[Jewelry making - Article 00724] - Re: [Orchid] Worst thing you've ever heard from a buyer

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    [Compound] Worst thing you've ever heard from a buyerand Visible
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    I rarely jump in to conversation I didn't start it but I have been
    reading everyones observations about open pricing and some of the
    Worst things customers have said and I had to put in my two cents as
    it reminded me of an incident I experienced at a show once.    I am
    for open prices and all my jewelry is priced in my booth.. ....At a
    show I had a customer (making a long story short) spend about 40
    minutes looking over my jewelry with my assistance and paying me all
    the compliments in the world loving it all. I figuring with a
    customer that  liked my work this well I was anticipating a big sale
    and after 40 minutes of picking out jewelry for gifts for his loved
    ones he asks if I could take a local check to which I agreed. As I
    am boxing his purchases and adding a mile a minute He asks for a
    total to write the check. To which I replied 946.tax included...! He
    never batted an eyelash and began to write the check and looked up
    smiling stuck his hand out with the check in it for me to take.. And
    I had this bad feeling! I don't know why BUTt something felt wrong.
    Maybe his check was the rubber kind or what but it was a feeling..
    Anyway I reached out and in an exchanging gesture, my hand extended
    with his gift boxes neatly stacked in my hand and the other attaching
    itself to his check in a yin-yan motion .. And just about to thank
    him for such a good sale I looked down at the check  and it was for
    9.46.... My jaw dropped as I retracted my other hand with the boxes
    still in it.. and asked "You are kidding right?"  To which he said
    "what is the problem ?"and I explained the total sale was Nine
    Hundred and forty-six dollars NOT $9 dollars and 46 cents!!  He
    reached up grabbed his check which I had now extended like it was the
    plague and ran from my tent..  Other customer observing all this as
    if I beat the man with something. After explaining what he had done
    ,I wasn't the only person in the booth asking  Can you believe
    that???  True story!! What could be worst than this??.. It happened
    again in the same year at an art show in Virginia.. I couldn't
    believe it! Two people in the world that  REALLY wanted a bargain!!!


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