douchebag of the year...salesman at pippin vintage

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by FIHTies

Actually. we really dont quite know what he did. What we do know is what the OP posted as his take on what happened, and while I fully agree that customer service to all customers or potential ones is quite possibly THE single most important factor in a business I think that without hearing the other side of the story or having an independent and unbiased observer tell us what happened its way too early for the firing squad.

This is why an official SF Sh*t list is a dangerous thing.

Agreed.

 

[ExHack]

Originally Posted by rdawson808

I think the best revenge is for us to file in and buy them all and then tell him how he could have sold them for 2-3 times the price. Art Deco, double-sided, $10-30? I'm all over them.

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I thought the "Pretty Woman" scenario was the best advice, but this takes the cake. F-ing A ... I couldn't buy those kind of cufflinks on eBay for those prices.

My brother-in-law is in a similar boat image-wise. He's about 25, looks 19, tall good-looking 1/2 Anglo/1/2 Filipino guy. He's about to become some kind of Microsoft-Certified IT God making $150K/year. He probably gets mistaken for a college student when he goes in stores. A smart salesperson never makes those kinds of assumptions. In my own case, I don't dress for business when I'm not doing business - right now I'm sitting here in a thrift-store T-shirt, cutoffs and a hole in one sock. Believe me, my buying power and appetites don't go away when the suits do.

 

[ExHack]

Hey, slightly o/t ... on eBay there used to be a couple selling cufflinks of the kind we're chewing the fat over here (their names were Calfee, their ID was doscalfees.) They suddenly stopped selling about a year or so ago. Anyone have any clue what happened to them?

 

[johnapril]

I caught hell on my first morning in Manhattan. This homeless fellow approached me and asked for 50 cents for a cup of coffee. His New York accent was so charming I smiled, and he took offense straight away and asked me, threateningly, "What the hell's so goddamned funny?" This made me smile too. I do love that city.