Payton Byrd wrote:
A former colleague used to be a technical sales rep for Apple back in the 1980's in Florida. They ONLY targeted the school market. He said that their biggest selling tool was strip clubs.
Salesmen seem to degenerate to the lowest common denominator unless provided with strict adult supervision--which was never a strong suit in the early Apple Corp. ;-) Put another way, since the only metric generally applied to salesmen is the quantity of sales, if left unchecked they tend to stoop to anything to get a sale. "Bribery? What's your problem?" -michael NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."