29th-Jun-20, 07:38 AM
How I learnt to not shop in bricks and mortar stores.
Recently, two weeks back, I tried to buy two 4TB NAS rated hard drives locally, of all six stores I phoned including Harvey Norman not one had it in stock, three simply were not even interested in the sale or discussion, with one completely losing the plot and saying, exact wording: f^&k off buddy hanging the phone up on me, that business which I will state here is:
Holiday Coast Office, Taree, NSW, 2430, Dave Vernon (part owner)
who I was speaking with is one of the two owners of this pathetic business, someone who should know better than to speak that way to people in a small rural city, needless to say, I headed straight over to womo.com.au (Word Of Mouth Online) and left a review for this pathetic business man, and secondly the business itself.
This is the first I have mentioned this on a group or forum, though I have been and am still contemplating a Facebook post about this dip$hit.
Dave Vernon stated "people would rather head online just to save seven percent (7%)", and why wouldn't I when I am spending $4,500.00, a saving of $315.00. I went to my go-to online retailer mwave.com.au and placed the order with them, saving a total of $417 including free shipping.
I have pretty well given up supporting all local businesses in Taree, NSW, 2430 being able to supply anything other than the cheap and nasty products across any and all products you can think of.
There are major surprises along the way though which last week I found, Epson (epson.com.au) retailing their own printer at $449.00, yet Bing Lee are retailing the exact same printer for $319.00, I contacted both Epson and Bing Lee to see if this was an error on either behalf and Epson and Bing Lee both said No that is correct.. I was, and am still completely perplexed as to how the manufacturer can be $130.00 more expensive than one of their retailer outlets... needless to say I bought from Bing Lee.
Local businesses, regardless of the town, city, world location must wake the hell up and realise that we all have limited disposable income in these very hard times and if they want out money and business then they must behave, speak and treat all customers with much better attitudes and pricing to some degree, otherwise, the business will simply go broke and be forced to close, permanently.
Recently, two weeks back, I tried to buy two 4TB NAS rated hard drives locally, of all six stores I phoned including Harvey Norman not one had it in stock, three simply were not even interested in the sale or discussion, with one completely losing the plot and saying, exact wording: f^&k off buddy hanging the phone up on me, that business which I will state here is:
Holiday Coast Office, Taree, NSW, 2430, Dave Vernon (part owner)
who I was speaking with is one of the two owners of this pathetic business, someone who should know better than to speak that way to people in a small rural city, needless to say, I headed straight over to womo.com.au (Word Of Mouth Online) and left a review for this pathetic business man, and secondly the business itself.
This is the first I have mentioned this on a group or forum, though I have been and am still contemplating a Facebook post about this dip$hit.
Dave Vernon stated "people would rather head online just to save seven percent (7%)", and why wouldn't I when I am spending $4,500.00, a saving of $315.00. I went to my go-to online retailer mwave.com.au and placed the order with them, saving a total of $417 including free shipping.
I have pretty well given up supporting all local businesses in Taree, NSW, 2430 being able to supply anything other than the cheap and nasty products across any and all products you can think of.
There are major surprises along the way though which last week I found, Epson (epson.com.au) retailing their own printer at $449.00, yet Bing Lee are retailing the exact same printer for $319.00, I contacted both Epson and Bing Lee to see if this was an error on either behalf and Epson and Bing Lee both said No that is correct.. I was, and am still completely perplexed as to how the manufacturer can be $130.00 more expensive than one of their retailer outlets... needless to say I bought from Bing Lee.
Local businesses, regardless of the town, city, world location must wake the hell up and realise that we all have limited disposable income in these very hard times and if they want out money and business then they must behave, speak and treat all customers with much better attitudes and pricing to some degree, otherwise, the business will simply go broke and be forced to close, permanently.
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