Some real-life examples of flubbed opportunities, unclear wording, and just plain silly, silly, silly shop wording on the Internet.
Seriously? Does this make sense?
“We are not offering any BOR this month because January is too slow.” Um, excuse me, but because you’re not selling much this month, you will handicap your seasonal changeover? Are you trying to make February slow too?
When you buy, you should NOT be using “today’s dollars”, that is, your immediate inflow, but rather, be watching your open-to-buy for a longer stretch of time. Perhaps this shop owner would profit by reading The BIG Book of Buying Outright
Seriously? Can you translate the following into something easily scanned?
Ran across this message on a consignment shop web site: “Hours of Operation: Sun: 12 p.m. – 5:00 a.m., Mon: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Tue: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Wed: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thu: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Fri: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Sat: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.”
Couldn’t they just have said “Open 9 to 9 Monday-Saturday, and Noon to 5 every Sunday“? (I’m assuming they actually, upon reflection, know better than to say 12p.m. [there is no such time; p.m. means “after 12” so what’s 12 after 12?] I’m also assuming they didn’t really mean they were open on Sundays until 5 a.m., AKA 5 in the morning….)
Seriously? Well kiss MY grits.
Yes, this message was in all caps. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SELECT WHAT EVER LABELS/BRANDS & STYLES WE FEEL REFLECT OUR TARGET MARKET. WE DO NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT ALL OF YOUR ITEMS. WE DO NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING PARTICULAR ITEMS.
And guess what? I DON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT ATTITUDE.
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Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 