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Ok, I hope someone here can help me out with a little problem I have been having with my local hobby shop. ( Edited, totally uncalled for and not wanted or needed here!...- NCNitro)
My Local hobby shop, witch I am not going to name is right down the street from me. Thru all means possible, I can not locate a decent shop ANYWHERE near my house. It is a fairl large hobby shop, got a nice selection and most of the people are nice. it is sectioned off into several diffrent genra's (sp?)
There's the R/c section, the electric section, die-cast, military, air plane etc.
Now I will get to the section in question. R/c, namely nitro. there are several people working in this shop. The lady that checks you out after you pick your parts, the guys over the other sections and then there is the guy over the Nitro division. We will call him... Doug, for all intents and purposes.
Now, Doug is an allright guy, allthough a little overbearing and... well- Mean.
He knows I am new to nitro racing, he knows I didn't know jack about it the first time I stepped into the store. Here is my problem. Doug is the R/c guy as mentioned above. He is the only person I can deal with when I go in the store. The first time I went in the store Doug looked at my smartech and litirally called me a "Noobie" yes, he actually called me that. now, I can take a joke. But he has adopted it as a nickname for me now, and I don't appreciate it. After the name calling sesion he asked me what I wanted. i told him I wanted a small fuel filter, a new tuned pipe, a new set of tires, a glow plug, some goos fuel, some after run and other misc. poop.
He then showed me an extra large fuel filter, I am assuming meant for a REVO'ish size rig. I told him I wanted a SMALL filter, so with a sigh of exasperation he goes and gets it. He then tried to sell me a Trinity tuned pipe, but told me I would need to buy a specail extender that loops around, from the right side of the eni\gine, across the front extending to the back. I pointed out one that I thought would look nice, and again he sighed and got it. It works fine, no extender needed, even tho he said they carry "nothing that will fit without modification to your engine." This was pretty much the tone of the entire conversation for the rest of the picking process. He was condesending, rude and generally uninformed on the stuff I needed.
I then got up to pay for the stuff, The chick rang me up, did not say a word to me, then just sat her ass back down to much on a huge bag of dorito's. So I meekly motioned for her attention. She came over and asked what I needed and I told her I was curious about thier track. She started to explain it to me, the prices and such, so I signed up. Ten bucks later I am standing by the door, she is too busy to pay any heed to me. I finnally get ahold of a NICE person (kinda a rare thing here) and ask him the all important question, Wheres the ****** track AT? So I go out and race a few laps, then go home.
Also edited, for continual use of excessive profanity...NCNitro
I come in a few days later and the same poop unfolds. Now, after this long ass chain of events, i am going to ask someone else for help. How, without sounding like an butthead can I tell this guy to show some decency? He just wants to sell the most expensive part to whoever he can, and he still calls me Noobie. Anything I ask, he just gives some mediocre answer then points out how he could sell me something to fix it. As I poited out before, I can't go anywhere else. I need to tell this guy to quit being such an ass and just act nicely to someone who could possibly mean a lot of extra business for him. I have already bought two new rigs and plan on keeping them in good shape.
HELP ME!
My Local hobby shop, witch I am not going to name is right down the street from me. Thru all means possible, I can not locate a decent shop ANYWHERE near my house. It is a fairl large hobby shop, got a nice selection and most of the people are nice. it is sectioned off into several diffrent genra's (sp?)
There's the R/c section, the electric section, die-cast, military, air plane etc.
Now I will get to the section in question. R/c, namely nitro. there are several people working in this shop. The lady that checks you out after you pick your parts, the guys over the other sections and then there is the guy over the Nitro division. We will call him... Doug, for all intents and purposes.
Now, Doug is an allright guy, allthough a little overbearing and... well- Mean.
He knows I am new to nitro racing, he knows I didn't know jack about it the first time I stepped into the store. Here is my problem. Doug is the R/c guy as mentioned above. He is the only person I can deal with when I go in the store. The first time I went in the store Doug looked at my smartech and litirally called me a "Noobie" yes, he actually called me that. now, I can take a joke. But he has adopted it as a nickname for me now, and I don't appreciate it. After the name calling sesion he asked me what I wanted. i told him I wanted a small fuel filter, a new tuned pipe, a new set of tires, a glow plug, some goos fuel, some after run and other misc. poop.
He then showed me an extra large fuel filter, I am assuming meant for a REVO'ish size rig. I told him I wanted a SMALL filter, so with a sigh of exasperation he goes and gets it. He then tried to sell me a Trinity tuned pipe, but told me I would need to buy a specail extender that loops around, from the right side of the eni\gine, across the front extending to the back. I pointed out one that I thought would look nice, and again he sighed and got it. It works fine, no extender needed, even tho he said they carry "nothing that will fit without modification to your engine." This was pretty much the tone of the entire conversation for the rest of the picking process. He was condesending, rude and generally uninformed on the stuff I needed.
I then got up to pay for the stuff, The chick rang me up, did not say a word to me, then just sat her ass back down to much on a huge bag of dorito's. So I meekly motioned for her attention. She came over and asked what I needed and I told her I was curious about thier track. She started to explain it to me, the prices and such, so I signed up. Ten bucks later I am standing by the door, she is too busy to pay any heed to me. I finnally get ahold of a NICE person (kinda a rare thing here) and ask him the all important question, Wheres the ****** track AT? So I go out and race a few laps, then go home.
Also edited, for continual use of excessive profanity...NCNitro
I come in a few days later and the same poop unfolds. Now, after this long ass chain of events, i am going to ask someone else for help. How, without sounding like an butthead can I tell this guy to show some decency? He just wants to sell the most expensive part to whoever he can, and he still calls me Noobie. Anything I ask, he just gives some mediocre answer then points out how he could sell me something to fix it. As I poited out before, I can't go anywhere else. I need to tell this guy to quit being such an ass and just act nicely to someone who could possibly mean a lot of extra business for him. I have already bought two new rigs and plan on keeping them in good shape.
HELP ME!
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