01-31-2007, 07:13 AM
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:40:44 -0500, Roger Zoul wrote:
> if your local REI is not new, then they have a trained sales force.
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> is your local performance store really a bike shop? Or, are they something
> else? I've never been in one, so I'm not sure how to view them. I guess if
> you walk into a store with only cycling stuff and bikes, you expect bike
> shop. But can you expect to quickly get a sales force of people with
> cycling experience?
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> Give them time....plus, you don't need much support anyhow! 
Odd thing is that Performance is bike-only, while REI is general outdoors
stuff. I have been very happy with my no-longer-really-local REI, and
still would consider taking a repair job I couldn't handle to them. I did
that in the past, and was very satisfied. Oddly, the one time I took such
a repair job to a high-zoot local shop (in Radnor, PA -- those who know
them will understand), I got terrible service.
But the quality of Performance sales/repair people varies with, well, the
people. The one nearest to me is staffed by riders, so they do know what
they are doing.
--
David L. Johnson
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach
a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
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