Favorite LFS "CUSTOMER" STORIES ...

[TheCanuck]

Today I was at the register to pay for a clown fish for my new Saltwater tank and the guy behind me asks "so which one of your fish died" I was confused and said "aaaa... none of them. Why?" "Oh, we have to come in and buy new fish at least once a month. They all just die" Him and his wife seamed to think that it was exceptionally funny that the fish die and get replaced at least once a month.

I tried to engage them about what kind and how they are keeping them, but it was no use. They just continued to laugh about how they are just cheep fresh water fish. Not expensive like the salt water fish I was getting. So they didn't need to do a good job of caring for them just buy new ones once or twice a month.

I stayed polite and left before I got real mad and told them off. It is the nearest store to me. I did not want to be asked not to return.

LoL man store employees really need to step in sometimes....

 

[Chaz88]

LoL man store employees really need to step in sometimes....

There are some good employees at the place that probably would have chimed in. The guy at the register was the type that probably doesn't stay at a job long enough to get the first raise above minimum wage.

It is hard some times but I try to pick my battles. Picking one with these people would not have done any good except for blowing off steam and I still would have left mad with my blood pressure way up.

 

[Fat Homer]

^ Agreed... i tend to find myself in similar situations at times when i'm out looking around... but can't possibly have the same argument over 20 times each time i goto the fish street around here or else i'd never get around to looking at fish/supplies for myself....plus sometimes its just not worth it especially if you know they won't listen...

 

[Nabbig2]

Today I was at the register to pay for a clown fish for my new Saltwater tank and the guy behind me asks "so which one of your fish died" I was confused and said "aaaa... none of them. Why?" "Oh, we have to come in and buy new fish at least once a month. They all just die" Him and his wife seamed to think that it was exceptionally funny that the fish die and get replaced at least once a month.

I tried to engage them about what kind and how they are keeping them, but it was no use. They just continued to laugh about how they are just cheep fresh water fish. Not expensive like the salt water fish I was getting. So they didn't need to do a good job of caring for them just buy new ones once or twice a month.

I stayed polite and left before I got real mad and told them off. It is the nearest store to me. I did not want to be asked not to return.

Glad you managed to keep your cool. Don't let idiots like that get to you. In their superficial attempts to engage in fishkeeping, they (thankfully) eventually eradicate themselves from our hobby through their numerous stupid and failed attemps, being the simple minded fools they are.

 

[Bazinga]

i had a man i could hear from outside screaming like crazy could hear him from miles away, anyways he bought 2 xl rats to feed to his fish a few weeks back, came into the store with the box he bought them in, a horrible smell coming from it....(any guesses what was in the box ) well after a few weeks of sitting in the box one of the rats died and the other started to eat its decaying body.... worst smell ive ever come across, anyways long story short the man came in giving us hell smelling up our store, causing a massive seen, all because he kept 2 xl rats in the small cardboard box we sold them in for one to many weeks

 

[duster1971]

i was at one of the lfs yesterday and the guy that runs the place is my freind and wanted to know if i culd watch the store while he went to get lunch and of corse i said yes. not but maby five min after he left 10 people walk in the door and all want fish first guy wasnt a lima that they are holding for me and i told him it was mine but i can have one ordeerd and it wuld be in next week he said that wuld work and of corse i ask what size tank he has and he said a 5 galon and i just said well then i cant sell you the fish becaus they get way to big for that tank he got pised and left. then the next person wanted a 29 galon tank and some hi finn tetras i told her i wuld sell her the tank but not the fish and explaind the cycleing process and she was verry decent and baught the tank and said she wuld be back for the fish when the tank cycled . by now all but one person has left and i ask him if i can help him and he was looking at the 125 that they keep ids in and said he wanted 10 of them and i asked what his plans were and he said he had a 10 gallon tank and they shuld be ok in there right? i asked him how big he thaught they got and he said 1 inch and going by the 1 inch pergallon rule they wuld work and i explaind how big they actualy gott and that he wuld need a lake for 10 of them and he wanted to know where i got my misinformation as he had kept them be4 and i had a hay day and got on mfk and showed him the tread and ggoogled some picks and he was surprized and said he was sorry but. still wanted a catfish he culd put in his 10 gal i showed him some corys and he wanted to know how many he culd get and i tol him 2 wuld be ok in the 10 untill he upgraded and he was fine wit that and wanted to know if it cost any thing to join mfk i told him no gave him the site and hopfully we have anew member to educate .that is just the starter of my stories. i will be posting more.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

Over the summer I was in the local Petland, at the counter buying who-knows-what, and I hear a newer employee asking the assistant manager about something a customer asked for... and I quote... a "bio frog, which can live in a cube and you change the water once a year"... as I was leaving, the assistant manager gave me a look like "here we go again"...

I have a pretty good relationship with the employees at petland. I used to talk a lot about the tank size issues, and how they will sell a Redtail Catfish to someone with at least a 30 gallon tank unfortunetaly, it's a business, and if they didn't lie about stuff like that they'd go broke and end up with huge fish in their tanks... such a shame...

 

[Bottomfeeder]

i had a man i could hear from outside screaming like crazy could hear him from miles away, anyways he bought 2 xl rats to feed to his fish a few weeks back, came into the store with the box he bought them in, a horrible smell coming from it....(any guesses what was in the box ) well after a few weeks of sitting in the box one of the rats died and the other started to eat its decaying body.... worst smell ive ever come across, anyways long story short the man came in giving us hell smelling up our store, causing a massive seen, all because he kept 2 xl rats in the small cardboard box we sold them in for one to many weeks

That's horrible...and disgusting... what a dumb@**

 

[celithemis]

This is a good one, I have told it to all our other employees and they laughed their @$$es off.

So this guy comes in, and he's a decent guy, done freshwater for years, knows his stuff. He has a 70ish gallon tank, regular T8 light and a fluval 405 filter, and it's empty now. He wants to convert it to saltwater but doesn't know the first thing about it and needs me to explain it to him. Great, that's fine, I set people up with saltwater all day, easy. What he said next was hillarious though. He said he went to Petland and asked them but they just confused the heck out of him. This young girl tells him his fluval filter is useless for saltwater (meanwhile I have the same one on my 55 reef), then they proceed to tell him that in order to use it, he will have to install a light INSIDE his filter and grow CORALS in it
In a fluval 405!

She must have been thinking of a refugium...

So I explained saltwater to him, sold him some live sand, live rock, and some salt, and he was happy he didn't need to light his canister filter. So I say thanks to Petland for that sale and our new happy saltwater customer who will continue to shop at our store and avoid Petland!

 

[Bazinga]

This is a good one, I have told it to all our other employees and they laughed their @$$es off.

So this guy comes in, and he's a decent guy, done freshwater for years, knows his stuff. He has a 70ish gallon tank, regular T8 light and a fluval 405 filter, and it's empty now. He wants to convert it to saltwater but doesn't know the first thing about it and needs me to explain it to him. Great, that's fine, I set people up with saltwater all day, easy. What he said next was hillarious though. He said he went to Petland and asked them but they just confused the heck out of him. This young girl tells him his fluval filter is useless for saltwater (meanwhile I have the same one on my 55 reef), then they proceed to tell him that in order to use it, he will have to install a light INSIDE his filter and grow CORALS in it
In a fluval 405!

She must have been thinking of a refugium...

So I explained saltwater to him, sold him some live sand, live rock, and some salt, and he was happy he didn't need to light his canister filter. So I say thanks to Petland for that sale and our new happy saltwater customer who will continue to shop at our store and avoid Petland!

lol nice