“Following up on the launch difference between AT&T and Apple stores, we’ve got three separate accounts of people reporting that AT&T is forcing them to buy accessories along with their iPhone at three different AT&T stores. This was definitely not the case at Apple stores, and for AT&T to decide this on their own to cash in on the launch is pretty damn shady,” Jason Chen reports for Gizmodo.
Chen reports, “The first comes from the University Village AT&T store at 4626 25th Ave NE, Seattle, WA (Phone 206-729-7184). When buying the iPhone yesterday, the store said all customers must by two accessories with an iPhone, but the accessories could be returned, opened, without a restocking fee. Add to that the fact that the salesman didn’t even know a charger was included and tried to upsell a different charger to the reader.”
Full article, with more examples, here.
This following our recent report that some AT&T stores were refusing to even show Apple’s iPhone to customers who asked to see it! It has been our experience that AT&T, in most everything to do with iPhone – from launch, activation, sales, network speed, network coverage, etc. – has been the shit in Apple’s otherwise pretty much delicious sandwich (not a perfect sandwich – what is? – but one that we expect to get even better-tasting, for free, with future software/firmware updates). Anyone who expected AT&T employees to suddenly stop acting like pushy used car salesmen and start acting like helpful human beings (like most Apple Store employees) was probably expecting way too much.
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