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Originally Posted by samhy
- "we're not going to display it because there's already an Aura HD and that's pretty much the same thing but smaller."
- "no it's not, for one thing one has an IR screen whereas the other has a capacitive one which is new to Kobo."
- "true."
- "so you want people to buy a 150€ ereader without knowing how the screen looks like nor how the device registers touches?"
- "well, it's just a little smaller than the Aura HD"
- "first comments state it's not that much bigger than a Mini"
- "a Mini?!?"
- "well the Aura is slightly smaller than the Glo, isn't it?"
- "yes. Well there's still no need to display.
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Very similar to my experience last time I was in Germany and tried to see the mini in an electronics store. They displayed it, but without having it registered first, it was stuck on the register screen, so I could not play around with it. The guy there refused to connect it to their (locked) Wifi network, saying that it was the exact same thing as the KT next to it. He kept saying "not necessary" and I kept saying "so you DON'T WANT to do it even though you are standing right here, next to a customer interested in buying one"? This went on and on until he lost it and said "yes, I don't want to do it".
I left the store emptyhanded. Thing is, letting me see it in action would have given them a sale for sure.
No wonder Amazon is winning over brick and mortar stores.