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Ever thrown anyone out of your shop?
- Thread starter threeputt
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WVB
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Clients - No
Solicitors - Yes...
In fact just yesterday I threw a guy out... I pointed to the door with the lettering that states "NO SOLICITATION" he replied with "oh I thought that said no smoking"... That was it I blew up told him I was tired of their lame excuses... I had one guy come in and said "I am not Italian, I don't speak Sicilian".
Solicitors - Yes...
In fact just yesterday I threw a guy out... I pointed to the door with the lettering that states "NO SOLICITATION" he replied with "oh I thought that said no smoking"... That was it I blew up told him I was tired of their lame excuses... I had one guy come in and said "I am not Italian, I don't speak Sicilian".
Pro Image
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We put a silver bar of vinyl on a little boy car one time.......He had some windowtint on the glass and we matched it up as best as possible with in a 1/32 of inch........Should have taken 10 min turn into almost 30.........After we were done he looks up at me and whines It's CROOKED! Like hell it was I said, Well Im not paying for it......Wham off comes the vinyl is one pull.....I said have a nice day and the little F'er follows me back into the shop telling me that I had to redo the bar because I F'ed it up.........I snaped then, I had a spray bottle in my hand and up againts the wall the bottle went and out the door he ran.............
Jillbeans
New Member
Years ago, I guess I did, but in a wimpy way.
There was a family of evil-smelling gypsies who lived just down the street.
The father had a real condescending attitude towards women.
I was a new mom, broke, and lettered his carny wagon by hand for $250, which he sat in and watched me paint for 6 hours because he was in a hurry and supposedly couldn't walk back home due to health issues. He even complained if I got paint drips and kept asking for more illegal licensed Disney and WB characters on the damn thing, which had to be painted upside-down because it was a fold-out trailer.
He smelled like a rotten taco/sweaty nutsack and it had to be 90° inside the trailer.
I literally had milk dripping down my ribcage by the time he left (after paying me with $1 bills and trying to short me out of one!) My mom had come up to help with the baby and the other kids.
He came back the following week needing his wife's fortune teller A-boards repainted. I told him I was too busy, and wouldn't be able to work for him.
They left town about a month later and haven't been seen since.
One time I had to re-letter an insurance job, on a pickup I'd painted that tangled with a deer. The client's wife had designed the thing using the Microsoft Word distortion module, and it was ugly as sin. I was doing this thru a body shop, who had the insurance check. The bodyman's wife came out to check my work, and proclaimed it to be "crooked", and told me she wouldn't pay a dime until I fixed it. The client showed up and said it was just fine. So the bodyman came over in his towtruck to pay me, with his wife riding shotgun.
I told him, when he approached me with the check, to get his wife the hell out of my yard. With a look of long suffering, he sighed and drove off.
Oh and then there was the gal who ordered a sign, on her wood, who picked it up raving of how great it looked. Only to call back in a half-hour complaining that her BF didn't like it, that it was maroon and they had specifically ordered burgundy. Her father brought it back the next day with a can of burgundy paint and ordered me to repaint it. I told him to take the sign and the paint and never darken my doorstep again. Of course they stopped payment on their check. I always think evil thoughts when I drive past it, still maroon and sitting there taunting me.
Than many many moons ago there was a man for whom I'd painted some plywood signs (he gave me a $50 deposit) after delivering them, he called saying he didn't like them, that the lettering was too big. I told him to bring them back up to my shop. They are now the underlayment on my bathroom floor.
I once had a salesman type stop in and bug me, and when I pointed at my NO SOLICITORS sign he said "But I'm a lobbyist".
Also ran off two very aggressive YP beeyotches with the help of my older sister. They wouldn't take NO for an answer!
Sorry for the long post. Luckily all of those incidents are well over 10 years old. I'm learning not to take the BS so much from people.
Love....Jill
There was a family of evil-smelling gypsies who lived just down the street.
The father had a real condescending attitude towards women.
