Oh yeah?
I told a customer he needed to eat dog food and bark before he paid me double the going rate on a Bushmaster. He not only did that, he licked his privates too.
Now
that's funny, right there!
And what's "double the going rate" on an AR-15 these days anyway? Infinity, plus one, times two?
This thread is odd. I would have predicted that, after a few rounds of story swapping about customers and dealers behaving badly, we would see a trend towards understanding, patience, humor, and the old do-unto-others theme. I mean we're a pretty homogeneous group (with a few exceptions) and we share a common passion. Every one of us has been a customer. A great many of us has been a dealer or salesperson. You'd think that by about page two we'd have managed to reach a consensus on what habits or mannerisms are acceptable and which are the marks of a jacka$$ -- on both sides of the counter.
Instead, we're 5 pages into a heated debate where each side's response seems to (inadvertently, I'm sure) JUSTIFY, excuse, and condone whatever dregs of inhuman rudeness the other side has most recently hauled into the light.
At this point I'm not sure where we'll go from here.
"I'd kill any man who handled a gun in my shop without buying THREE!"
"I'd wage JIHAD against the COUNTRY of a dealer who didn't INSIST I [date] his WIFE!"
Everyone knows what it's like to be treated well, right? We like that. Right?
Everyone knows what it's like to be treated poorly, right? We pretty much, generally, don't like that. Right?
Staying in business -- any business but especially the gun business -- is hard enough without ill will and animosity. Affording, selecting, and acquiring the accouterments of our sport/hobby/lifestyle is difficult enough without causing or facing hostility at the counter.
What's the point of having this thread?
To try to make things better in some small way? Then we'd better stop picking at each other.
To just have a laugh at the uneducated, obtuse, and just plain evil folks causing problems on both ends? Then this thread needs to get funny pretty d@mn quick.
-Sam