Quote:
"i was in a jam, i didn't want to waste $10 in gas and 30 minutes of my saturday afternoon. time is the only thing in this life that we can never replace."
-againstthagrane
"Oh I get it! The gun shop was stupid for not compensating for your laziness and lack of preparedness."
Time is the only thing we can never replace, and yet you keep wasting time at the same shop? I am not sure you understand your own value system or applied the moniker correctly."
-Double Naught Spy
no they were not stupid for the reasons you listed. they were stupid because they lost a certain sale and many in the future from me and everyone of my friends that asks me where the best place is to shoot and where to avoid.
read the original post, i told the clerk that i had money burning a hole in my pocket. if you're in sales i was what you would refer to as a "lay-down" sale. salesmen love these kinds of sales. they don't have to spend an hour with someone who may or may not spend money. literally the PERFECT customer. i stated a budget and what i wanted. so instead of catering to my willingness spend, he chose the other extreme: "this guy is going to buy no matter what, so i'm not going to even try." it wasn't the discount it was the unwillingness to even try to make me happy that upset me. business is about making money and in order to do that consistently you need repeat business. so four strikes and you're out. i will no longer buy ANYTHING from them, much less big ticket items. i will rule them out of contention for the membership i plan on buying at a shooting range later this year. it was obviously not a good move on their part. i left that place for the fourth time with a horrible taste in my mouth. the time before the last i asked if they carried magpul products, and it went a little something like this:
"yeah, we do." the clerk replied
"do you have any ctr stocks in stock?" i ask
"no."
"can you order me one?"
"you can probably just order them online.":banghead:
another jerry jones in the making? i think not, lol
as far as me not living by my own creed, again, i ask you to READ THE ORIGINAL POST. this place is three times closer to me than the other gun store. if they leave me feeling happy ONE TIME i would feel good about shopping there and return there. on future trips i would save 40 minutes round trip, everytime i go shooting, shopping or browsing.
assuming i'll shoot once a week once i get the membership, i would be saving 34 hours of my sweet precious time a year. totally worth giving the poor muggles a 4th shot at gaining a customer, but alas, it was not meant to be. i will not, however, ever get the time back i just spent trying to enlighten you.