I was a new mom, broke, and lettered his carny wagon by hand for $250, which he sat in and watched me paint for 6 hours because he was in a hurry and supposedly couldn't walk back home due to health issues. He even complained if I got paint drips and kept asking for more illegal licensed Disney and WB characters on the damn thing, which had to be painted upside-down because it was a fold-out trailer.
He smelled like a rotten taco/sweaty nutsack and it had to be 90° inside the trailer.
I literally had milk dripping down my ribcage by the time he left (after paying me with $1 bills and trying to short me out of one!) My mom had come up to help with the baby and the other kids.
He came back the following week needing his wife's fortune teller A-boards repainted. I told him I was too busy, and wouldn't be able to work for him.
They left town about a month later and haven't been seen since.
One time I had to re-letter an insurance job, on a pickup I'd painted that tangled with a deer. The client's wife had designed the thing using the Microsoft Word distortion module, and it was ugly as sin. I was doing this thru a body shop, who had the insurance check. The bodyman's wife came out to check my work, and proclaimed it to be "crooked", and told me she wouldn't pay a dime until I fixed it. The client showed up and said it was just fine. So the bodyman came over in his towtruck to pay me, with his wife riding shotgun.
I told him, when he approached me with the check, to get his wife the hell out of my yard. With a look of long suffering, he sighed and drove off.
Oh and then there was the gal who ordered a sign, on her wood, who picked it up raving of how great it looked. Only to call back in a half-hour complaining that her BF didn't like it, that it was maroon and they had specifically ordered burgundy. Her father brought it back the next day with a can of burgundy paint and ordered me to repaint it. I told him to take the sign and the paint and never darken my doorstep again. Of course they stopped payment on their check. I always think evil thoughts when I drive past it, still maroon and sitting there taunting me.
Than many many moons ago there was a man for whom I'd painted some plywood signs (he gave me a $50 deposit) after delivering them, he called saying he didn't like them, that the lettering was too big. I told him to bring them back up to my shop. They are now the underlayment on my bathroom floor.
I once had a salesman type stop in and bug me, and when I pointed at my NO SOLICITORS sign he said "But I'm a lobbyist".
Also ran off two very aggressive YP beeyotches with the help of my older sister. They wouldn't take NO for an answer!
Sorry for the long post. Luckily all of those incidents are well over 10 years old. I'm learning not to take the BS so much from people.
Love....Jill
The Sign Dude
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I had a girl bring her bf truck in to get some window lettering done on the windows. I put stuff on the front and the back window as she requested. same color same vinyl. She calls me up the next day and says that all the vinyl had blew off her window when she left and wanted a refund. I told her to bring it by so I could look at it. well when she got there the lettering she claimed blew off was only the rear. I laughed and ask her what her bf didnt like about it and she gave me puzzled look wondering how I knew that. i told her there was no way the rear blew off but the front stayed. she left without saying a word never to return.
threeputt
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I actually dialed the police one time about two years ago. Customer became beligerent, obnoxious and very profane with employees. I asked him to leave and then things kinda went sideways. I'm not proud of the way I handled myself. (lost it a little)
Another guy was an out and out cheat. (woooo...big time land developer) Got loud real fast, too. He burned me for a couple hundred but he knows never to enter my store.
I'm in a "mill town" and it seems some people have learned that intimidation works for them. Huff and puff types. But it doesn't play real well at my shop.
Another guy was an out and out cheat. (woooo...big time land developer) Got loud real fast, too. He burned me for a couple hundred but he knows never to enter my store.
I'm in a "mill town" and it seems some people have learned that intimidation works for them. Huff and puff types. But it doesn't play real well at my shop.
Replicator
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Not Yet !
Matt Cuellar
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Jillbeans,
That's quite a description of the gypsie....smelled like taco meat and sweaty nutsack...mmmm, yummy!
We've got our list whiteboard list of who not to allow business from, but other than that, I've never had to physically escort anyone out, but it's only 12:30 here, so maybe in a few hours.
