Re: B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)

"=(8)" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote

> As for Ritz I don't know how they stay in business. They people are
stupid 
> and their prices are high and they keep pu****ng the extended warranties.

> They are in many ways like CompUSA which is another store I don't know
how 
> it stays in business.

After staying in business for a long while (and I don't know how
I manage it either) I have come to the following observations:

o Along with bad stores there are bad customers.  You don't want a good 
store
  to be all clogged up with bad customers.  So all the bad customers
  go to all the bad stores and everyone is happy.

o Bad customers are also suckers and "Never give a sucker an even break"
  is very good advice.  If a sucker gets an even break the
  sucker^H^H^H^Hcustomer is sure he is being screwed.  Conversely
  if he is being screwed he is happy because now he's being treated
  the way he has been treated his whole life through.  The concept
  that he is always treated badly (and asks for it) never enters
  his head because he _knows_ he has _always_ been treated well.

-- 
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters
http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com