<story><title>Apple introduces Apple Pay Later</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>Oh it gets better than that, I walked into the store and asked to buy a MacBook Air.&lt;p&gt;The first clerk disappears, and some kid who is roughly 19 starts lecturing me about how much better the pro is. I politely respond, I just want to buy the Air.&lt;p&gt;He insists, &amp;#x27;well , do you want to make music &amp;#x27;. I respond, &amp;#x27;please sell me the Air&amp;#x27;. At this point he&amp;#x27;s not budging. I ask a final time, and ask why are you making this interaction so difficult.&lt;p&gt;Him: &amp;#x27;well you&amp;#x27;re making it difficult&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;I walk out and go to Best Buy. At Best Buy I simply asked to buy an Air, and I was out in 5 minutes.&lt;p&gt;Now truth be told, if the kid would have told me he needs to push a certain number of pros per month, I might have said okay and brought one. But instead he decided to insult me, I even explained that as a software engineer I knew exactly what I was talking about. I shouldn&amp;#x27;t need to explain anything when I&amp;#x27;m trying to buy a product, it&amp;#x27;s none of your business if I prefer an M1 air because I routinely dropped my laptops. If it&amp;#x27;s a gift for someone else, or in reality it does the job I need it to do.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m legitimately never going into an Apple store again after this.</text></item><item><author>wincy</author><text>That’s crazy! I use my M1 Air for everything and it’s excellent. I would have asked to talk to his manager.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very easy for this to push people into buying more than they need.&lt;p&gt;90% of people are fine with an M1 Air, the last time I went to an Apple store the sales clerk straight up refused to sell me one. He basically told me I didn&amp;#x27;t know what I was talking about and kept trying to sell me a pro.&lt;p&gt;I asked him 3 times to sell me an Air, and ended up leaving in frustration. Not before he pitched buying a pro on an Apple line of credit instead.&lt;p&gt;If I come into a store and tell you what I want to buy, we&amp;#x27;re not having a conversation. You have no idea what or who I&amp;#x27;m buying it for.&lt;p&gt;Best Buy doesn&amp;#x27;t do this, I was able to get my Air without an argument and walk out.&lt;p&gt;If anything, this pay later stuff will make the issue worse. You&amp;#x27;ll go into the Apple store to be told you might as well get the most expensive thing they have in stock, it&amp;#x27;s zero down anyway!</text></item><item><author>Ocerge</author><text>My laptop died recently, and I went with an M2 MBP.  I went in expecting to pay it in full, but with no interest&amp;#x2F;fees, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I choose this?  It beats inflation, even if only minimally.&lt;p&gt;Seems predatory towards people who are buying stuff they can&amp;#x27;t afford, otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t see how they make money (minus the overpriced laptop I just bought, I guess).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwinnski</author><text>That is shocking to me, and you&amp;#x27;d be doing everybody else a favor if you let the store know about it, so that guy can be terminated or at least retrained. I&amp;#x27;ve never had an experience anything like that, and I know that&amp;#x27;s not the norm at Apple stores. Wow!</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple introduces Apple Pay Later</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>Oh it gets better than that, I walked into the store and asked to buy a MacBook Air.&lt;p&gt;The first clerk disappears, and some kid who is roughly 19 starts lecturing me about how much better the pro is. I politely respond, I just want to buy the Air.&lt;p&gt;He insists, &amp;#x27;well , do you want to make music &amp;#x27;. I respond, &amp;#x27;please sell me the Air&amp;#x27;. At this point he&amp;#x27;s not budging. I ask a final time, and ask why are you making this interaction so difficult.&lt;p&gt;Him: &amp;#x27;well you&amp;#x27;re making it difficult&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;I walk out and go to Best Buy. At Best Buy I simply asked to buy an Air, and I was out in 5 minutes.&lt;p&gt;Now truth be told, if the kid would have told me he needs to push a certain number of pros per month, I might have said okay and brought one. But instead he decided to insult me, I even explained that as a software engineer I knew exactly what I was talking about. I shouldn&amp;#x27;t need to explain anything when I&amp;#x27;m trying to buy a product, it&amp;#x27;s none of your business if I prefer an M1 air because I routinely dropped my laptops. If it&amp;#x27;s a gift for someone else, or in reality it does the job I need it to do.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m legitimately never going into an Apple store again after this.</text></item><item><author>wincy</author><text>That’s crazy! I use my M1 Air for everything and it’s excellent. I would have asked to talk to his manager.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very easy for this to push people into buying more than they need.&lt;p&gt;90% of people are fine with an M1 Air, the last time I went to an Apple store the sales clerk straight up refused to sell me one. He basically told me I didn&amp;#x27;t know what I was talking about and kept trying to sell me a pro.&lt;p&gt;I asked him 3 times to sell me an Air, and ended up leaving in frustration. Not before he pitched buying a pro on an Apple line of credit instead.&lt;p&gt;If I come into a store and tell you what I want to buy, we&amp;#x27;re not having a conversation. You have no idea what or who I&amp;#x27;m buying it for.&lt;p&gt;Best Buy doesn&amp;#x27;t do this, I was able to get my Air without an argument and walk out.&lt;p&gt;If anything, this pay later stuff will make the issue worse. You&amp;#x27;ll go into the Apple store to be told you might as well get the most expensive thing they have in stock, it&amp;#x27;s zero down anyway!</text></item><item><author>Ocerge</author><text>My laptop died recently, and I went with an M2 MBP.  I went in expecting to pay it in full, but with no interest&amp;#x2F;fees, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I choose this?  It beats inflation, even if only minimally.&lt;p&gt;Seems predatory towards people who are buying stuff they can&amp;#x27;t afford, otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t see how they make money (minus the overpriced laptop I just bought, I guess).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tarsul</author><text>Maybe the clerk was just a bad apple?</text></comment>