We’ve been talking off and on about getting a new stove. Having to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving for atleast 2 extra hours because my oven is so screwy is a bit much, not to mention what the gas bill looks like afterwards.
A few months back we bought a new fridge at Sears, so we figured we’d go back and get a stainless steel stove to go with the stainless steel fridge.
The person that sold us the fridge wasn’t there, so we got stuck with this arrogent, pushy jackass that will never get a sale from us…ever.
Needless to say, he didn’t get the sale and I’ll wait until the woman we purchased from before it back on, or my one former bosses who works there part time. I’ve since forgiven him for some of the lip service he gave me a number of years ago.
For a bunch of people that are so commision happy, one would think they would treat potential customers halfway decent. I guess not…
Lately my peeve has been when you WANT the salesperson to give you the spiel, and it’s like pulling teeth to get any information out of them. Aargh . . .
Why didn’t you just screw with him? Have him dig up all kinds of obscure facts on five different models so that you can compare. Ask him to walk through each one in person with you physically simulating every single feature while you do imaginary cooking. Wait around the store and have him paged for a new question every time he walks away. After all that, tell him: “I’ve thought about it and I’m not really comfortable buying a stove from a man. If you can tell me your five favorite stove and oven recipes in detail right now, I will buy it from you. Otherwise I am going to wait until I can get someone that knows what their doing like Lady Salesperson X.” No matter what answers he gives reply: “Is your manager around by any chance?”
Damn, that’s a shame you had to go through that. Maybe I was lucky, but when I finally repolaced my pathetically feeble old gas range, the sales guy at Best Buy couldn’t do enough for me. Without going overboard into pushiness, he was helpful, helpful, helpful, even made sure I got a small discount because it couldn’t be delivered as quickly as he’d promised when we did up the paperwork, and called me to check that it got delivered when it was supposed to.
I’m sure he was working on commission, and he earned every penny of it. Do the Sears salespeople work on commission or straight salary?