Handle9: Were they Bavarian?

neb:

Handle9: Were they Bavarian?

A Preiss would do that, not a Bavarian.

Well, I wasn't in the shop without shoes and pants after all but asking for service. And if the customer actively asks for his size with a concrete shoe sample with the price tag from the sales shelf in his hand, then one should probably assume that he can afford them - with or without sales training. ;-)

Tinkerisk:

Well, I wasn't in the shop without shoes and pants after all but asking for service. And if the customer actively asks for his size with a concrete shoe sample with the price tag from the sales shelf in his hand, then one should probably assume that he can afford them - with or without sales training. ;-)

Tinkerisk:

Well, I wasn't in the shop without shoes and pants after all but asking for service. And if the customer actively asks for his size with a concrete shoe sample with the price tag from the sales shelf in his hand, then one should probably assume that he can afford them - with or without sales training. ;-)

Handle9: They were encouraging you to be thrifty.

I am already!

I buy shoes that last for several years and can be repaired by the shoe master around the corner instead of throwing them away. Good craftsmanship has its price and when the purchase price and repair costs are calculated over time, they are just as expensive if not cheaper than buying a pair every year for one season and throwing them away. I never buy for prestige, but I don't shy away from high prices if it pays off (I usually have my shoes for 10 years). :-)

As my grandfather used to say somewhat mischievously:
"Boy, we're too ‚poor‘ to afford cheap wine, cheap food, cheap tools and cheap shoes."

Tinkerisk:

Handle9: They were encouraging you to be thrifty.

I am already!

Handle9:

Tinkerisk:

I am already!

As a good German that is to be assumed 😂

neb: Particularly if he's a Schwotte.

Hey you both, now make a point. This is Hamburg, we are considered as hanseatic, generous and cosmopolitan! :-)

Tinkerisk:

 

Salespeople who want to be more distinguished than their customers.

 

I was once in a branch of a normal shoe chain, but at the first address in town. As it was very hot, I didn't wear a suit and tie, of course. When I asked them to bring me a pair of black handcrafted shoes in my size in the upper price range from the warehouse, it took a (cigarette) while. Unfortunately, they didn't fit yet, so please get one size bigger from stock. She then said, could I afford them at all before she had to run to the warehouse again?

 

One of her colleagues had overheard this and she quickly brought me the desired size in both black and brown before the first saleswoman had even made her way back to the warehouse. Since I also liked the brown shoes very much, I bought both pairs right away. The face was priceless when she came back and saw that her friendly colleague had doubled her sales with me and I said goodbye in a friendly manner.

 

A little saying comes to mind. "Never judge a book by its cover."

I know people who could buy the shop but you'd never know by looking at them. One had a salesperson question if they could afford the products they were enquiring about. Needless to say they walked out without buying.

The barrage of questions you get when selling something second hand for a few dollars on Marketplace or similar. It's as if people expect something for $10 to be brand new when an equivalent new one is 10 times the price or more. Appreciate you want to know what you're buying but some of the questions are frustrating.

invisibleman18:

The barrage of questions you get when selling something second hand for a few dollars on Marketplace or similar. It's as if people expect something for $10 to be brand new when an equivalent new one is 10 times the price or more. Appreciate you want to know what you're buying but some of the questions are frustrating.

invisibleman18:

 

The barrage of questions you get when selling something second hand for a few dollars on Marketplace or similar. It's as if people expect something for $10 to be brand new when an equivalent new one is 10 times the price or more. Appreciate you want to know what you're buying but some of the questions are frustrating. 

Just used it for the first time to shift some household items from parents old house, where we had a very short time-frame in another city to get rid of some items. Decided it was akin to herding cats. The number of arrangements that fell through, even after people had paid. Not worth it...

I find marketplace can be quicker to shift low value stuff but certainly end up with a lot a lot of timewasters when there's no feedback or history to worry about maintaining. Plenty of trolls in the comments too. 

This is not small and it angers me. People with disabilities and people supporting those with disabilities have to put up with this crap all too often. Jetstar is an utter disgrace and I wouldn't be sad to see this train wreck go out of business in Aotearoa 

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