Post by smokeybear on Sept 8, 2007 14:25:00 GMT -5
I just had to vent a little over this you all. I planned on buying a new deer rifle yesterday and I planned on buying it at a local outdoors store here where I live. I will not mention the store's name but I would rather support local businesses when possible, especially with hunting/fishing gear because you not only get the product but the people that are working there usually have a lot of knowledge about the products they are selling and can offer good advice on them unlike the big nationwide discount stores that I feel don't really appreciate your business as much as the locals (at least that is how I felt until yesterday). Anyway, due to having to investigate a fatality accident that happened near the end of my shift I was running late getting home from work. I stopped by the shop, and I admit it was 15 minutes until their closing time and inquired about the rifle I wanted to purchase, the guy that waited on me never said a word, he just sighed real big and mumbled as he walked off to get the rifle "it never fails somebody always wants to buy a gun 15 minutes before closing time..." in a real hateful manner. Well that just about pushed me over the edge. I told him to forget it and I would get the gun somewhere else and then I just left. I have purchased three firearms at that store, 3 or 4 treestands, and several hundred dollars worth of clothing/hunting accessories, but I promise you I will never return to that store again!!! 
If my business is not going to be appreciated there then I will simply go to the big discount store here and purchase the deer rifle and in the process actually save a few dollars. The last few times I have been in there some little something would happen to just get under my skin a little, but this time he crossed the line and I will not be back. I don't want to give many details because I'm not bashing the business, it is just that one guy that has ever given me poor service, however the other people have witnessed it and he is still there. All the others there have never been anything but nice and helpful to me. But you know what they say, one rotten apple can ruin the entire barrel. I have had experiences in with this same guy when he worked at another outdoors store a few years back and he was the reason several people I know, including myself, stopped doing business there also. He is just very rude, has no people skills whatsoever and is a very unfriendly person. When I first saw the guy a couple of years ago at the store I was at yesterday, I knew that eventually he would cause me to quit doing business there also and sure enough it happened yesterday. At least three of the store's other employees witnessed his behavior, but I'm sure nothing will be done. 
I apologize for being so long winded but I just had to vent somewhere!!!
If my business is not going to be appreciated there then I will simply go to the big discount store here and purchase the deer rifle and in the process actually save a few dollars. The last few times I have been in there some little something would happen to just get under my skin a little, but this time he crossed the line and I will not be back. I don't want to give many details because I'm not bashing the business, it is just that one guy that has ever given me poor service, however the other people have witnessed it and he is still there. All the others there have never been anything but nice and helpful to me. But you know what they say, one rotten apple can ruin the entire barrel. I have had experiences in with this same guy when he worked at another outdoors store a few years back and he was the reason several people I know, including myself, stopped doing business there also. He is just very rude, has no people skills whatsoever and is a very unfriendly person. When I first saw the guy a couple of years ago at the store I was at yesterday, I knew that eventually he would cause me to quit doing business there also and sure enough it happened yesterday. At least three of the store's other employees witnessed his behavior, but I'm sure nothing will be done. 
I apologize for being so long winded but I just had to vent somewhere!!!
