aww sorry about ur experience!! but love the ring!! good thing those sa didn't make you not want to buy it!!!
Tiffany's =(
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It's really surprising to me to hear of all these bad experiences at Tiffany's. I have bought quite a few items there, by myself, with my parents, with my boyfriend. Sure, some SAs have been more friendly or chatty than others, but I have never had an SA be rude to me. I have had to flag someone down a couple of times, but that doesn't bother me, as long as they actually come over when I indicate that I need help. Now, in other stores I have had SAs be rude or ignore me, but not at T&Co.
Obviously you have never worked on Commission. If I saw you dressed like that in a higher end store like that, I would have to ignore you as well. Your commission feeds your kids and pays the bills. Your not a person, your a dollar sign. and dressed like that you are a lower dollar sign. Sorry, but it's true. Not just Tiffany's, but just in general.
I have to say, I think that is a foolish attitude for a sale's associate to have. How one dresses often has very little to do with how much money they make or how much money they are willing to spend. Threads like this that are plentiful around this forum should be proof enough of that. If a SA is really interested in making a commission they should/will treat all of their customers/potential customers well.
I've never had bad service at a Tiffany store, but this reminded me of an incident I'd forgotten about. Years ago I went through a year or two of loving silver/turquoise/indian type jewelry. I went in to this little indian jewelry boutique and looked through the jewelry. I asked the SA if they had any more bracelets, and he said "Well, we have this one over here, but you can't afford it." It was a tacky, overdone bracelet for something like $800. Even though I got a kick out of the comment, I never shopped there again.
There are a lot of these bad SA threads around. They all need to learn manners. After all...if the owners of these stores were to find out they would lose their jobs. I am a Mystery Shopper and this is the exact thing we look for. All it takes is for one of us to make a bad report on them...bam...they are FIRED.
What ever happened to treating people as equals??
I'm so happy for people like you! When I would have a store, I would want my SA's to be friendly and helpfull to everyone! A snobby SA deserves to be fired , just my honest opinion.
you can never ever judge a person or his/her wealth on appearance, I'm in sales as well (finance) and you would be surprised how many extremely wealthy people dress down ... just saying
Sorry but I have to call BS on this. I know a lot of salespeople THINK they can gauge who will spend money based on appearances, but they are not nearly as accurate as they think they are. I used to work in retail (high-end furniture/homewares), and often as not the people who came in dressed to the nines would walk around, ask tons of questions.... and save the info to pass to their interior decorator. Then once I had a customer wearing shorts, a polo and teva's who no one wanted to help. I sold $3,000 of merchandise to her in about 30 mins. That taught me- you never can judge a book by its cover when you work in retail! Anyone who thinks they can judge and treats customers accordingly is giving BAD service.
WOW. That's just. WOW...
What a horrible attitude to have.
You have got to be the biggest idiot I have seen posting on these boards.
Troll, anyone???:dftt:
Wow, that would be a huge mistake. I was talking to a SA in a very large jewelry store, she told me about the time she blew off a customer because of the way she was dressed. Apparently, she had been gardening, shears in the pocket, dirt under the fingernails, hole in the hat, the whole works. She passed her off to her co-worker, who sold her a $40,000 ruby necklace. The SA told me she'd never make that mistake again.
ok . ok . ok . So if you have kids at home that need food. And bills to pay. And there are 6 Sales Associates in the store, and 15 people or different small groups of people, your not in any way going to judge people based on how much you might be able to make? You guys got to be kidding me. I know in forums your not really suppose to say thing against the norm, and I do like everyone on this forum, but reality is reality. Call me whatever you feel like. There are names for Sale Associates for a good reason...Like Sales dogs and Sales Sharks. I would love to work with Sales Associates like you guys that have your thinking...At the end of the day you'd feel pretty good about yourselves, but I would have all the money. Seriously. I know there are a few exceptions to every rule, but really think about this one people.
Then be glad you don't work on commission because you'd be in the poorhouse
My best friend is VERY well off and buys a ton of toys (cars, high end watches, etc) and he dresses like crap when he doesn't have to be in a dress shirt. He does this on purpose sometimes because he used to be poor and doesn't want a SA who judges him based on his clothing/perceived status. A lot of people dress very casually because it's more comfortable despite how wealthy they are. Plus, these SAs were jsut standing around and chatting- not attending to a "richer" looking client. And you never know how someone's status might change in the future . . . a graduate student might be very poor, but he could get a great job the next year.