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To: Mini-14
Neither did the other 3,900 highly paid commissioned salespeople

Now, we are supposed to believe that $54,000 a year is a highly paid post? That's nights, weekends, holidays and I would venture to guess not much in the way of benefits.

I guess he just got too greedy, too comfortable in that lucrative, cushy Circuit City sales job.

2 posted on 06/30/2003 3:07:05 PM PDT by riri
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To: riri
Well from experience at CC between '94-'00 I watched the 'high paid' salaries go from around 95-100K to about 65K. And to make the lower salaries by 2000 the person doing it was selling about 30% more than he did in '94. Myself I maintained my salary in the audio dept of mid 40s but before I quit I was working longer days, and selling about 40% more myself than I did in '94
3 posted on 06/30/2003 3:12:00 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: riri
I guess he just got too greedy, too comfortable in that lucrative, cushy Circuit City sales job.

But the real problem, it seems to me, is with the type of job it is. Is this guy REALLY bringing in that much more money than a new hire off the street? I don't let salespeople talk me into buying much of anything, so an experienced person could sell me the "whatever" I've chosen just as well as some new guy who has been there 10 minutes.

The lesson is not to have a job that can, or *looks like it can, be taken over by some guy off the street. Sad for the guy, he worked hard, I'm sure.

7 posted on 06/30/2003 3:13:43 PM PDT by Dianna (space for rent)
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To: riri
Well, unless I mised it, the one thing this article does not mention is Cicuit City sales after the mass layoffs. That is poor journalism. All we have is a ten year comparison to Best Buy, which has cheaper employees.
8 posted on 06/30/2003 3:16:01 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (Let me tell you something, Johnson!)
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To: riri
If they were "highly" paid, based upon commissions i.e. sales, presumably they sold lots of stuff so why get rid of your best sales people ? This sounds more like a short term "fix" not long term. More fuzzy thinking from the ivory tower.
11 posted on 06/30/2003 3:20:39 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: riri
When the democrats speak of the rich, this is who they mean. Any family with both partners making 50 to 60 grand, are the "rich" the democrats curse all the time.
70 posted on 06/30/2003 4:39:04 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: riri
Now, we are supposed to believe that $54,000 a year is a highly paid post?

For that kind of job, it is. But I gotta tell you, if this means I should expect even less knowledgeable salespeople should I ever visit Circuit City again, the situation is DIRE! Good grief.

In the past, I've gotten CC to match the prices of other retailers, even Internet retailers, provided they were legitimate authorized dealers for the product at hand. Just before Christmas, I went to the local CC to buy a hi-def DirecTV receiver.

Their price was $100 higher than what I could buy it for on the net from an authorized dealer. I asked the salesperson to give me their best price on the unit.

She went to a calculator, figured full price plus tax, and read it out to me.

"No, your best price," I said. She looked at me as if she had not the slightest clue as to what I meant, so I asked if I could speak to the manager for just a moment.

She went to his office, came back, and said, "He wanna know what you want."

I explained that I wanted to talk to him about the price, to see if he'd like to give me just a little bit of a break so I could buy locally and still feel like I got a decent deal.

She left again, came back. "He say the price is on it."

I left. Stopped by a small state-based chain store on the way home, bought the same receiver for $50 under Internet price, which was $150 under CC.

MM

99 posted on 02/20/2004 6:53:35 PM PST by MississippiMan
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