Hey all…

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like being talked to like I just crawled out of a cave by sales persons when out doing some shopping.  Yeah, knucklehead me…just crawled out of a hole now sell me something for a stupid price…duh. 

Anyway, I was out doing some furniture shopping the other day and decided to stop by one of the local places that was having one of those “we’ll beat anyone’s price...or we’ll give you a new Lexus” or “nobody has lower prices that we do…not even the big out of town chain stores” adds.  Ah, another good one is the “talk to our friendly sales staff…we do not hire some out of town company like other big name stores”…blah, blah, blah.  So I figure, what the heck.  Doh!  Well, as soon as I walk in the door this sweet little grandmotherly type snatches me by the arm and starts with the smoozing.  La-la-la…this is what I was looking for…la-la-la…this is what I was interested in.  For some reason though the first thing that I told her was that I had been in the store on several other occasions and had seen some pieces that I liked and had priced them at that time.  Oh, but I guess that didn’t come through when I was getting the smoozing.  It didn’t take but a few minutes to see that somehow all of the “original list price” had somehow grown overnight like a fungus grows behind the sink basin.  Boom…price explosion!  So, my new best buddy from Utah (not a local after all…mmmmm) is showing me around when I notice the exact same piece ( and I mean the exact same floor model that I had seen the year before) that I had priced before had somehow grown in value to the point that now one piece was as much as the three piece set cost last year.  Uh….one plus one is five….right? 

I bickered and haggled with them for a little while and they of course gave me the big “what’s it going to take to get you in this today” and “we’re getting ready to do the books and would like to get this off” lines.  I quoted my price and it was just not where they thought it should be.  “Let me talk to my boss…who will talk to his boss” so on and so forth.  Talk about getting hoodwinked. 

Needless to say…I do believe that their four-year-old floor display is still there.  I just don’t know if I have the heart to go in and make a scene in the hopes of getting my new Lexus from them.  On the other hand though…it is a new Lexus.

So, today brings a new day and new adventures in furniture shopping.  Maybe someone is giving away a free trip to Vegas or someplace else if you buy something from them. 

Man, I want to go back to Vegas…cha-ching!

Have a super day!