To which I replied that I wanted to take note of the price and asked him if he was interested in making a sale or not. Only the price tag, with the model number and going price.īut before I could take this particular shot, a store attendant walked in front of me (he’d been standing just besides the set in question) and told me (without so much as a “Sir” or any other form of courtesy) that I couldn’t take photographs inside the store, in a way that some people might even consider rude.

Today, just after lunch, I walked into the FNAC store at Vasco da Gama and spotted a nice promotion on an LG LCD I hadn’t even been considering as yet, so I naturally got out my iPhone, stepped up to the TV and tried to take a snapshot of the price tag. Some taken in other FNAC stores, some in Worten and around half in other retailers, and all of them complemented with manufacturer info, etc. Thanks to Evernote’s OCR, I can search the photos by make and model number, which is great, and for the record, after culling and organizing three month’s worth of patient searching stuff into a notebook, I have something like fifty annotated photos of TV sets and associated price tags in Evernote by now. But it can’t be just any TV, because after nearly eight years and two home renovations, I’ve decided that it’s time to spend a considerable amount of money on something that will both let me watch Blu-Ray movies and last me a good while yet, so I’ve been patiently browsing through just about every store in Lisbon and taking note of prices, features, etc.Īnd I’m doing it with Evernote on my iPhone, of course, since I can just snap away and collate all the info at home at my leisure.

I’m on the market for a new TV set, you see. I don’t usually blog during lunchtime, but I thought this kind of inane stupidity ought to go on permanent record.

3 min read On Evernote, FNAC customer service, and lack of tech savvy and courtesy thereof.

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