What Do You Do Here?

[crzylgs]

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.

[Our House]

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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.

[keikiwai]

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

[neuroman]

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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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BBV lawyering strikes again

[crzylgs]

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."

[T-God]

Wtf, his margin on the mattress is way more that 5$, plus he doesn't have to pay a fee to Visa or whatever for using their service. Also, why would he have to make a special trip to the bank? Don't they have a safe in the store that he can keep the money in til he makes his routine bank trip?

I'd probably leave the store after that since I would not trust the quality of that guy's products.

Hmm, actually, I wonder if CC companies provide incentives for business owners to get big-ticket items paid for by CC?

[TripSearching]

I bought a new mattress about 3 months ago from one of those chains, it was Sleepys i think. The mattress had a price tag of $1875. I told him I wanted the mattress and I wanted to pay $1000 and he agreed so I hope OP didn't pay the ticket price and also tried to negotiate.