Questions not to ask traders!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Just for fun, following on from the Bacchus thread,  from times I've helped out Timecast, and based loosely on a conversation from when I used to work in Oddbins ("Do you sell red wine?")
A list of questions never to ask traders at show:

"What's the best discount you can give me on that (already heavily reduced item)?"

"Will you be doing a 28mm scale Huegomont?"
"Do you have 28mm Sci-fi terrain?"
"Have you got a 28mm samurai castle?"
Can I just lick that brush to test it?"

[Leman]

When you're quite bright it's difficult to think up stupid questions, other than, "Do you have any tartan paint?"

[Ithoriel]

I worked in the FLGS on an irregular basis and was involved in a conversation that went something like this.

Me: Can I help you? You look like you're trying to find something.

Customer: I'd like a cabbage.

Me: ... (Looks around at an array of dolls, board games, footballs and the like)

Customer stares fixedly at me.

Me: We're a games shop. We sell children's toys, toy soldiers, board games ...

Customer (giving me a hard Paddington Bear stare): I WANT a cabbage.

Me: Sorry, we don't sell cabbages ... we're a toy shop.

Customer: Well you USED to be a greengrocers!!

Customer storms out, unsuccessfully slamming a self-closing door.

Shop hadn't been a greengrocer for years at that point.

[FierceKitty]

"Why don't you just go into computer games?"

[Orcs]

 "There quite nice but I think  X's are better"

This new range your bringing out will it match company Y's, as they don't do the Fusilier in stockings and suspenders  that I want a unit of to finish my army.

At a Show,

" I had a really good ay in today as this how is only 5 mins from my house"
"You must make HUGE profit at shows with all these people her"
"It must be like having a day off when you go to a show"
"If I buy an army I don't want to carry it around  will you post it free of charge to Timbuktu??

Or Topically

"I just want a single pot of paint Mr Berry"

[jimduncanuk]

A list of questions never to ask traders at show:

"Will you be doing a 28mm scale Huegomont?"

Here's the 2018 answer to that question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RVBQdQYyl0&feature=youtu.be

[toxicpixie]

Wait till they're packing up then ask for something they've slipped into a box already.

[fsn]

"Which way to the Pendraken stand?"

[Techno]

I worked in the FLGS on an irregular basis and was involved in a conversation that went something like this.
Me: Can I help you? You look like you're trying to find something.
Customer: I'd like a cabbage.
Me: ... (Looks around at an array of dolls, board games, footballs and the like)
Customer stares fixedly at me.
Me: We're a games shop. We sell children's toys, toy soldiers, board games ...
Customer (giving me a hard Paddington Bear stare): I WANT a cabbage.
Me: Sorry, we don't sell cabbages ... we're a toy shop.
Customer: Well you USED to be a greengrocers!!
Customer storms out, unsuccessfully slamming a self-closing door.
Shop hadn't been a greengrocer for years at that point.

Is that true, Mike ?
Absolutely wonderful if it is. 

Cheers - Phil

[Westmarcher]

A friend of my wife, looking at the menu in a restaurant menu, asked the waiter: "Will I like that?"

He didn't know her from Adam (or should that be Eve?).

[FierceKitty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHg6QjhvsCM

For Paddington fans.

[FierceKitty]

A friend of my wife, looking at the menu in a restaurant menu, asked the waiter: "Will I like that?"

He didn't know her from Adam (or should that be Eve?).

waitress?

[Leman]

Would you like anything from the trolley?

Yes please, can I have the handles and casters.

[Ithoriel]

Is that true, Mike ?
Absolutely wonderful if it is. 

Cheers - Phil

Word for word? Not quite. But the gist, absolutely.

A story I have trotted out at a few management seminars where the speaker was trying to assure us that,"The customer is always right."

Apparently, "Some customers aren't even right in the head" is not a PC response

[Leman]

Is a WPC response not a PC response these days?