Hi, all. I came here to get some DVD label copies made on their great Xerox printers. Wonderful results. Fantastic staff, very helpful and friendly. Great group of folks!
As it turns out, my old HP printer was on its last legs so I thought I'd pick something up. Never a huge HP fan, I found an Epson I liked. Worked with them before, great machines. Well, the on-line display software was sort of goofy and not very intuitive, so I went back to get something else. I was told about a great HP machine with a great deal. Sold. However, even though I was ready to buy, a rep for HP, let's call her Ms. K, started to go into a sales pitch worthy of a carnival barker. Mentioned I was buying but but Ms. K just had to go on and on about the greater than God aspects of HP while destroying any other printing company. She even slammed around some Epson printers on display to show their inferior products and made a not too subtle correlation that if you buy something inferior to her standards, you too, were inferior. OK then, finally got out of there.
I set it up, (and I've been in the print business for 30 years,) and everything was just too dark. Lots of people on-line had the same issues and there was no way to lighten the image. I'd have to open something up in Photoshop, lighten it and then print. Spent about an hour on the issue. But enough of that. I decided to take it back.
I parked at Office Depot, and there, under the florescent lights at the front of the store, I could see Ms. K from my car. I knew there would be a blood bath if she saw me bring this back. I went in without the printer sizing up the situation. I spoke to the manager Josh, (one of the GREATEST managers of any establishment of any kind,) and he noticed my PTSD I had earned from the night before with the verbose Ms. K. He told me not to worry about her. So we put the printer in a shopping cart and brought it in. Like a sniper's scope set on a homing beacon, she spotted me and I was in a fight or flight situation. I told her the printer was too big and we couldn't figure out where to put it. That bought me a few seconds. She reminded me since it's wireless it could be anyplace and I told her we're rearranging things. She said "if you get a small printer you're going to get crappy results, again." Little surprising since it too was an HP. I ignore her. The cost of the printer was given back as a gift card. I found a Canon Pixma on sale, (which was a fantastic choice - very happy,) and decided to come back the next day when she might be gone and get it. Fortunately another victim showed up and her pitch began and I used the gift card to get the Canon and get the hell out of there. I would have been honest with Ms. K about the print quality but I knew I would have gotten another lecture and I didn't want to take the chance of her pushing my buttons to the point of being just as rude.
Kudos to Josh and the rest of the staff in every respect. But watch out for Ms. K. When you walk near the printer section, start playing the theme to "Jaws" in your head and be very, very wary... read more