Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Total Shocker!

Last night Patrick and I went to RC Willey to look at some furniture for our new house. We were trying to get an idea of what we want, and how much we'll need to save up for it. So we are just browsing around, looking at different sofas, love seats, chairs, coffee table, etc. And of course we have like every sales person around trying to follow us and swoop in to get the sale. Too bad for them, we weren't there to buy yet, just look. Yet, no matter how many times we told the annoying sales people we were just looking, there were a few that kept following us around. One guy who had been following us for a little bit saw us sitting on a couch, and the matching chair, and came and told us how great it was, but that it was being discontinued. Then we move onto another sofa/love seat set, and he says the same thing, that it is being discontinued. To me, that seemed weird, but I wasn't too upset, I didn't have my heart set on those pieces or anything, so we kept looking. While we were there, we were trying to slyly write down the sku numbers of the things that we liked. We did this because Patrick's cousin works at RC Willey up in Orem and she told us that anything that we see that we like, just write down the sku, and she can get it for us, and we'd get her family discount. Awesome! So that is what we did, we found a few things that we liked enough to write the number down, including those 2 different sets that Mr. Salesmen told us were being discontinued. So as soon as we leave the store, Patrick calls his cousin and sent her a text of the sku numbers so she can look them up, and he mentions the ones the are being "discontinued" and ask her to check into that. She calls back like 5 minutes later, and says that nothing on our list is being discontinued, that the sales guy was probably just saying that to get a sale. I was kinda shocked by that!! 

Really, you are so desperate for a sale that you are lying to customers that something they want isn't going to be around for long?? That is a little sad and annoying to me. I know you work off commission and everything buddy, but I really don't think you would have made much off a couch and chair that together was only like $800! Does anyone else find this just crazy?? I know that most people out there are looking out for #1, but it really annoyed me that he was lying to us just to get us to buy something from him. Little did he know that we aren't gonna buy from him anyways, cuz we actually have someone who isn't going to lie to us to get a sale, and she is giving us a discount!


So the moral of this story is..... DON'T LIE!!!!! It so doesn't get you anywhere! And don't believe stupid sales people who follow you around a store!

5 comments:

Ashley said...

You are cute thinking that salesmen don't lie. lol :P

Lisa Koehler said...

I can't stand salesmen. Speaking of your house. How's it coming?

Denice Harrison Armstrong said...

Yeah sales people are really STUPID!! They tired doing that to us at Wilson Bates and we basically told them if they didn't leave us alone we would leave and if we had questions we would come find them! They seemed to back off!! I guess if you are not nice to them they start to see how they are not being nice to you!

Rhia Jean said...

You should go back to the store and call him out on that. Well, no, then he would just lie to you again. You should see how many lies you can get him to tell you. Yeah, much more fun.

Laura said...

We just went through this....those people are like care sales men it makes me crazy! Just be honest it always works!