Store reps out there!
How'd the Storm debut go? Were there lines out there? How were customers? I'm glad I work in CS that I didn't have to deal with them face to face. I know some customers had to be furious about not getting one
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The launch sucked. We got 1/3 of the quantity of phones we expected, the OS on the device was slow, e-mail wouldn't activate, we had NO accessories for it (except the car charger), and one of our demo phones is already shot.
When most of the sales reps showed up at 6:30, there were already about 30+ people in line. By the time we opened, the line was about double. We sold out of our Storms in 30 minutes.
People who stood line line were ticked that we didn't have enough phones - the phone we've been hyping for two months straight, been denying for most of the year, spent millions of dollars on advertising and gimicky internal marketing products (umbrellas, for instance), and billed as our largest phone launch ever. We had more 8830 ...
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When most of the sales reps showed up at 6:30, there were already about 30+ people in line. By the time we opened, the line was about double. We sold out of our Storms in 30 minutes.
People who stood line line were ticked that we didn't have enough phones - the phone we've been hyping for two months straight, been denying for most of the year, spent millions of dollars on advertising and gimicky internal marketing products (umbrellas, for instance), and billed as our largest phone launch ever. We had more 8830 ...
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