Why teach your kids this?

[bainsidhe]

My brain died when she said you weren't a "real business". My first thought was that you must not earn a "real" paycheck or have to pay "real" bills. Which is then exactly what you wrote.

But yeah. WalMart may buy thousands of XYZ gotta have item and they therefore get an awesome price. Small shops may be paying a lot more for the same item. When I worked at Media Play, all the big retailers would sell a DVD for $14.00 and our cost was $16.00. Not easy competing.

[LillFilly]

Sigh. The old 'Why don't you get a real job/run a real business' line. Makes me want to stab people with pocky! That was some really twisted logic that SC was attempting to use.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

She shouldn't be educating her son on economics. She clearly knows fuck all about how businesses work.

[skeptic53]

Reminds me of http://www.actsofgord.com/ , kind of a proto-CS blog telling the woes of a now-defunct game shop. Hilarious stuff

[NateTheChops]

So many levels of fail there. I feel very sorry for her son; he seems like a nice kid, but she's well on her way to warping him into an EW.
.

Please, that was practically my mother. My brothers and I managed to escape EWism and even though my sister is only seven, she's catching on to my mother's antics and I have high hopes.

Godess of Retail: It sounds like you work in the kind of store I frequent quite often. I'm not into the role playing aspect of it as much as the used movies and games I can sometimes find in shops like yours.

Welcome aboard.

[Gravekeeper]

"Alert Shopper", is that the politically correct term now? -.-

I must be a terribly unaware shopper, as I just pay whatever the price tag says unless I'm at a bazaar in India or something. In which case stuff probably doesn't have a price tag and I'd have to ask first. Granted I don't speak Hindi so I wouldn't be able to ask anyway I guess. I'd need some sort of little translation book or s-....ok I'll be quiet now.

[Daemonmonkey]

I'm astonished that she didn't go with "IT'S THE LAW" card...

Reminds me of http://www.actsofgord.com/ , kind of a proto-CS blog telling the woes of a now-defunct game shop. Hilarious stuff

Those are CLASSICS! Door's to your left, make sure it doesn't hit you when you get out!

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sigh. The old 'Why don't you get a real job/run a real business' line. Makes me want to stab people with pocky!

Hey now. It's a crime to waste pocky that way.

[blas]

So, is she poor, or is she rich? At one point, she's going on a tirade about working hard for her money and wanting the most out of it (wah wah wah), and then for no good reason, she flies off the handle defending herself as being well enough off to buy every game in the store.

What class.

I'll bet she's the bitch who wrote the infamous article in Cosmo about getting a refund without a receipt and how to "handle" a clerk who says no. Either that or her sister.

[taxguykarl]

What class.

You can say that again, Blas. She may have money but not class.

[Goddess of Retail]

To Mr. Hero=The games were not overly popular, but are rarely traded in, since they're RPGs with lots of re-playability. They were;

-Dark Alliance 1
-Dark Alliance 2
-Demon Stone
All great D&D based Playstation 2 games

To Blas= Is there really an article about being a retail-demon? In Cosmo? Wha?

To LillFilly & Jay 2K Winger= Pocky should always be used respectfully, and only to fill the holes left in us by EWs. That's why I have a baseball bat made out of used chewing gum!
Ok, not really, but someday...

[Sapphire Silk]

SL: (uber-sweetly) Well, I'm trying to teach my son to be a more alert abusiveshopper.

SL: WHAT?! This is how I get treated by shopping locally?! How am I supposed to teach my child how to get the best dealfuck over clerks and associates in stores on everything when you won't give it?

Fixed it for her.

[MadMike]

I wonder if she's related to the customer I had, who wanted a discount simply because he "didn't feel like paying that much?"

[blas]

Goddess, head over to Sightings and see the thread "Get a refund without a receipt", it's a tad old but it's an exerpt from an issue of Cosmo, explaining how to scam a store pretty much.

[LadyAndreca]

To Mr. Hero=The games were not overly popular, but are rarely traded in, since they're RPGs with lots of re-playability. They were;

-Dark Alliance 1
-Dark Alliance 2
-Demon Stone
All great D&D based Playstation 2 games

You...you had them for $10 each? And were willing to go lower? We paid $25 each for Dark Alliance 1 and 2! *starts making plans for a road trip*