Re: rude or dishonest vendors
I was a consomuer for many, many years, and am now a vendor (figs and bananas). I am NOT making a comment or judgement about the person who started this thread because I do not know him/her.
However, There are "customer" who are probably not going to buy. There are customers who can't ever seem to make up their mind, and have no end of questions and/or "what if" scenarios. There are customers that you can never make happy. There are customers that always want to "wheel and deal' or haggle about the price. no matter how good the price is to begin with. There are customers who call and order one thing, and then always want something different when they arrive, after you have picked and packed what they originally requested. In short, there are "customers" that you wish you had never seen. There is a finite amount of time, and, and if time is money. your time needs to be productive (making you money) - you can't spend 2 hours on a $10 sale.
I'll spend a hour and often more educating visitors about the trees I sell, and maintain two websites with a ton of educational material. But in the end, the websites need to be paid for, the plants potted, watered, fertilized and so forth, and my kids are still addicted to 3 square meals a day,
Again, I am NOT suggesting that the poster of this thread falls into any of these categories. But some people definitely do.
My 2 cents.
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