Best Tech Showrooms in the World? Syntrend, Taipei, Taiwan
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,189 words · ~5 min read
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the old malls are dying lions and I have talked about this concept on the WAN
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show for years now especially in the tech space the idea of a big box store
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is crumbling stores like Best Buy are starting to dry up and disappear but
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that doesn't mean we don't need brick and mortar shops anymore I'm here to
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show you what I personally think could be the solution let me know if uh by
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click now to try it for free for quite
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some time now going to a big box electronic store has been rather
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inconvenient they very likely don't have what you're looking for other than a few
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Diamonds in the Rough their sales staff probably have no idea what they're
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talking about and they just going to fire off specs from the same little card
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that list the price which probably isn't very low anyways the staff are also
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likely on commission and are going to try to upsell you at every opportunity
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and Gabe and forbid you ever get on the topic of a service plan because you
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might not get out alive but can you blame them they're probably underpaid
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it's very possible that these sales employees at a big box store are at or
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below the poverty line and they probably need their commission gains to get by a
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shy situation for both of you overpriced product uninformed sales staff limited
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selection aggressive and pushy sales tactics often a waste of time and money
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with a hefty side serving of frustration and annoyance this has pushed a lot of
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the techy crowd to smaller Boutique shops mom and pop stores and the on
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online etail Solutions but the showroom idea is still nice a lot of the time we
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want to see a product in person before we buy it and The Limited selection of
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the small stores and the inherent website nature of an eil
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don't allow for that type of interaction enter sin Trend the potential Saving
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Grace of brick and mortar during the reign of Amazon and various other eilers
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the focus of s Trend creative park or the S Trend Mall seems to be a showroom
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style experience for new products with a heavy focus on comfort and relaxation
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everyone I asked working in a shop was clear and open with the fact that they
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won't really be having special sales and they'll be selling everything at MSRP
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because of this they know you're probably going to go find a better price
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somewhere else especially considering there is a really cheap Tech Mall
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literally connected to the same building they don't need to be pushy for a sale
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because sales aren't their metric the companies involved ranged quite a bit
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but the main PC and mobile tech guys I noticed were MSI ASUS Intel Acer Lenovo
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tiiba HP Sony HTC Sennheiser transcend
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and Razer and that's just a few of what is actually there the floor layout was
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split into categories the first floor floor was mainly mobile the second floor
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was mostly computer hardware and accessories the third floor was cameras
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the fourth floor was more camera stuff mostly focused on accessories and also
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some speakers the fifth floor was audio file headphones the sixth floor was
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mostly like figurines with Gundams and stuff like that and the seventh floor
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was little kid and toddler stuff with some other various things scattered
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throughout like 3D printers on the second floor and this crazy cool racing
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simulator thing where you actually put on a full racing suit which didn't
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really fit me but then get into the racing simulator which cost
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$50,000 but then while you go around corners and stuff the whole thing will
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lift you around and move you and whatnot and it's super cool and you can
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apparently get an actual racing license there if you take a course and blah blah
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blah anyways that was cool and that's all the floors for now but in the future
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they'll be opening five more floors the eighth being explore the ninth being
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dine the 10th being dream the 11th being make and the 12th being show whatever
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those actually mean on the first floor Intel was set up showing a wide range of
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products and for fun they had these two racing Sims set up which were wild a
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racing chair and racing wheel hooked up to three massive TVs for an amazing
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panoramic Racing Experience again just for fun moving upstairs though is where
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the real fun started Floor 2 was definitely for me stores up here ranged
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in styles from just being a straightup boutique gallery to stuff like a Seuss
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who has a comfy couch set up where people can learn how to use their various products with trained staff that
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will also host your birthday party for you if you're a customer and give you
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cake and presents so random but also so
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awesome my favorite store however was the razor store and I'd say it was the
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most popular store there as well they had everything there from various
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potential razor gear setups along the outer walls to a a laptop land a desktop
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land and even a console fighting game area tucked away in the corner the vibe
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here was great and they had it going on with a huge range of casual tournaments
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and a super welcoming environment people are encouraged to just hang out as long
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as they would like and much like the rest of the stores in this mall the
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sales counter was Tiny and mostly ignored by patrons and staff because
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that just wasn't the point I could definitely see myself going to one of
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these little stores if there was one locally for the amateur tournaments
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especially the Hearthstone Fireside G togethers which are awesome let me know
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what you guys think in the comments down below or over on the Forum would you
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like a mall like this near you or maybe just one of the specific stores thanks
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