Reply #15: In selling psychology, you don't pull out the good stuff to start with [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

because you have nowhere to go from there.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "costume" jewelry cost most of us a day's or even week's wages. Condi would not have gone shopping wearing jeans and a sweatshirt - it would be obvious she had money. So you start with something fairly basic to guage what the customer wants, build up expectation by presenting ever more expensive merchandise, and close at the highest possible level. That's how it's done at all levels, from personal service at a jewelry store to the way they line up TVs at Wal-Mart.

Also, there's no mention of what the clerk said - probably something more on the line of 'snooty bitch' than anything racial.

The clerk was just doing her job. And Condi IS a bitch.