Thats not quite true is it.Memory is dirt cheap anyway... you can get 1GB of real good quality stuff for £25 brand new these days..
Easy on him, he knows as well as I do that £25 wont buy you GOOD RAM, but...in PC shops, they are used to telling people that the ram they are getting is GOOD. So he is used to saying that to customers!You tit imagine if they let you work in a computer shop