1st Quarter
now that the first quarter is almost over do you think that Radioshack made a big diffrence in adds? do you think cingular's net adds will be higher **relatively anyway** than last year? Im all for cingular but i would like to see them beat verizon in adds for once!!!!what do you guys (and gals) think?
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I don't think radioshack has made a very large impact on cingular's numbers. Most employees are not all that bright and sell what they are comfortable with. Most radioshacks used to sell verizon and sprint. The introduction of the gsm system into their stores was chaos- I know- i was there. The store i worked at sold something like 60 sprint phones and 3 cingular. I don't think this helped cingular as much as it has helped sprint being that sprint is the only carrier they have that they are familiar with.
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chackens said:
I don't think radioshack has made a very large impact on cingular's numbers. Most employees are not all that bright and sell what they are comfortable with. Most radioshacks used to sell verizon and sprint. The introduction of the gsm system into their stores was chaos- I know- i was there. The store i worked at sold something like 60 sprint phones and 3 cingular. I don't think this helped cingular as much as it has helped sprint being that sprint is the only carrier they have that they are familiar with.
True, most radioshack reps i dealt with has only been recently and they were upgrading them from the old attws over to the new cingular plans.Heck i got like 8 reps in different market...
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Being an employee at RS, I agree we may not have made as big of a contribution as either RS or Cingy would have liked, but these things take time. My particular location is doing better with Cingy than we had been with VZW over the last 6 months.
In addition, our rep knows less about the phones and service than I do, so don't always blame RS's salespeople - a lot of them are dumb, but there are some of us who actually learn about what we sell. A rep who knows their stuff and actually helps the sales process would have gotten me a few extra sales....
In addition, our rep knows less about the phones and service than I do, so don't always blame RS's salespeople - a lot of them are dumb, but there are some of us who actually learn about what we sell. A rep who knows their stuff and actually helps the sales process would have gotten me a few extra sales....
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