Cheapskate SC's...ahh the joy!

[XCashier]

CC : They used to be £4.99, why isn't it £4.99? You people have gotten SO expensive! You used to be sooo cheap!
...CC : You and *the competition* are in league together! The price was the same over there! Price fixing is illegal! I want a discount! You're ALL SO EXPENSIVE!

Somebody obviously has not heard of inflation, or cost-of-living increases. Or maybe he has, and is just being an ass (more likely). Jeeze, the price went up a whole £1. Call the media!

I'd hate to see him at the local petrol station. "This used to be £1 a liter, now it's £5 a liter!* Why are you so expensive? You used to be sooo cheap! I want a discount! Waah!"

*okay, I'm guessing, I have no idea what petrol costs in the UK.

[MadMike]

I was re-pricing some cans after the price had gone up, and some old fart grumbled at me for "jacking up the prices."

I'll admit I don't know what his financial situation was, but I was just a poor college student, and I had to pay those same prices. We didn't even get any kind of employee discount.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Speaking of hagglers, I think the funniest one I ever had was the guy who tried to haggle of the price of a hammer that was on clearance for 3 dollars or something like that.

He asked me what was the lowest price we'd take on it. I told him 3 dollars. He put the hammer down and walked away.

[ArenaBoy]

I get people who joke about the parking price and I'm okay with it. I do get hagglers once in a while, my personal favorite is "Nice car" discount.

[Acolyte]

I had someone try and haggle me over the price of a Crispy Chicken. He tried for 5 minutes before I just walked away.

*Grabs stress ball*
Just 3 more shi-er, shifts. Just 3 more. 3.
*Breaks stress ball*

[Imogene]

Oh, you just know I had intense loads of customers through the movie stores.
"I can get this cheaper at Wal-Mart!"
M: "Yup, but it'll be censored, first off."
"No it won't."
M: "Trust me, it will. Wal-Mart refuses to stock certain things unless they're censored. I've seen Sopranos box sets come through our store, by way of people attempting to return them, but they don't show up in our system because they're censored."


Or, the infamous:
"I can get this cheaper at Best Buy."
M: "Yup. But that's because Best Buy used to own us, and jacked up our prices to make themselves look better. Not to mention, you won't get anyone to help you in the movies. Their big-ticket stuff gets all the attention, you know? Computers, video games, televisions..."

[Jester]

Haggle? Sure....let's HAGGLE!

I may have told this before, but it definitely fits in here, so if I am reposting and it bothers anyone, sorry.

Anyway, being a bartender I can be a bit more of a smartass than many of y'all. Following is a typical exchange, which I do so love. (And yes, I do this all with a straight face, albeit my straight face typically has a hint of a devilish grin....)

SC: "Two Budweisers please."
ME: "Sure. That will be seven dollars, please."
SC: "How about five dollars, and we call it even?"
ME: "Nine dollars it is."
SC: "No, I said five. FIVE."
ME: "No problem. Eleven dollars."
SC: "Can we go back to seven?"
ME: "No problem. Seven dollars. Pleasure doing business with you, sir."

Amusingly, I DO have the authority to make deals, within reason. You know who I make deals for? Right: good customers!!! You know, the kind that doesn't need to haggle in the first place.

[Thrifty]

Working at a thrift store people think it's let's make a deal. Um no.

The ones that annoy me most are people who bring up Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Gucci, Louis Vutton, etc.

Why is this so much!!!! I can get (a pair of shoes, shirt, pants, purse etc.) at Wal-mart for 4.99!!

I'd like to know what wal-mart sells a ralph lauren shirt for 4.99.

[friendofjimmyk]

Well, by god, go to freakin' wal-mart!

Oh, if you could only say what you want to say!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Why? Because there's a certain breed of guy who believes, deep down in his heart, that if he acts like that to people, then they will resepct him.

Because He Takes No Crap.

Because he's In Charge.

Sometimes, it works.

Other times, they get slapped down hard for it.

Sometimes literally.

You just described my ex to a T, sorry to say. He was quite embarrassing to go out in public with there toward the last.

And no, that attitude doesn't always work. Folks like that usually end up being laughed at behind their backs (at the very least.)

[Becks]

Working at a thrift store people think it's let's make a deal. Um no.

The ones that annoy me most are people who bring up Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Gucci, Louis Vutton, etc.

Why is this so much!!!! I can get (a pair of shoes, shirt, pants, purse etc.) at Wal-mart for 4.99!!

I'd like to know what wal-mart sells a ralph lauren shirt for 4.99.

At the Goodwill I worked at, for the longest time, if you were REALLY lucky, you could find "mega brand name" clothing for only a couple of dollars. Eventually, the manager decided that the dim spark in his brain was an idea and told us to up the price a bit. Soooooo, long story short, Tommy Hilfiger (sp? because I don't care...) jeans could range between $2.99-$9.99 a pair, depending on who was pricing and if they cared.

[Gurndigarn]

Soooooo, long story short, Tommy Hilfiger (sp? because I don't care...)

It's spelled HI£FIGER.

Or if you're stateside, it can also go by HIGHFIGURE$.


(And... they're kinda boring clothes. Can't the designer put something better than his logo on the clothes? There's a pretty simple logic. You pay me to advertise your stuff. Not the other way around.)

[Crow The Robot]

Well, by god, go to freakin' wal-mart!

Oh, if you could only say what you want to say!

No don't send them to us we get enough, SCs as it is. BTW they do the same thing with us, telling us they can get it cheaper at K-Mart, Target, a flea market, or "the dollar store" .

[Becks]

BTW they do the same thing with us, telling us they can get it cheaper at K-Mart, Target, a flea market, or "the dollar store" .

Target is actually CHEAPER than Wal-Mart? Is that possible??

[Gurndigarn]

Target is actually CHEAPER than Wal-Mart? Is that possible??

Yup. Not often, but at times and for specific items. Especially if Wal-Mart has been around longer than six month to a year, which is when they quietly start raising their "introductory" prices up to the "standard" ones.

(That's not an uncommon practice, BTW, and not illegal. Watch grocery stores in college towns. August/September, prices are low. They quietly creep up starting October/November.)