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Compliment from an Dead Sea Kiosk SA

post #1 of 15
12/15/08 at 8:27am
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I got a compliment from a gal working at a Dead Sea Lotion Kiosk. I was wearing Anteaus. Do you guys think it was a real comment or a sales gimmick?

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post #2 of 15
12/15/08 at 8:34am
All I know is I usually avoid that Kiosk like the plague!!! Everytime I am near it I am nearly accosted by the SA to try whatever they're peddling. I realize they have to be aggressive to get sales, but come on, "no thank you" should be the end of it. Let me go for pete's sake!!!

The Kiosk is located near a Perfumania, and the gals in there tell me they get a lot of complaints about them. They even say that the Dead Sea Lotion girls will come in their store and constantly ask them if a particular fragrance is real or not.

Sorry; I didn't mean to turn your thread into a rant.

At any rate, I'm willing to bet that the SA was trying to make a sale.
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post #3 of 15
12/15/08 at 9:02am
The one in Prudential Center in Boston constantly tells me how good looking I am. I know that if I actually bought some I'd get much better looking in her eyes.
These guys are the most pushy kiosk attendants I've come across recently. When I see them in other malls I give them a wide berth.
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post #4 of 15
12/15/08 at 9:10am
Its hard to know....because I dont know that kiosk....but probably was an strategy.
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post #5 of 15
12/15/08 at 10:05am
Definitely a strategy. Flattery is always the cheap way to get on someone's good side, imho.

Like others, my experience with these Dead Sea kiosks is pretty poor. Don't make eye contact!
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post #6 of 15
12/15/08 at 11:20am
I got suckered by one of them. I still have whatever it was I bought in my cabinet. I avoid the kiosks now.

Once one approached me saying "Can I ask you a question?" I responded by saying "No." She said "Are you scared of me?" I just walked off.

Getting a compliment on your fragrance is probably a sales pitch by these people.
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post #7 of 15
12/15/08 at 12:01pm
Well, what was the compliment?
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post #8 of 15
12/15/08 at 2:59pm
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That might help.

She said it just like this. "What's that Perfume?" She liked it.

As she was putting lotion on my arm.
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post #9 of 15
12/15/08 at 3:02pm
There was an article about them in the Wall Street Journal ; a sales pitch for sure.
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post #10 of 15
12/15/08 at 3:34pm
Well, now you can say
"I met this girl last weekend, but we had to end it. She only liked me for my money."
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post #11 of 15
12/15/08 at 3:52pm
Those kiosks are scary as heck.

It was almost certainly a sales pitch, and you should flee them like the plague. I practice a special poisonous glare to cast at them if they try to approach me. Also, I plug in my noise-canceling earphones and blast loud music when I walk by.
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post #12 of 15
12/15/08 at 4:49pm
Here's the article ; you may need to register.
Shalom, Christmas Shoppers: Israelis Sell Cosmetics, Toys at the Mall
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122826483720274329.html
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post #13 of 15
12/15/08 at 4:57pm
Yeah, those Dead Sea SA's will blow you to try and get your attention/buy their product. Don't read much into their compliments, at all.
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post #14 of 15
12/15/08 at 8:13pm
I would like to throw another log on the fire and say that it is an extremely safe assumption that any compliment given by someone running a Dead Sea kiosk was made in an effort to ring up a sale. These kiosks, as others have noted, have the most openly forceful, rude, and abrasive sales tactics I have ever come across.
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post #15 of 15
12/15/08 at 8:48pm
I was in the Houston Galleria and was trying to walk from Nordstrom to Neiman Marcus when this Dead Sea SA attacked me. I had some time to kill and indulged her obnoxious behavior. She buffed my finger nails on one hand and then tried to sell me the buffer. I said, thanks but I always go out for a manicure. She was speechless, believe it or not.
What on earth are they preparing these teens for? I guess what plays well in Tel Aviv doesn't always play so well in middle America.
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