I find, with salespeople, that I tend to have the assumption that they will not in fact actually be helpful, and this colors my desire to talk to them. On the other hand, every so often I find that the salespeople are actually knowledgeable and have useful information that I can't get just from looking around the store, and I wonder why I was reluctant to talk to them. (This happened tonight at the paint store I went to; somehow, I wasn't expecting the counterperson to give me other than a blank look when I asked about the "Petal number 7" paint color that was on the paint company website but not on their actual paint samples. I was wrong -- and they're going to call the salesrep in the morning to get the recipe for it, since their machine didn't have it. It's a very pretty purple, about halfway between an eggplant and a lilac.)
I think a fair bit of it, though, is that generally I want to be making decisions, and I can't do that very well while interacting with someone.
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:14 am (UTC)I think a fair bit of it, though, is that generally I want to be making decisions, and I can't do that very well while interacting with someone.