Favorite LFS "CUSTOMER" STORIES ...

[LoganBlade]

last night at petco. 4 college age kids found themselves a minnow and took it home. Put it in a small tank wanted it to have a friend. they were looking at convicts and other cichlids. I informed them since the did name it and wanted it to live they should just get some water conditioner and do regular water changes for the fish to live happy. They picked up the bottle but not sure if they really listened.

One of the kids seemed to care. so hopefully it will live.

 

[BenSow]

i hang around at my lfs a lotthis one happens five times a day:
Customer: does these fish need oxogen?
Owner:yes
Customer: Do you have a fish that doesnt need oxogen?
Owner: not at the moment.
Customer: Bye.... wait does this fish need oxogen?
Owner: yes
bye then
this was the worst
Lady walks in with a bowl with 30 DEAD fish frozen in a bowl. (including beatiful checkerbords cardinals, tetras and cories.) "i didnt want them any more some of them died."
owner: oh... thats thermal shock probably, yes thats it (he blames everything on that), ill get you some more."
as he is about to dip the net in to get some she says,
"no i want something a bit bigger like those" she pointed to a ton of gouramis.
owner gets like twenty and she walks away. i wonder how many will make it

The oxygen one is weird.. Weird fella what kind of living thing doesnt need oxygen? ok well there are some... but fish..

 

[BenSow]

I just read page 82-85... Just sad people nowadays..

 

[FH_WENG]

............... =.="

 

[BenSow]

I work at a corporate pet store *cough petsmart cough*, and i refuse sales all of the time. My favorite example, Guy comes in to my department.
Me: Can i help You?
Him: Yeah give three of these. (indicating oscars)
me: How bigs you tank?
Him: huge.
Me: quantify huge for me, how many gallons?
Him: 29.
Me:Thats too small for oscars. How about some different fish.
Him: Look kid, ive kept em in there before, I know what im doing.
Me: Regardless of what youve done before, im not selling them to you now.
Him: You can kiss my ass you little ****, wheres a manager.
Me: Well, sir, there should be one over there.
Him: Go get him.
Me: Sir it is your perogative to talk to a manager, therefore it is your responsibility to get one.
The guy storm off to get the manager, he demonizes me, and ends up getting his fish. I told my manager that undermining my knowledge was really appreciated, and he laughed, and the said customers need to be happy, and said if i wanted to keep my job i need to learn that.

WOW that really sucks

 

[BellycrawlerJaws]

i dont work in an lfs but i love it when noobs insist they are right like in an lfs by me one of the guys i know who works there had to tell this woman that an oscar would not live in a 10g and she insisted she had friends who were 'fish experts' who told her it could. Anyway she got soooooo anoyed when he wouldnt sell it to her and started ranting about how they sold poor quality clown fish which died as soon as you got them he asks her what the salinity and size of the tank are and she says "what do you mean by salinity" and he says how much salt do you put in she just looks at him really strangely and he explains about how they need salt, but she still insists that they can be acclimatised to freshwater and just leaves.

Bahahahahahhahhaa - LOVE IT

Yeah I don't work at my LFS, but I'm there pretty regularly and I always laugh when people say they bought their 10 gallon, and then go and buy.... one neon, one female guppy, two dwarf gouramis, and then ask if they can have a pink convict with them ... The guy I know who works there looks at them and basically tells them no

 

[L021]

I always love when PetSmart employees ask me "How big is this tank for this fish" And I say; "120 gallons" And they just give me this look of awe and amazement

 

[BellycrawlerJaws]

oh and one better... I came in and there was a new guy at the store, and I was talking to him about fish, and he knew nothing about them..... Like he didn't know what an oscar was, or how big an ID Shark grew, or that the Leoparinus Fasciatus babies they were selling can get to be MONSTERS...

And one more I was looking at my LFS show tank, which has all of the stickers for what is in the tank on the side mind you... Some guy walked in and looked at the tank with me and said.... "Where's the swordfish?" I looked at him strange and then realized... he was looking at the sticker for the Amazon Sword plant in the tank (on the front). I chuckled and told him that was a plant and that swordfish were saltwater...

 

[L021]

Aren't Swordfish Fresh?

 

[PostalPenguin]

The worker at Petco last night refused to sell Glofish to a girl who had 2 pictus cats in a 5 gallon tank. She also turned out to have a 500g tank at home...