Comments on: Roundup: MTB Nat’l Championships, Trail Mediators, and Bike Shop Ettiquette

By: rogerk

rogerk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:56:11 +0000

Sorry, but I think the guy who posted that “Etiquette” list doesn’t deserve his job. Local bike shops can’t compete with the internet on price. Where they can compete is customer service. If I’m going to spend the extra money to shop locally(I do), my local shop better be friendly, knowledgeable, and willing to help me out in a bind. Luckily, I live in a place that offers me a dozen or so such shops within a half-hour of home.

By: steve32300

steve32300 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:06:21 +0000

WOW,this dude is like a volcano,hahahahaaha.I used to deliver fitness equipment and everything always went pretty good(although I do have some more storys)except for my last delivery before changing jobs.This lady,after setting up $5000 worth of fitness equipment in her basement at the end of the day on company time allotted to her for what she paid,wanted everything moved after 3 hours of building the equipment from scratch and said she wasnt willing to pay another dime for it,I wont go into the ensuing details but her husband called me personally on my cell phone later in the day to appologize for his wife’s attitude.hahahahaahahaha.

By: Goo

Goo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:00:14 +0000

Genius! I think the last sentence was best of all… (you’ll have to go check it out)

By: element22

element22 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:17:12 +0000

Man I love it…But you forgot a few….

Here is one situation that I had to personally deal with. A lady comes into the shop looking for shorts. She however nice she may have been is unfortunately a bit on the heavy side, and grabbed a pair of short (size medium) and put them on then came out of the change room and asked…Do these make me look fat. Trying my best not to say Of course they do, you need XL, I tried being nice by saying how does your legs feel at the elastic area, trying to give her a hint that her circulation was beginning to cut off. Anyhow She still purchased them.

I also had someone call and ask how much would it cost to fix my bike…I have a funny noise coming from the crank when I pedal… Do you have any clue what I really wanted to say. Gessh some people.