Sprint no longer to be sold at Best Buy

In article <rmarkoff-70F460.06202922032004
@news1.west.earthlink.net>, Robert [email protected]=20
says...
> OK, how many phones has SprintPCS sold at Citcuit City in the last year?
> It's Zero !!
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Check the thread title again, Phillie. This isn't about=20
Circuit City.

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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

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In article <rmarkoff-006BAA.09354822032004
@news1.west.earthlink.net>, Robert [email protected]=20
says...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (TechGeek) wrote:
>=20
> > Will they lose
> > sales? They'll lose some
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> Vargas refuses to admit that.
>=20

You're lying, Phillie. Again.

I said it wasn't a foregone conclusion.

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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

In article <[email protected]>,
O/Siris <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <rmarkoff-006BAA.09354822032004
> @news1.west.earthlink.net>, Robert [email protected]
> says...
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > [email protected] (TechGeek) wrote:
> >
> > > Will they lose
> > > sales? They'll lose some
> >
> > Vargas refuses to admit that.
> >
>
> You're lying. Again.
>
> I said it wasn't a foregone conclusion.


Thank you. You just proved I'm right. Tech Geek admits sales will
be lost.

In article <[email protected]>,
O/Siris <0sîrîs@sprîntpcs.côm> wrote:

> In article <rmarkoff-70F460.06202922032004
> @news1.west.earthlink.net>, Robert [email protected]
> says...
> > OK, how many phones has SprintPCS sold at Citcuit City in the last year?
> > It's Zero !!
> >
> >
> Check the thread title again. This isn't about
> Circuit City.

Sorry you're not the Usenet Moderator.
SprintPCS will lose sales at bestBuy (even tech Geek says so)., Sprint
previously lost sales at Circuit City as CC doesn't even sell Sprint
phones anymore.

But as the sprint cheerleader you are, you can't face that fact.

"Robert M." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> O/Siris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In article <rmarkoff-006BAA.09354822032004
> > @news1.west.earthlink.net>, Robert [email protected]
> > says...
> > > In article <[email protected]>,
> > > [email protected] (TechGeek) wrote:
> > >
> > > > Will they lose
> > > > sales? They'll lose some
> > >
> > > Vargas refuses to admit that.
> > >
> >
> > You're lying. Again.
> >
> > I said it wasn't a foregone conclusion.
>
>
> Thank you. You just proved I'm right. Tech Geek admits sales will
> be lost.

Phillipe, WHEN are YOU going to PROVE your point, about a reduction of total
SPCS handsets sold nationwide, because handsets are no longer sold at CC?

Bob

In article <[email protected]>,=20
[email protected] says...
> Thank you. You just proved I'm right. Tech Geek admits sales will
> be lost.
>=20

I just proved, again, that you're a liar.

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R=D8=DF
O/Siris
I work for Sprint PCS
I *don't* speak for them

In article <[email protected]>,=20
[email protected] says...
> Sorry you're not the Usenet Moderator.

Follow your own advice, hypocrite. You don't get to change the=20
subject just because you wish it.

> SprintPCS will lose sales at bestBuy (even tech Geek says so)., Sprint=20
> previously lost sales at Circuit City as CC doesn't even sell Sprint=20
> phones anymore.

You're the only one trying to narrow the conversation to this silly=20
degree, Philly. We haven't sold a phone within the New Baden, IL=20
city limits, either. Is that, too, a statement of SPCS's economic=20
health?

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> But as the sprint cheerleader you are, you can't face that fact.
>=20

No, we just prefer to carry on a conversation.

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R=D8=DF
O/Siris
I work for Sprint PCS
I *don't* speak for them

In article <[email protected]>,
O/Siris <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
> > Thank you. You just proved I'm right. Tech Geek admits sales will
> > be lost.
> >
>
> I just proved, again, that you're a liar.


Robert J Vargas, the embarressment of SprintPCS. If you try to tell him
that sales of SprintPCS will decrease at BestBuy (which even Tech Geek
admits to) he calls one a LIAR.

In article <[email protected]>,
O/Siris <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
> > Sorry you're not the Usenet Moderator.
>
> Follow your own advice, hypocrite. You don't get to change the
> subject just because you wish it.


