O2 Store

A phone shop? Why review a phone shop? — because not all phone shops are created equal!
This little gem is a throwback to the times when small shops were scattered around Dublin and had at their heart the owner serving behind the till keeping his business and customers happy.
The owner of this store is a real class act compared with the spotty teenagers at other stores. I had lost my phone and as it was a particularly quiet day he spent ages looking after me and arranging things with O2. My phone wasn’t insured but I was so impressed by this gentleman that in return I bought one of the cheaper models on display to keep me going.
As I said, a class act and thoroughly refreshing to not be immediately dismissed as just another poor student.
Cheers again!

If you’re hankering for an iPhone, or a similarly desirable phone gizmo this Chirstmas and they’re sold out of it everywhere in town, there’s a good bet you’ll find the last one or two in this store on Baggot Street. I remember in the iPod craze of 2000-​something I snapped up the last iPod in Ireland at this outlet.
I have checked the price of the iPhone pretty much every three days since it was released in … was it 2007? I spend the next day trying convincing myself that I can afford it, but eventually, I get to my senses and decide it’s obviously the most extraordinary waste of money ever. I begin thinking you would actually have to be a full-​blown masochist to accept this twisted offer. Then, on the third day, I decide to just check and see what the price is now.
This franchise appears, strangely, to be owned by the man at the counter and as a result the service has that personal touch. He seems most at ease with his business clientele, I think this is his target market, and he can be just a little cool with me.
I don’t blame him, I’ve been in his shop every three days for three years and never bought anything. That’s three-​hundred-​and-​sixty-​five times I’ve pointed and said ‘Um, and how much is it on this plan?’ and three-​hundred-​and-​sixty-​five times I’ve walked out again with nothing. That’s three-​hundred-​and-​sixty-​five failed sales pitches in three years. This is an impasse, we are stuck in a rut. This is the proverbial ‘watched pot’ of gizmo acquisition.
Something’s got to give and either it will get cheaper, or I will get richer, or the O2 guy will snap and ram one down my throat before the damned thing becomes completely redundant.
P. S. Of course meteor are really the only network worth thinking about for everything other than the iPhone.