Visited a Store and was shunned

To the OP,  your entire experience is completely on those two sales guys. Because they're not here to give another side of the story, we don't know what really transpired at that moment or what kind of vibe, maybe you might have given off when you were talking to them.

I've been a sales professional, a pretty well paid one and a fairly nice guy and having an abundance of experience, I could/can accurately shortcut with my eyes and mostly never get it wrong- and if I did, I deserved the loss that came with it because I probably did something wrong myself.

When anyone brings up these subjects about being rejected at the audio salon, it immediately turns into an us against them kind of thing here in the forums where the customer is virtuous and the salesman was an a*shole. That, unfortunately is often true because there's no real standard on manners anymore, the workforce in the 21st century often leaves much to be desired or completely void of face to face relationship building skills. You have to understand, whether we like it or not, these paid for brick and mortar establishments cost a lot of money to startup, run, turn the lights on and buy the inventory- more than ever before in modern history- and so on and so on. We all know exactly what we've all done. I've absolutely done it once or twice. There are very few of us here who didn't walk into an audio shop to hear a set of hot or well reviewed speakers or a preamp.. just so we can free ourselves to go online and buy it cheaper someplace else from someone who doesn't have the investment, didn't put in the time and experience that the brick and mortar guy does.

You say you were willing to buy that day, I don't think you're lying, but everyone who walks through the door tells that bullsh*t story, I guarantee that's true.

So I cut these guys a little slack and my suggestion to you and anyone else who's reading this, don't break balls if you're not serious and don't use someone else's time & money to do it because that's what you're doing if you use the audio salon and their time to kick the tires and ultimately buy it or (most often) not buy it elsewhere.

Contact the Upper Management and lodge a complaint, ask for an apology.

That way at least a lesson is learned.

parkergetdean

06-19-2026 at 10:25am 

my wife would say: "you are not buying zilch!"

What are you doing with my wife and what time are you sending her home?

How interesting this whole Lynch Mob thing gets. You heard one side of a story and you’re convinced that the store is a whole bunch of things, seriously, too numerous to even recount two pages into the subject with all these vitriolic us against them platitudes.

We don’t really know what happened.

The original poster told the perfectly reasonable sounding story, but we don’t know if that’s really how it happened or, this was just perhaps more perception then actuality.

We all said our piece. Again, it costs a lot of money to turn the lights on and buy some stock and pay two people to stand there all day with rent to pay every month. Alot more rent than the guy who sells online from his basement or ugly out of the way warehouse. Going by the OP's account of what happened, justice was done. They acted less than professionally, per his expectations and account, and he walked and purchased someplace else. There's nothing to talk about other than lousy work ethics.

And truthfully on the flip side, any schmuck could stand there all day soothing the fragile feelings of dreamers & tirekickers who can’t talk about this subject with anyone they know, especially their wives, only to have them go out and buy it elsewhere. That’s not ’a good salesman’. That’s a schmuck.

The retailer is really allowed to do whatever they want, including ’completely suck’, with that space and I don’t know what anyone’s going to get out of this little Jihad some of you want to run- not really knowing all the facts, and in some cases to put it politely, not sounding particularly well informed. None of this is a new story and it’s the same narrative for all the years that I’ve been reading these forums.

@vette5451 

Some people are just meant to be ingnored.