Preaching to the choir, Jason.
This gave me a good laugh - I
was in the choir, and had to listen to the same sermon three times.
Guess no one actually
reads anymore.
If anyone needs any cars, I'm all ears. Just keep in mind shipping is around $3.50 to $4.00 for basic slow mail + delivery confirmation.
That's very handsome of you, R1600 - you are a good man, and a true collector at heart.
I've found that genuine collectors always go out of their way to help others with their collections. After all, the cowries are always different on another beach.
Like Harry, I also smell bull-shiitake on their refusal to sell. He probably thought it was an error on the price tape, or that he wanted to keep them for himself?
That was my first assumption. No Autozones here. Maybe that's a good thing: if that is the best management material that Autozone can hire, then they're scraping the bottom of the barrel - and I'm beginning to understand the unemployment in America. Apart from the huge training sessions that Retail store managers have to attend about everything from Inventory Management to Labour Law, there is also that very special subject called Customer Service that is never ignored. And is priority. The higher you go in the company, the harder you
show that you care about the customer.
As for the deal about the penny cars - that is what is known in the industry as a 'loss leader' and is featured as part of a 'Bait & Switch' marketing campaign. It is used to bring customers into the store - usually the customer who drives all the way to the store for the penny item will also purchase something else - a jug of washerfluid, a chamois, maybe some tool (since they have already 'saved' some money and will put it on something else.) The store would also have sufficient stock, at least for the first few days of the promotion, after which they can tell the 'latecomers' that it was out of stock. Most customers, having already entered the store (the primary move concerning customers) will purchase something anyway.
To walk in and only buy the promo items - as R1600 did - is anathema to the sales staff; customers who actually buy other stuff need to be rewarded.
Maybe the stores spread the news about him, and the receipt was faxed to other stores with a description - who knows.
I was, of course, on R1600's side, and advising any ploy that would help him succeed in getting those cars,
Now . . . what is this I hear about a devastating dump of old cars that was going to obliterate the 'supermarket' ones being trended?
they had a vw type something. Are the 1penny hot wheels boulevards?
I mean, can you imagine Boulevard Civic, but from the 70's? Wait for it..... Le-gen-da-ry.
