LFS awkward moment

[lostnight]

Couldn't agree more.

It's all about service and a willingness to learn.

Anyone remember Big Don's Pet Hut (Dayton, OH LFS circa 1988-92)? Now THAT was a store...

Matt

Yes, in Kettering on Stroop and Marshall? I loved that place. The had African Tiger Fish with huge teeth, and a 180 fillem with full grown Mayan cichlids and Hemichromis elongatus. I always wanted to get an aquarium like that, but the 5 spots always seem to kill each other off. There were of independent fish stores that were cool that are now gone. Sad.

 

[Matt724]

NOICE!

 

[dogofwar]

I worked there in high school.

Are there any LFS left in Dayton (other than Jacks, which is more of a pet store chain than a LFS in my book)?

Yes, in Kettering on Stroop and Marshall? I loved that place. The had African Tiger Fish with huge teeth, and a 180 fillem with full grown Mayan cichlids and Hemichromis elongatus. I always wanted to get an aquarium like that, but the 5 spots always seem to kill each other off. There were of independent fish stores that were cool that are now gone. Sad.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

Just practice being humble. I am sure some LFS workers might be tired to customers that think they know it all as well.

 

[GTS]

Just practice being humble. I am sure some LFS workers might be tired to customers that think they know it all as well.

What do you mean "try and be humble"? He was humble, he walked out of the store without a fuss. If he wanted to be an ass he could have grabbed any book on cichlids and showed them a picture of a dovii. Then he could have told management that an employee gave him false information. Who knows what would have happened to an employee of a store who made such a mistake? Maybe nothing or perhaps much worse. One should not be a jerk in such situations, but his being humble would not have changed the fact that the LFS made a mistake.

 

[dogofwar]

Agreed.

Whether it's Target or a LFS, it's not asking too much for the inventory to be properly labeled and priced...as much for the staff as for the customers.

What do you mean "try and be humble"? He was humble, he walked out of the store without a fuss. If he wanted to be an ass he could have grabbed any book on cichlids and showed them a picture of a dovii. Then he could have told management that an employee gave him false information. Who knows what would have happened to an employee of a store who made such a mistake? Maybe nothing or perhaps much worse. One should not be a jerk in such situations, but his being humble would not have changed the fact that the LFS made a mistake.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

What do you mean "try and be humble"? He was humble, he walked out of the store without a fuss. If he wanted to be an ass he could have grabbed any book on cichlids and showed them a picture of a dovii. Then he could have told management that an employee gave him false information. Who knows what would have happened to an employee of a store who made such a mistake? Maybe nothing or perhaps much worse. One should not be a jerk in such situations, but his being humble would not have changed the fact that the LFS made a mistake.

I know he was being humble. I was refering to all the posts that mention about LFS workers not knowing their fish.

 

[Diogenes]

I know he was being humble. I was refering to all the posts that mention about LFS workers not knowing their fish.

awww come on now. I was a fishkeeper for about 6 months before I realized most staff at most places where livestock is sold don't know a thing about fish. There are a few stores in MD that actually do have knowledgeable staff, and I am a loyal customer to those. I had an LFS employee in VA tell me that feeders were bad not because of parasites and other legitimate reasons why they're bad, but because tank raised fish are incapable of digesting live fish, and so the feeder will "rot" in the belly of the predator fish. Come on man... thats just crazy. Same guy told me my piranha was a pacu (it wasn't, it's actually the poster child for S. compressus...literally on OPEFE), and that blue acaras get upwards of 14."

that's just to name a few mistakes that spring to mind. There were many many more from that same store...

 

[ballist3k]

Sorry noobie here, but i love it when you get fish cheaper because they are classified as some other fish! thats my fav!!! Meijers FTW!!