Matt
That's quite a description of the gypsie....smelled like taco meat and sweaty nutsack...mmmm, yummy!
We've got our list whiteboard list of who not to allow business from, but other than that, I've never had to physically escort anyone out, but it's only 12:30 here, so maybe in a few hours.
Matt
kgirl
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Hm-m-m-m-m..............
Let me see, which story do I start with first.
Yes.
Lots.
:Oops:... and I've been thrown out of places too.... mostly bars
I've been thrown out of a bank....and a bar
mystysue
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Its been about 8 or 9 months ago.. Bry threw a guy out of the shop.. And it was a big order too..lol.. There was this really strange guy.. who aid he belonged to the what he called the kiss army (kiss as in the band) and wanted stickers for some kiss museum When he first called and talked to bryan He was concerned about color matching.. so bryan told him.. we will work with you to get the colors right..
so he sent us the file.. and came in.. He has misunderstood i guess.. and thought bry meant he could sit and work at the computers with us.. when told no.. He got rather upset.. and his voice got screechy.. (and Jill im not sure what he smelled like.. but im sure it wasnt pencil shavings)
well he kept getting louder.. and louder.. and Bry told him.. OK we done.. You need to leave now..
He didnt.. wouldnt.. kept going on.. Im trying to calm bryan down.. who is very uspet at the point.. and Bryans nickname is Big B.. and the kiss army guy was a scrawney little guy.. and was just really odd.. Finially we got the guy to leave.. and he calls us from the parking lot telling us if he sees any of the stickers anywhere that he had sent us the design for he would sue us.. and for us to distroy all his files..
We told him gladly lol..
Any way.. He ended up calling about 5 more times, that nite.. with the last call He asidk.. umm can i talk to that nice lady (meaning me) that works in the shop so i can experdite (sp) my order.. at which bryan tells Him you dont have an order.. lol..
He did call several times over the next few days.. begging us to take him back as a customer and make the damm stickers..
We told him no way..lol
so he sent us the file.. and came in.. He has misunderstood i guess.. and thought bry meant he could sit and work at the computers with us.. when told no.. He got rather upset.. and his voice got screechy.. (and Jill im not sure what he smelled like.. but im sure it wasnt pencil shavings)
well he kept getting louder.. and louder.. and Bry told him.. OK we done.. You need to leave now..
He didnt.. wouldnt.. kept going on.. Im trying to calm bryan down.. who is very uspet at the point.. and Bryans nickname is Big B.. and the kiss army guy was a scrawney little guy.. and was just really odd.. Finially we got the guy to leave.. and he calls us from the parking lot telling us if he sees any of the stickers anywhere that he had sent us the design for he would sue us.. and for us to distroy all his files..
We told him gladly lol..
Any way.. He ended up calling about 5 more times, that nite.. with the last call He asidk.. umm can i talk to that nice lady (meaning me) that works in the shop so i can experdite (sp) my order.. at which bryan tells Him you dont have an order.. lol..
He did call several times over the next few days.. begging us to take him back as a customer and make the damm stickers..
We told him no way..lol
Craig Sjoquist
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ohhh this was fun reading lol ... the clients that try to beat my price down to much I just don't show up ... been booted out for trying to sell to hard, or trying to collect what's legally owed lol
freedom is not free
freedom is not free
SignosaurusRex
Active Member
Never had to throw anyone out or say anything other than "Please be on your way, as you have clearly outlasted your welcome and over-tested my patience" (in a calm yet gruff low tone) all the while, mustering a very evil eye and retrieving a 44 mag. cartridge from my pocket and placing it on the bench or counter. They have almost always left without another word. One of them did complain to the police once, however the officer taking the complaint happen to be a regular customer and a personal friend. I LMAO over that one. No harm done (except their feelings) & problem solved! Hey there "Kgirl", I once got THROWN out of "The Bank Bar" in Wilsall, Montana, but never a bank.