went to the local good year the other week

got the dude at the counter to take me into the factory and show me the tires he was trying to sell me, in there there's this other dude, just too happy to offer advice with great confidence....

he says what are the tires for, i say for the front of my 1200,

he's like "oh all you need is these" (cheapest crap),
and i say "it's got a bit of go mate"
he "my lawnmowers got a bit of go!"
me "yeah but your lawnmowers not twin turbo and injected"
he after being a little gobsmacked
"oh you dont want these then, come over here you want these ones"

i left shortly after without tires needless to say

bet he was chocking on his smart comment as you walked out the door

Actually, my lawnmower dose have turbo.
My turbo mower

haha Good one Rallycar about time someone told those non-beleivers striaght!

haha I bet he was shocked! they seem to think they know everything, it's even worse when your a young bloke, older guys try to feed you the biggest loads of crap it just gets beyond the joke after a while!

I got into an argument once with a fellow at the tire store about putting balance weights on the inside of my wheels. I have cast aluminum wheels on my newer car, and he says they can't be balanced properly if the weights were put on the inside. I even pointed out to him that the weights were on the inside from the factory, but he wasn't having any of it.

Needless to say I bought tires elsewhere...

Good one. Reminds me that a good salesman listens first to get a bit of understanding about the customer, before trying to sell a particular way.

About the weights on the inside of aluminum rims: I've been told the same thing so many times (that it won't balance right unless weights go on inside and outside) that I bought an old-fashioned manual balancer and do it myself now.

Even worse, when they balanced my wheels on the "computerized" high tech balancer the 1200's steering wheel often shook and I had to take 'em back and have them do it over. Now when I do it myself, it's done right.

i once had an argument with a tyre fitter about getting tyres balanced at all,he seemed to think that it wasn't necessary for racing tyres as they aren't used for long.he only balanced them at my insistance.then,his moron helper takes the second rim & tyre,& ovals the rim trying to take the old tyre off.didn't impress me at all.maybe if they had sold me the tyres in the first place,they might have been more careful,but i was just getting them changed over,& they were the only people in adelaide that could handle 12 inch wide rims.

Speaking of wankers, I went into my local Lowes to buy a Shop Vac, and I see a bin of display models marked down. A nice old bag is helping me when this wanker comes up and says "Hmm, I see you're buying a display model sold AS IS ..." I'm feeling a bit cheeky, so I reply, "Nothing's AS IS in this store." And he thinks I'm serious and retorts "I don't know what planet you come from ..." And I interrupt him with "From the planet "THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT." And he says "Whoa! I guess I'll leave you guys alone." I was tempted to say "Good, no one asked you to butt in here in the first place," but I just chuckled to myself when I remembered the look on his face.

Its really frustrating when sales staff don't even know what they sell. I went into my local camping store to see if they had a 12 volt heater demister that I could use in the datto or even a 12 volt hairdryer. They said they didn't have anything like it so I just decided to have a look at what else they had. Not 3 metres from the counter, I found both the demister & hairdryer & when I showed the sales staff they said, "gee, I didn't even know we had them". Inspiring isn't it. Then I had exactly the same thing happened with door locks at supercheap. And they were in a specially made locked display cabinet, again no more than 3 metres from the counter.