With the exception of a few decent stores that the bushcraft community know and trust, I am so sick to death of the miserable unwelcoming, refuse to haggle, can I help you? (As soon as you open the door), looking at you like your a nuisance, stroppy and unhelpful Army surplus stores...
is it something about the smell of the place or the constant flow of school kids trying to buy knives that drives them slowly insane? Or is it that they are struggling to make ends meet, and it's all everyone else fault (even though they sell at ridiculous high margins).
i work in a retail/trade shop myself, but is just don't get it?
so, I popped in my local shop, asking if they had any wool stuff or ex scandinavian stuff?.... No, they reply. I have a mooch round and find a beat up swedish M59 wool tunic! Result! And no price on it... Military mart sell them for a tenner.
How much I ask? Moody bloke disappears mumbling... Then comes back and says 20quid! (Crazy). I offer him a tenner, it's his last one, he didn't even know it was there... "No way he says, it cost me more than that to buy"...
you tight git I think to myself. You just lost a sale. He didn't even haggle... I'd have gone to 15 quid.
i walk out. What a waste of time.
idiot.
is it something about the smell of the place or the constant flow of school kids trying to buy knives that drives them slowly insane? Or is it that they are struggling to make ends meet, and it's all everyone else fault (even though they sell at ridiculous high margins).
i work in a retail/trade shop myself, but is just don't get it?
so, I popped in my local shop, asking if they had any wool stuff or ex scandinavian stuff?.... No, they reply. I have a mooch round and find a beat up swedish M59 wool tunic! Result! And no price on it... Military mart sell them for a tenner.
How much I ask? Moody bloke disappears mumbling... Then comes back and says 20quid! (Crazy). I offer him a tenner, it's his last one, he didn't even know it was there... "No way he says, it cost me more than that to buy"...
you tight git I think to myself. You just lost a sale. He didn't even haggle... I'd have gone to 15 quid.
i walk out. What a waste of time.
idiot.