"But I only want ONE!" (AARRGG!!!)

[Dave1982]

Dave if I came to your store, what would you charge me for one m&m fron the checkout aisle? Could you also ring me up for one stick of gum?

Sure....then I'll charge you for my foot in your ass!

[/Red Forman]

[Dave1982]

Today, I had a guy hand me a package of HELLO MY NAME IS stickers (100 to a pack) and say he only needed one, and could he buy just one.

And in a similar vein, I've had a LOT of people asking for 2009 day planners. It's the end of October. 2009 is 5/6 over. How long were you planning to wait?

(No, all the remaining 2009 day planners were clearanced out or thrown out at the end of July).

[jackfaire]

I would be tempted to keep money in a "just one" jar then use that to buy the product myself hand one to the customer and get on with my day

[Fufu487]

Wow, I cant believe people would even WANT to buy a planner that late... :S baffles me

[AccountingDrone]

Wow, I cant believe people would even WANT to buy a planner that late... :S baffles me

to fake records for tax purposes....

I used to date a pretty skanky salesman who would cheat like that ...

[Samaliel]

I can figure a few perfectly rational and reasonable reasons why someone would want to buy a planner that late in the year.

[Victoria J]

Today, I had a guy hand me a package of HELLO MY NAME IS stickers (100 to a pack) and say he only needed one, and could he buy just one.

Someone's gatecrashing an event....

I can figure a few perfectly rational and reasonable reasons why someone would want to buy a planner that late in the year.

My coworker wanted one the other day.

She works as the receptionist and admin here and is trying to get some of the volunteer receptionsists into shape - including attempting to manage someone who only works on a day she doesn't. She gives written instructions - half the time they get ignored. So we were brainstorming over lunch and decided that a diary was the way to go. A permanent record, cheap enough to get hold of, accessible by any one sitting on the reception desk... She schedules things for them, and whatever they don't get round to doing they have to reschedule for the next worker. It's meant to make them take some responsibility for the stuff that needs doing even though they aren't necessarily expected to finish everything. When they do ignore stuff then we have evidence.

Some systems require a diary. Some systems aren't put in place in January.

Similarly some work places will require all staff members to have a diary - even if they start in October.

We tracked down a spare one in the end, but otherwise we were going to look for an academic year one. Lots of them run from September to the next December.

My favourite diary is from Muji and runs from October to January. I have no idea why. Must get a new one.

Victoria J

[Dave1982]

-4X6 Index cards

-small labels that are $3.29 for 500.

[Victoria J]

small labels that are $3.29 for 500.

I think I'd agree to sell 1 of those. And I'd be really nice, I'd just split the price by the number of labels.

Exact change only.



Victoria J

[Pagan]

I love purple pens...I love purple period.

Ooh, me too! It's hard to find purple pens. Whenever I do find them, I stock up.

[Dave1982]

Today it was FILE FOLDERS.......TWICE!

The hell of it is that we actually do sell individual file folders, but they are super heavy duty plastic ones that are $1 each. They wanted the manilla paper ones.....just one.

[Dips]

They remind me of the idiots who want to buy an update but don't want all of the new features...

"What if I don't need all that fancy stuff? I just need [feature]. Why should I have to pay for the whole thing?"

Aggggh!

[PepperElf]

i like colorful pens
but in packs cos i usually end up losing them

[wolfie]

At Crappy Tire, they sell the 1 pound disposable propane cylinders (lanterns, camp stoves, etc.) as singles, 2-packs, and 3-packs. If you look closely, you'll see that the UPC on the cylinder is different for the 3 package sizes (multi-packs are held together by a plastic bracket around the necks). I can just imagine a SC who only wants one, but there are only 3-packs on the shelf, and takes one out of the package. If they're not paying attention, they won't catch that it was scanned as a 3-pack.

[trunks2k]

I think you should say "OK", ring up the whole multi pack, then remove the one item the customer wants. If they complain, say something like "It's $2 for one pen, the other 11 in the pack are free".