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Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 22 Feb 2018, 12:58
by kiwikrasher
Cav wrote:Sales people who don't push the hard sale.
We placed an order on some oak furniture last night. We were offered coffee through the 2 hours we were there and rearranged their showroom to match our living room; to the centimeter. An hour or more was taken to deliberate and during this time we were not pestered; it was bliss.
While placing the order there were no hard sales of added extras, we knew we wanted pads for under the feet of the chairs/tables and we knew we wanted a protection plan (because our home insurance doesn't cover it). There were extras he could have sold but didn't. We walked out feeling very happy with them...
...Knock on wood, I hope it all works out well
Good to hear mate, I know they have to make coin, but sometimes their pestering costs them money. Times when I've had an experience like yourself, that makes me more willing to go back. When the opposite has happened, I've avoided them for future sales like the plague.
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 22 Feb 2018, 14:12
by Cav
kiwikrasher wrote:Cav wrote:Sales people who don't push the hard sale.
We placed an order on some oak furniture last night. We were offered coffee through the 2 hours we were there and rearranged their showroom to match our living room; to the centimeter. An hour or more was taken to deliberate and during this time we were not pestered; it was bliss.
While placing the order there were no hard sales of added extras, we knew we wanted pads for under the feet of the chairs/tables and we knew we wanted a protection plan (because our home insurance doesn't cover it). There were extras he could have sold but didn't. We walked out feeling very happy with them...
...Knock on wood, I hope it all works out well
Good to hear mate, I know they have to make coin, but sometimes their pestering costs them money. Times when I've had an experience like yourself, that makes me more willing to go back. When the opposite has happened, I've avoided them for future sales like the plague.
I follow your pattern, I don't want to go back somewhere that's pushy
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 22 Feb 2018, 21:48
by Frankie
Nobody... early start late finish - Norwich and back.....
Why are other drivers getting worse, selfish and totally useless...
So I praise myself for having patients LMAO
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 10:43
by Cav
Aha, nice self-praise, Frankie.. someone has to
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 19:30
by Deegee
The friendly 4x4 driver that pulled my van out of the semi-frozen snowdrift it sank into at 6:30am this morning, he turned up after I’d been digging for 20mins, but it took his tricked out Disco another 30 mins to eventually get me out. This top bloke wouldn’t take a penny for his trouble, just a spare pair of fur lined work gloves I had on board (he had no gloves and frozen hands!), I’d guess I’m not the only one with a debt to pay forward this evening?
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 03 Sep 2018, 12:57
by kiwikrasher
Community spirit.
My daughter has a school friend that lives a few doors down and her step mum is a JP. I was down there the other day getting documents verified for my income protection claim. I know them pretty well so when she asked why I was doing a claim, I was pretty open as to why.
Well today there was a knock on the door and there was Paul and Lea with a still oven warm zucchini bake. She told me to freeze it so when I get out of hospital I’d get a couple of easy meals out of it.
Really touching gesture and exactly why I love living up in this community.
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 03 Sep 2018, 13:03
by Kwacky
If food is still warm it has to be eaten there and then. You know the rules.
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 03 Sep 2018, 13:11
by D41
Seconded.
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 03 Sep 2018, 22:34
by kiwikrasher
Kwacky wrote:If food is still warm it has to be eaten there and then. You know the rules.
It was too early for dinner and they specifically said it was to make life easier when I’m back. Currently still reasonably capable, so I’d rather leave the easy meals till later.
But it was hard to leave it, smelled delicious
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 09:26
by Cav
That kind of gesture is fairly infrequent but extremely gratifying when it happens. You've got some good neighbours
right there
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 09:34
by kiwikrasher
Cav wrote:That kind of gesture is fairly infrequent but extremely gratifying when it happens. You've got some good neighbours
right there
To be honest Cav, the community up the hill where I live is amazing. It is proper neighbourly. A good percentage of my street get together every Christmas for drinks and a BBQ
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 09:55
by duke63
kiwikrasher wrote:Community spirit.
My daughter has a school friend that lives a few doors down and her step mum is a JP. I was down there the other day getting documents verified for my income protection claim. I know them pretty well so when she asked why I was doing a claim, I was pretty open as to why.
Well today there was a knock on the door and there was Paul and Lea with a still oven warm zucchini bake. She told me to freeze it so when I get out of hospital I’d get a couple of easy meals out of it.
Really touching gesture and exactly why I love living up in this community.
The world is full of good people...so why do the cvnts running the show always try and make us distrust each other?
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 10:39
by D41
How do they do that??
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 14:32
by StMarks
duke63 wrote:....The world is full of good people...so why do the cvnts running the show always try and make us distrust each other?
D41 wrote:How do they do that??
Seriously Daz.?????
Where to start....???
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 14:52
by D41
Starting at the beginning might be worth a shot??
I'm the trusting type.
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 14:59
by StMarks
D41 wrote:Starting at the beginning might be worth a shot??.
Genesis 1-3...................................................................
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 04 Sep 2018, 15:03
by D41
Hmmmm.....
"In the beginning, good always overpowered the evil of all men's sins".
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 05 Sep 2018, 08:10
by duke63
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 05 Sep 2018, 08:38
by Kwacky
/doffs cap
Re: What do you want to praise today?
Posted: 05 Sep 2018, 10:25
by C00kiemonster
