Visited a Store and was shunned

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.

I used to sell audio back in the late 70’s heyday. There were always “lookers” comparing equipment. It was up to me to convert them to buyers. I certainly didn’t manage to that by being rude or making assumptions about the buyer based on appearances. 

Have to resort to reading reviews of equipment? ROFL! Good luck with that. The audio mags are my last place to read a review of any audio gear. Have you seen Jay’s YT videos on audio magazine gear reviews? A must watch, but it was common knowledge before those videos landed. 

When I’m interested in upgrading or just buying new gear, I go to audio shows or fly to a dealer or manufacturer to listen to a specific audio product. I’ve even flown to Austria to go to a manufacturer that I liked at RMAF to see their manufacturing process and listen to their products. Take in some vacation while stopping by a manufacturer, good way to spend a week or 2. 

Most of the time I work with manufacturers/dealers that I have already dealt with to bring in their gear to evaluate in my own room/with my own gear, which is the only way to fully judge if something is going to work out

Did you call ahead of time to set up an appointment? If you had and told them what you were interested in and your intent, I'm sure they would have fawned all over you and perhaps had a hot pizza and some red wine to consume during a break in the listening. 

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