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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 570794, member: 51"]Just thought about another customer (dis-service) event at another estate sale a month ago. This sale wasn't the same folks, but professionally run by a well regarded local company.</p><p><br /></p><p>I walked in on an argument. Some woman was buying a bed pillow that was marked "$3". It was a pillow and pillow case together. When she got up to the counter the sellers said, "The pillow inside isn't included". The buyer and sellers were fighting back and forth about this. Actually thought the buyer had a point, can't imagine a used bed pillow having that much separate value, plus it was marked as one price, and now everyone at the sale was listening. Further, the buyer had just laid out $150 on other purchases! The estate sale held to their guns and would not include the pillow.</p><p><br /></p><p>I kept to myself, but as I was walking out I ran into the buyer on the sidewalk and I said something like, "Jeez, that was bizarre". She said, "Yeah. And I'm going home to write a bunch of online reviews about this company."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 570794, member: 51"]Just thought about another customer (dis-service) event at another estate sale a month ago. This sale wasn't the same folks, but professionally run by a well regarded local company. I walked in on an argument. Some woman was buying a bed pillow that was marked "$3". It was a pillow and pillow case together. When she got up to the counter the sellers said, "The pillow inside isn't included". The buyer and sellers were fighting back and forth about this. Actually thought the buyer had a point, can't imagine a used bed pillow having that much separate value, plus it was marked as one price, and now everyone at the sale was listening. Further, the buyer had just laid out $150 on other purchases! The estate sale held to their guns and would not include the pillow. I kept to myself, but as I was walking out I ran into the buyer on the sidewalk and I said something like, "Jeez, that was bizarre". She said, "Yeah. And I'm going home to write a bunch of online reviews about this company."[/QUOTE]
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