I still consider the 2.5 hours I spent in one yesterday, stolen from my life. We went to buy smart phones which we needed after having continental and connectivity problems last week.
I did my usual shopping mall coping strategy.
1. Go straight to the store where the item I need to buy is located.
2. Don't look right.
3. Don't look left.
4. Pretend I'm somewhere else
Did I mention I hate shopping and am shopping phobic?
All that stuff. That awful stuff!
If I don't fight it, I imagine it coming out of the stores and smothering me. Worse, it might come home with me to clutter and destroy whatever simple harmony I've established.
I will say the SFR customer service woman was helpful.
And one good thing did happen. As we were leaving I saw a chair that was also a book exchange and had a nice chat with the woman sitting there.
One good thing came out of it. My husband is happy with our new phones.
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I feel your shopping pain.
I no longer get my phone from my service provider. They tie you into a two year contract and the after sales service is no better than from any other sales outlet.
My current phone, which I bought more than a year ago, is a WIKO FEVER. It was just before my trip to the US and this phone has dual SIM slots, so I could keep my SFR SIM card in it and add a Tracfone card for when I was in the States and not have to deal with two phones or transferring cards and risk losing one. I'm very happy with this phone. It cost well under €200 and when my husband bought the same phone a few months after me, it was even less. I think what convinced me was when I asked the sales guy at FNAC if the phone had enough memory (or some similar kind of question) he pulled his out of his pocket. I figured if he had that phone, with all the choices, it couldn't be bad.
I'm always delighted to find someone else who hates shopping malls, and shopping. I find myself in malls only a very few times a year, mostly when in the US (because it's easier and faster for me then shopping in a foreign country)-- when I make a clothes run for either summer or winter. Having lived in a number of third-world countries seeing poverty close up, all this stuff, stuff, stuff, often seems obscene. Then again, I do get seduced at times, because, well, some stuff it lovely ;)
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