Favorite LFS "CUSTOMER" STORIES ...

[perfect_prefect]

damn i got my 150 drilled with dual overflows(6'long 18"front to back 29.5" tall) with a 40 breeder drilled and a sump for the 40b all for $450 that manager did miss out on a deal, i wouldnt have even paid that much for it.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

more storys they are great.
not the best but heres mine.
I went to petsmart looking for a tank for my gars. they had a 150 with a short but deep and tall footprint. not perfect but it would do. so i talk to the guy and he works with me alot. i tell him if i can get the stand and tank for under 600 bucks i would take it. added up it came to 615 dollars. he says " let me go talk to my boss, she will give discounts on large tanks if we talk to her." note my buddy had just bought a 56g and she gave him a employee discount(15% i think) on his set up which was only 400 before the discount. he goes and talks to her and she said no on the discount, they would sell it any day, its the time people buy big tanks.. in fact she said if i wanted to buy it, it would have to be the full set up they had there. A $900 set up!!!!. i said no thanks. I ended up buying a 125g for 250 bucks. This was on black friday. it had been there for 2 months prior. I was just there yesterday. its still there

idiot manager, had a deal and lost it.

For the sake of $15 thats stupid

 

[captmo16v]

Great thread!
I own a LFS for 17 years and have plenty of stories.
first one:
Caller: do you sell fish?
Me: ah yes.
caller: what kinds?
me: all kinds
caller: how big are the fish?
me: which ones
caller: do you sell colorfull fish?
& on & on....... a lot of dumb people.

Oh this is a good one from my first shop back in 1992.
I had a sign that said African Cichlids above the door.
A lady came in and asked if I was selling African children!
lmao til this day.

more to come. good times.....

LMAO!! wow thats great. you know there is a big market for african children.

 

[rainbowfishpc]

Customers who interupt you whilst your gicing advice and advising the cutomer your with differently.

They really annoy me

Whilst? I thought that died 200 years ago Guess I was wrong. Sorry, I'm american, and I love reading Australian and British posts.

 

[big54bob]

Everytime someone inquires about goldfish, I inform them that the Pope has issued an edict in Rome against keeping goldfish in bowls, as it is too cruel.

I would imagine, in America, our heavily Protestant population would try to keep better care of a goldfish, lest the Pope prove them a fool.

I disapprove even of keeping Bettas without filters.

To disclose, I was raised Catholic, but do no longer observe.

Never question the Pope with all of his popely authority.

 

[srikamaraja]

^It's pretty much the funniest thing I've ever read about.

 

[rainbowfishpc]

I have tons of stories, working for a big chain store, however my biggest pet peeve is when people call cichlids, chinchillas. I tell them chinchillas are not fish, but small animals. Or when they call them chick-lids.

Serisously, never her chinchilla befroe

 

[Will Hayward]

That reminds me...

-How do I stop my guppies from breeding?
=Take out all the females.
-Will my guppies be *** then?
=I doubt it, but it's their right to be ***.
-Isn't there anything else I can do?
=Nope, the Pope still disproves of contraceptive.
-Can I borrow a Bag? I'm going to bring you my Guppies.


*** = Homosexual. Really MFK?

 

[Smitty114]

I realize that this is a thread all about peoples' WORST encounters, but are most fish store employees (other than Wal-Mart) pretty uneducated? Or is it only rare occurrences that you see uninformed stores/employees?

 

[Death Pony]

Here's a good one!
I was at a PetSmart just looking at what they had. This woman starts talking to an employee, asking what size tank she had. I kid you not, these were the exact words out of her mouth;

"I don't know what size the tank is, but it looks like two 10 gallons put together."

I tried so hard not to laugh!