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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Rude Record Store Clerks |
| Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 00:38:59 -0400 |
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At Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 23:42:59 Stewart wrote:
>Special props should be given to the guy who would let me pile a stack of
>LPs between 12 and 24 inches high on the counter, flick through to cull out
>the three or four particularly rare/expensive items, and then quote me a
>price of twenty or thirty bucks for the rest.
Peter Dunn at the Vinyl Museum during the store's final death throws on
Lakeshore Blvd. allowed folks to take a foot worth of LPs for $12.00.....a
buck an inch. I took a van to the store on its last day and loaded what I
could fit into the vehicle for about $450.
As far as rude store clerks go...I nominate Brian Taylor (ex frontman for
Toronto punk act Youth Youth Youth) at Record Peddler in Toronto. He'd just
as soon humiliate you in front of all the other customers then let you buy a
Talking Heads or post-Ozzy Black Sabbath record. My question was always: why
carry records of artists you don't actually want to sell to your customers?
The staff there never seemed to have an answer....just made snide comments
about your purchases as you brought them to the counter. I remember many
times seeing customers leave the store empty handed after Taylor embarrassed
them openly.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
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