Reduced sales for Sprint is the subject.
>
> > SprintPCS will lose sales at bestBuy (even tech Geek says so)., Sprint
> > previously lost sales at Circuit City as CC doesn't even sell Sprint
> > phones anymore.
>
> You're the only one trying to narrow the conversation to this silly
> degree, Philly. We haven't sold a phone within the New Baden, IL
> city limits, either. Is that, too, a statement of SPCS's economic
> health?
>
> >
> > But as the sprint cheerleader you are, you can't face that fact.
> >
>
> No, we just prefer to carry on a conversation.


The embarressment of SprintPCS - thats you.

Robert M. wrote:


> Fine, but if SprintPCS is longer having it's phones sold at Circuit
> City, and is now assured of decreased sales at BestBuy, it's not a good
> thing. Phone sales are only so fungible.

Robert, once again you are creating your own facts.

First off, the only person who has asserted that sales will drop at Best
Buy is you.

Second, if people want a Sprint phone, they will get a Sprint
phone.Considering that there is service and a rate plan attached to it,
people interested in wireless phones have a tendency to do a little
research before getting one, or acting on someone else's recommendation.
They do not just blindly walk into any old store, plunk down their
cash and say "give me one cell phone, please." Thus, if someone decides
to go with Sprint, then they will go to Best Buy, or Radio Shack, or a
Sprint or affiliate store, or a third party retailer, OR order it by
phone or online. The retail sales channel for Sprint is far from closed.


> I remember when Atari in 1984 said it would make no difference in its
> sales if KMart no longer carried their computers.

And it didn't. Atari's demise wasn't because Kmart made a decision to
stop selling home computers. It happened because the company broke
itself into pieces that same year and sold the computer/console division
to Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore (who then did a smashing job
of killing that division), and the games division was sold to Time
Warner (who knew nothing about computer games and did a smashing job of
suffocating THAT divison).


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In article <[email protected]>,=20
[email protected] says...
> Robert J Vargas, the embarressment of SprintPCS. If you try to tell him=
=20
> that sales of SprintPCS will decrease at BestBuy (which even Tech Geek=20
> admits to) he calls one a LIAR.
>=20

Changing the subject all over again. The last refuge of the=20
dishonest.

You *just* got done saying the subject was sales of SPCS phones. And=20
here you are going BACK adding that silly condition of "at Best Buy."

THAT is why you're a liar.

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R=D8=DF
O/Siris
I work for Sprint PCS
I *don't* speak for them

In article <[email protected]>,
Isaiah Beard <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> First off, the only person who has asserted that sales will drop at Best
> Buy is you.

WRONG. Tech Geek did also.

"Robert M." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Isaiah Beard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > First off, the only person who has asserted that sales will drop at Best
> > Buy is you.
>
> WRONG. Tech Geek did also.


First of all, there is no way to know if Best Buy itself will see a
loss in sales. I don't work for them, I haven't seen the projections,
so I don't know.

Second, Sprint will lose a few activations, mainly because if someone
doesn't know that Best Buy is no longer selling PCS phones, and the
sales person sells them into something different.

You've been complaining that Sprint needs to cust costs. All wireless
providers pay to have their phones represented in these chain stores,
along with more is paid out to the store for each new activation.

Say Sprint spends / spent $5,000,000 (rough guess, but it's probabaly
more than that) a year on this though Best Buy.

Now, (again, ROUGH GUESS) say they lose 1,000 "new activations" on a
slightly above average monthly plan of $75 each, that's $5 million
saved as opposed to $75,000 lost. You can even go very high and say
Sprint loses 10,000 activations a year, and that's still only $750,000
lost.

Also, when Circuit City stopped selling the PCS phones, the retail
stores in the area did see an increase in sales, so not all the
potentials form there were lost.

Since there is a good saturation of Sprint PCS stores around (with
more being opened up every year), representation in these stores may
not be needed. (and I'm 99% sure Best Buy still intends on selling
Virgin Mobile phones).

So, in a nutshell, Sprint will lose some new activations, but it will
save a lot more $$$ in the end.

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (TechGeek) wrote:

> You've been complaining that Sprint needs to cust costs.

SprintPCS has said that, not I. I think by having customer friendly CSRs
that arent hampered by restrictive handle times, and upsell quotas,
Sprint could reduce its churn.

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (TechGeek) wrote:

> Also, when Circuit City stopped selling the PCS phones, the retail
> stores in the area did see an increase in sales, so not all the
> potentials form there were lost.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy, if you ever took Logic in
college.