What Do You Do Here?
 

Beat: CS SUCKS at times.

Here's something I came across when mattress shopping:

Walked into a store (it was either Sleepy's or Rockaway Bedding...don't remember) and found a king-sized mattress that I liked. It was $795 with tax. I told the guy to ring it up and here's the convo:

Salesman: OK, it's $795 total.
Me: (handing him eight $100 bills) Here you go.
Salesman: (sucking his teeth with a crooked smile) UGH, you don't have a credit card?
Me: No, I only have cash on me.
Salesman: Oh. Can you find one? Do you have a friend or someone you can call with a credit card?
Me: NO, do you want the sale?? Here's $800.
Salesman: (reluctantly) Fine, I'll take the cash. But you'll let me keep the $5 change, right?
Me: Ummm, no.
Salesman: Well, you should, considering you don't have a credit card and now I have to make a special trip to the bank tomorrow. And you know that gas is like $3/gallon these days.

FACT 1: This guy was the store OWNER.
FACT 2: I never met him before.

WHAT A [censored] DOUCHE!!

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You got that [censored] back though, right?

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Please tell me he did not keep the change.

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I wanna know what you guys would do.

Then I'll say what happened.

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Wow, I would have just cancelled the sale and left at that point.

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If this was a chain store, he may have been purposely avoiding the sale of a low-margin (or negative-margin) mattress to make his numbers look better.

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Wow, I would have just cancelled the sale and left at that point.

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If this was a chain store, he may have been purposely avoiding the sale of a low-margin (or negative-margin) mattress to make his numbers look better.

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It was a chain. He was the owner of that particular branch.

Re: What Do You Do Here?
 

i'd say

"well, costco takes cash... i'll just go there"

or if i was feeling really mean, i'd call the cops, since that's illegal

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Yeah, pretty sure that's what happened then. Where I used to work the managers/owner would be total dicks to people who were buying something low-margin and who couldn't be pushed into something profitable. The term was "walk", as in "see and what you can do to 'walk' this guy-- I don't need to be taking a GMP hit today."