Last night, on the way home from our Aunt's funeral, my sister and I stopped in at The Bag Pipe on Broadway Blvd. in Garland. I wanted to show my sister where the closest brick and mortar store to where we both lived is located and to let the owner know about the display case that I have available. There were no other customers in the store. At the time, the owner, S.K., was not there - just a young sales lady. We decided to wait a bit for him to get back as we had nothing better to do at the time, and well, what vaper does not like the chance to chat with other vapers, (even with hubby and nephew patiently waiting in the car for us to finish our visit)?
We three talked and chatted while waiting for S.K. to return. The young lady admired the way my little sister 's battery lit up on the bottom and asked what it was and where she got it, so I told her that it was a Firefly and that it came from Liberty Flights, online. She also admired Melody's lanyard and asked where to get one of those, so we told her. She asked about the clearomizer that I was using and I told her it was a Kanger T2, to which she replied her boss had told her and routinely tells customers who come in the store and ask for them, "those are discontinued and no longer available". Thinking that perhaps she was just confused and/or misinformed I told her that Kanger T2s had not been discontinued as far as I know and that they are available in many online shops, and thus, I assumed, available for large orders for shops from several Chinese suppliers. We talked about how, sadly, some hardware items are so expensive once they got to the retail level and available to the general public. I suggested that if she were shopping for her personal use, she might want to look online at some of the direct Chinese suppliers which sell to the general public. Such as Health Cabin; Chinabuye, etc., but prepare to wait weeks, and sometimes MONTHS for the items to arrive and be aware that there is seldom an enforceable warranty on those products should something go wrong with one of them. Melody related how one of the batteries she got from a Chinese supplier had the power button get stuck and refuse to release, so she was scared and left it sitting on a brick wall that she was driving passed . we all laughed about that one.
Finally, after about 30 minutes of talking, laughing, and waiting we finally decided to leave because S.K. had still not returned. I left my name and phone number.
Less than an hour ago, I received a phone call from S.K. From the start of the phone call/rant, he was belligerent, loud, hateful, demeaning, and insulting to me. He did not bother to try to confirm any of what we 3 had chatted about while waiting for him to return to the shop - he just accused me of being a supplier, a distributor, and attempting to steal his business, or something to that effect. I could not get a word in edgewise for a good two minutes during his rant to try and explain that this was NOT the case, that I was (WAS!!!), one of his customers who had just stopped in to offer him a display case and to show my little sister where his shop was located so that he would have another customer who had been having a fun and educational chat with his sales clerk. After I managed to explain that to him, he became a bit more pleasant and admitted he was mistaken about my intentions. However, all in all, it was an extremely unpleasant phone call in which I was cursed, called the B word, and generally treated extremely poorly. I will never, ever again visit this store and I will never, EVER again send any business this mans way. There is something very wrong with a person who is incapable of , or unwilling to at first listen to what someone has to say to them before they go off half-cocked like this man did to me.
~Tiger
We three talked and chatted while waiting for S.K. to return. The young lady admired the way my little sister 's battery lit up on the bottom and asked what it was and where she got it, so I told her that it was a Firefly and that it came from Liberty Flights, online. She also admired Melody's lanyard and asked where to get one of those, so we told her. She asked about the clearomizer that I was using and I told her it was a Kanger T2, to which she replied her boss had told her and routinely tells customers who come in the store and ask for them, "those are discontinued and no longer available". Thinking that perhaps she was just confused and/or misinformed I told her that Kanger T2s had not been discontinued as far as I know and that they are available in many online shops, and thus, I assumed, available for large orders for shops from several Chinese suppliers. We talked about how, sadly, some hardware items are so expensive once they got to the retail level and available to the general public. I suggested that if she were shopping for her personal use, she might want to look online at some of the direct Chinese suppliers which sell to the general public. Such as Health Cabin; Chinabuye, etc., but prepare to wait weeks, and sometimes MONTHS for the items to arrive and be aware that there is seldom an enforceable warranty on those products should something go wrong with one of them. Melody related how one of the batteries she got from a Chinese supplier had the power button get stuck and refuse to release, so she was scared and left it sitting on a brick wall that she was driving passed . we all laughed about that one.
Finally, after about 30 minutes of talking, laughing, and waiting we finally decided to leave because S.K. had still not returned. I left my name and phone number.
Less than an hour ago, I received a phone call from S.K. From the start of the phone call/rant, he was belligerent, loud, hateful, demeaning, and insulting to me. He did not bother to try to confirm any of what we 3 had chatted about while waiting for him to return to the shop - he just accused me of being a supplier, a distributor, and attempting to steal his business, or something to that effect. I could not get a word in edgewise for a good two minutes during his rant to try and explain that this was NOT the case, that I was (WAS!!!), one of his customers who had just stopped in to offer him a display case and to show my little sister where his shop was located so that he would have another customer who had been having a fun and educational chat with his sales clerk. After I managed to explain that to him, he became a bit more pleasant and admitted he was mistaken about my intentions. However, all in all, it was an extremely unpleasant phone call in which I was cursed, called the B word, and generally treated extremely poorly. I will never, ever again visit this store and I will never, EVER again send any business this mans way. There is something very wrong with a person who is incapable of , or unwilling to at first listen to what someone has to say to them before they go off half-cocked like this man did to me.
~Tiger
