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Old 04-20-2007, 07:22 PM   #9
stxopher
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Originally Posted by tapf!
I also liked the c|net video review:
Jimminy! Was that guy a salesman or what! If you didn't see it originally, go see it now. Seriously. Listen to such high pressure sales tactics like:

"You could take it with you on vacation I suppose."<--in a tone of voice questioning why you would want to. Or this gem:

"Yes, there's always ghosting but it shouldn't affect the reading much." (But I don't want any Spam!....spam, spam, spam....er, sorry.)

Watch now and you can find out all the ways to get content: "It gets it's content from the online store." Whoa! Slow down, Spanky! I can't handle all this information!

Actually, I think they just got some guy off the street, gave him a clean shirt and pamphlet, 5 minutes to read it and said "Rolling in 5...4...3..."

And don't forget to read the customer reviews (especially the bad ones). A couple that stand out are "it's to light" and "I don't like eBooks". And of course you will find several instances of "the only source of any content is Connect which is generally customer unfriendly and woefully short of books at a decent price". Well, okay, that last statement at least has some accuracy in it.

(Thanks for bringing this one back up. I missed it the first time and now it seems pretty funny. In fact, I think I'll grab another ginger ale and watch it again.)
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