I will show them stories….

Funny story
I got not buzzed into a jewellery store once years ago. (probably because I had rugby tracksuit pants on and an T-shirt and had just came from rugby training) Was when the whole getting buzzed in started….
So to be a smartarse i drove 20km to the same jewellery store at another mall and payed cash for a Swiss watch. (35 anniversary Tag Monaco)
Drove back to the original store and knocked on the window and showed them the bag….


Had fun telling the manager of the store I bought the watch at, about the last store I had visited and wasn’t buzzed in.

Share you “that will teach them” story.

The closest thing I've done lately:

I see a vintage Seiko on eBay that I want. I send a 'best offer' at 80% of their asking price. It's immediately refused. I send several offers up to 90% and they won't budge. Two weeks later they drop the price to 80% of their original asking price. I buy it and send them a memo "if only you'd accepted my previous offer..."

I probably shouldn't have been so mean-spirited, but as someone who sells a fair bit on eBay, I don't see the point of having the 'best offer' feature if you aren't willing to negotiate.

Reminds me of 'pretty woman' 😀

My mother in law was wanting to upgrade the electronics in her house and asked me to help her with purchasing said 'components'. Multiple laptops, TVs, microwave, etc.
We went to a local Bestbuy. I knew we were going to spend over $15K in one stop so I asked a sales associate if they worked on commission. He answered with a slightly snarky "nobody here works on commission".
I thought ok, so we began down the aisles and met a very helpful and knowledgeable sales person and began to pick out our items together. Approaching $10K in our multiple carts, we bumped into the first sales associate. He was miffed and told our sales person that he met us first. I stepped in and quoted him that he said he doesn't work on commission so why does it matter? "Well, it's not commission really but we do get compensation on what we sell." Huh? Sorry fella, we're sticking with the friendly sales person.

I was once thrown out of a bar for pissing in the sink in the bathroom instead of in the toilet. Some girls used the men’s toilet because of long que in the ladie’s bathroom, so it was locked forever. I had drunk a lot of beer. While pissing I look left and see a bouncer just shaking his head and pointing at the door. He let me finish but told me not to come back.

I left, got my sweater in the wardrobe, went around the corner of the street, put my sweater on, went back to the bar and was greeted by the same bouncer who said “welcome” and opened the door. So I deposited my sweater in the wardrobe and went back to my mates.

Not sure it qualifies for this thread but even so… 😀

In the mid 1980s, I was managing a major downtown chain jewellery store. One day, a couple who were not regulars in our store came in to look at an 18-karat Rolex Day/Date on a President bracelet for him, and the matching ladies 18-karat Lady Date for her. They bought both. THEN they told us how they had visited the watch department of a major competitor who had the same two watches. When they asked if they could try them on, the watches were secured to a chain which was fastened to the showcase, then the customer walked out and came to our store, and bought! I seriously doubt that a well dressed, middle-aged Oriental couple like them really presented a great flight risk! Our gain was the other store’s loss!

Same store, at about the same time. Saturday afternoon. A couple we didn’t know came in the view our estate jewellery department. They settled on a $13,000.00 diamond ring ($50,000.00 2024 dollars). The ring needed sizing. They asked a/if they could pay by cheque, and b/ could we size it immediately! I asked them to call back in two hours to allow me time to find a goldsmith who’d do it, (and also to stew over how I was gonna deal with the $13,000.00 cheque from someone I didn’t know!) In the early 1970s, I had managed a chain jewellery store in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (same chain). I was friends with the manager of a sister store, there. I phoned “Roy” and explained my dilemma. I gave him the customer’s name and location name. His reply was that there were four prosperous farm families that owned four adjacent farms, and this couple was one of the owners. I got the ring sized, they came back and picked it up, and I spent the next two weeks eating Rolaids and hoping I’d handled it properly! (I HAD!) They mighta walked had I not done what I did.

Many years ago, when I was just starting out as a young lawyer, I attended a seminar about the treatment of taxes in bankruptcy. The seminar was taught by a lawyer who had previously been a businessman. He began the seminar by revealing the one sentence that he said one should never say to an IRS agent - because apparently he said it: “Just see if you can find my assets.” Apparently they did.

I recently dealt with an estate outfit who had a 94-year old fellow client who had Rolex Date-Just that wouldn’t work on him. They were offering it for sale. The outfit brought it to me for an opinion. First thing I discovered was that it had been serviced. Whoever serviced it broke the heads off both case screws (easy on Rolex), and had crazy glued the screw heads in place. Naturally, the glue ran down into the screw holes so the shanks of the screws weren’t removable! The watch was all steel with an 18-karat white gold bezel. So it likely had an MSRP of $13,000 (Cdn.). The watch went to Rolex for an $1,800.00 repair! When the watch came back, the broker received an offer of $1,000 because “the dial and hands weren’t original, the crystal wasn’t original, and there was no box and papers” according to the dink that made the offer. All parts were current genuine replacements, and the work was done by Rolex, and the Rolex repair invoice was included with a TWO year guarantee! The watch ended up with an offer of $7,500.00 (Cdn.) which the owner accepted. Nice try, cheapskate!