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It was a tongue in cheek over dramatic comment to be fair, but going to shops and taking time and advice then googling it in store and asking for price match or discount or simply walking out to buy it online is scummy as fuck.
TM-
but going to shops and taking time and advice then googling it in store and asking for price match or discount or simply walking out to buy it online is scummy as fuck.
This happened a lot where I worked. It was because we sold Altura jackets and Conti tyres and Cateye lights and all the boring shit that’s absolutely everywhere.
Like, no wonder people just go and buy it online, you can google it while you’re standing in the shop and you can almost guarantee that the first hit is going to be at least 20% cheaper than we were charging in the shop.
It was like bangin your head against a wall. Like, “Fuck me, you don’t think that every rep this company has is pushing the same shit lines to every single shop they deal with?”
And the owners would be like, “Yeah but if we take 20 sets of these cateye lights we get 2% more margin on them”.
“But fucking crc bought 20,000 sets and are selling them for less than the margin you make on them!!!”
M_V
I really fucking hate this sentiment.
No one should feel like it’s their responsibility to keep another person’s business afloat.
The last lbs I worked at had two owners. One of them was painfully stupid and the other was a racist, sexist, homophobic cunt.
Why should anyone feel like they have a duty to put money in the pockets of people like that?