The boomerang sale
We were a salesperson’s dream – we had money to burn. My husband’s employer had given him a chunk of money to spend freely after reaching a significant years-of-service milestone. The big purchase? A new stereo system. My college stereo system (circa 1992) didn’t integrate with today’s technology. After reading online reviews and window shopping for the past few years, my husband was eager to buy. Soon, our living room was full of boxes, cables, packing materials and some cool new technology. Then came the hard part. For four futile hours we tried to set it up and integrate the new gadgets with our existing equipment. Normally I am savvy with electronics and figuring out how to properly connect wires and cables, but by midnight I had lost all excitement about our new purchase. I stared at the technical manual and tried to make sense of the instructions. I read and reread the sections that seemed to match our tasks. After a frustrating week of tinkering, we packed the boxes back up and