Comments on: Is Pairing A Bluetooth Headset To your Mobile Phone Worth $10? http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10 The Official, Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:42:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: REV http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115731 REV Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:38:30 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115731 Well, I guess that is the issue - is BB holding themselves out as simply "saving you a few minutes of headache", or are they trying to mislead folks into thinking that BT pairing is some highly complex process that should be properly performed by a "professional"? If it's the former, that's cool, I guess. If it's the latter, that's a PR nightmare waiting to happen. I equivocate this to charging people $79.99 (or whatever) to install Vista on their PC. They've gotten away with that for a long time. A waste of money, IMO, but perhaps it's worth it to someone who's really not tech-savvy at all and wants some piece of mind that it was done right. Well, I guess that is the issue - is BB holding themselves out as simply “saving you a few minutes of headache”, or are they trying to mislead folks into thinking that BT pairing is some highly complex process that should be properly performed by a “professional”?

If it’s the former, that’s cool, I guess. If it’s the latter, that’s a PR nightmare waiting to happen.

I equivocate this to charging people $79.99 (or whatever) to install Vista on their PC. They’ve gotten away with that for a long time. A waste of money, IMO, but perhaps it’s worth it to someone who’s really not tech-savvy at all and wants some piece of mind that it was done right.

]]> By: Robb Dunewood http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115717 Robb Dunewood Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:18:00 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115717 I look at pairing bluetooth like setting the clock on a VCR. It isn't really hard to do, however, you would just rather ask someone to do it for than to take the 5 minutes to RTFM and do it yourself. Most of the people that would use this service probably are buying new headsets to pair with existing phones and would rather pay the $10 to have the store do it versus have to come home and google their owners manual for their phone and doing it themselves. I look at pairing bluetooth like setting the clock on a VCR. It isn’t really hard to do, however, you would just rather ask someone to do it for than to take the 5 minutes to RTFM and do it yourself.

Most of the people that would use this service probably are buying new headsets to pair with existing phones and would rather pay the $10 to have the store do it versus have to come home and google their owners manual for their phone and doing it themselves.

]]> By: crazylegs http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115715 crazylegs Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:08:54 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115715 What a rip-off! I'll do it for $9! What a rip-off! I’ll do it for $9!

]]> By: Fletchi18 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115713 Fletchi18 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:48:33 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115713 I do it for people at work all of the time. Most of the time, because all headsets have their own somewhat quirky way of going into pairing mode, I just end up reading the instruction manual. Definitely just lazy people out there. But hey, if BB can make a buck off of laziness, why not? It's the same thing as a lawn service. Just people who are too lazy to take care of their own lawn...or sprinkler systems. I do it for people at work all of the time. Most of the time, because all headsets have their own somewhat quirky way of going into pairing mode, I just end up reading the instruction manual. Definitely just lazy people out there.
But hey, if BB can make a buck off of laziness, why not? It’s the same thing as a lawn service. Just people who are too lazy to take care of their own lawn…or sprinkler systems.

]]> By: REV http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115712 REV Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:44:13 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115712 Frankly, I have more disdain for folks who would throw away the ten bucks rather than simply read the directions and take the 45 seconds to pair the headset themselves. If they're using the headset for driving, it's like they wasted 2.5 gallons worth of gas out of sheer laziness. Frankly, I have more disdain for folks who would throw away the ten bucks rather than simply read the directions and take the 45 seconds to pair the headset themselves.

If they’re using the headset for driving, it’s like they wasted 2.5 gallons worth of gas out of sheer laziness.

]]> By: bluehorseshoe http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115710 bluehorseshoe Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:08:13 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/is-pairing-a-bluetooth-headset-to-your-mobile-phone-worth-10#comment-115710 Crooks. Yet another reason why I don't shop there. Overpriced and the selection sucks. Crooks. Yet another reason why I don’t shop there. Overpriced and the selection sucks.

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