[HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square

Dear Uncle Bob,

Now that you have some first hand experience of the wonderfull selection of 
customers 
that visit shops all equiped with a good sense of humor and good manners as 
well you 
will probably have a better understanding for some remarkable answers our 
esteemed
clientele are treated to.

My last buyer for a mint 150 CF lens not only wanted a discount and a leather 
pouch
that was not part of the deal.
On top of all that she finally decided she wanted another 5 euro of the price.

That is the moment I say "next please"
It is not decent, it is a pure waste of time, and will get you for the rest of 
your live dependant 
on those funny little red pills to control your bloodpressure.

I like to do fair deals where we both have the feeling it is fun and most 
important where
the customer can look back with pleasure and is encouraged to come again.
In other words I like to leave the church in the middle of the village.

My best customer was a gentleman with a list of small items for Hasselblad 
cameras and 
lenses from the fities and sixties, filters, adapters, flash adapter, a strap, 
focussing screen.
All the things that make a camera into a the complete system that Hasselblad is.
These items came from my cabinet with a large number of drawers containing a 
host of
accessoires for all cameras and lenses made after 1957.

He came back again and mentioned he was surprised I could supply all items on 
his list 
from stock. 
Thank you for the compliment I do my best to keep those who enjoy Hasselblad 
cameras 
happy with a good supply of parts for this unique system.
 

Richard.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BOB KISS 
  To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 2:57 PM
  Subject: [HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square


  DEAR UNK,

              I hope you are hoping for the former (real use) below and not the 
latter (a whim).

                          CHEERS!

                                      BOB

   


------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  From: hasselblad-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:hasselblad-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stein
  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:05 AM
  To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [HUG ] The Swedish Square

   

  Dear Friends,

   

                   Another week in retailing has passed and I am pleased to 
report the sale of a Hasselblad 500C/M to a budding photography student. 
Whether she can make any real use of it or whether it is a whim is food for 
speculation, but I am hoping for the latter. It is a lay-by purchase so if 
there is effort and pain in the acquisitio this may spill forward into effort 
and achievement in the use of the camera.

   

                  I must say I was surprised at the resale price considering 
the buy-in price for second hand but then I am one of the overheads these days 
and I suppose I must welcome any profit that can eventually be channelled to 
wages. And at least we know that the apparatus is working well and is as 
expected. I am slowly working my way through equipment cabinets with the soul 
of an ancient prophet - trying the souls of the cameras to see if they are 
pure. The failed pieces are going to the workshop as I find them. I refuse to 
be stuck with a dud while trying to sell it to a customer. I don't mind looking 
like a fool but I want to be wearing the special costume for that....

   

                  The retail trade is a constant surprise - as constant a 
surprise as professional health practice was, but in different ways. People can 
be alternately so mean and so generous - and so blind to the way they appear 
when presenting as a customer. I know that people want to pay less, or least 
for items, and I know the management wants a full,fat recommended retail price 
for the transaction....but really - do people think they are going to do 
business with " Whu chur bess price onna FlapoflexXD450, I can get it from 
Singapore and  where do you put the batteries?"  Where indeed....

   

                  Funny on the phone, but funnier when presented over a counter 
dressed in thongs and a holey tee-shirt. The mullet hairdo is also a treat. If 
you can accompany it with a wife snarling that it is all a rip-off it becomes 
existential theater. Theater in the pear-shape, for the most part....

   

                  And that is my quota of ....used up for the week. I am happy 
to announce the personal purchase of an 80mm Planar F and a 150mm Sonnar F from 
a fine man in Maine so there is going to be peace and elegance and fine 
focussing in weeks to come.

   

                   Uncle Dick



  __________ NOD32 2911 (20080229) Information __________

  This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
  http://www.eset.com

Other related posts: