Pay $400 To A Big Store Or Pay Us $130
Posted on March 23, 2012 - Filed Under Amused, Business, computer repair, computers, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment
Sure you can buy a laptop or a desk top from Staples or Walmart for way less than us – because they buy in bulk and we can’t do that as we are only small business here. Don’t have so much cash to compete and not trying to but when it comes to repairing or [...]
Read More..>>A $10K Error In Judgement
Posted on February 23, 2012 - Filed Under Amused, Finances, Honesty, This Country, This Town | 1 Comment
So he said it was an error in judgement – but where I come from – it’s called Criminal Breach of Trust. Former MLA Richard Hulbert is said to be pleading guilty after 2 years – since he resigned after it came to light that the $8000 generator that was in his backyard – wasn’t [...]
Read More..>>Frank Anderson Wants His $170K pension
Posted on February 4, 2012 - Filed Under Amused, Finances, Honesty, Ranting, Spam/Scam, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment
picture from Shelburne County Today
A year and a half ago – Shelburne County Today had asked Frank Anderson about the money that went missing? And for the person who was the head of SWSDA and left it with a debt of $2.3 million and many of this money belongs to locally owned company for work [...]
I Swear It’s A Trick Question!
Posted on January 8, 2012 - Filed Under Amused, Business, computer repair, computers, Honesty, programming, This Town | Leave a Comment
Many a times we have customers coming into our store with their computers for repairs and the first thing they would tell asked us would be – can you put Windows 7 back for me once you are done repairing it – and/or after you’ve gotten the virus out of my computer. You all know [...]
Read More..>>But It Must Have Been 5 Yrs Now
Posted on October 16, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, Ranting, This Town | 1 Comment
A customer came in and wanted to rent a movie – we brought up his account and told him he had late charges of X amount of $. His reply was – it must have been 5 yrs now he exclaimed ! EXACTLY!! it must have been 5 yrs and he couldn’t afford to [...]
Read More..>>Good Restaurants
Posted on September 1, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Entertainment, Food, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment
The spouse loved to eat – if you don’t believe me – check with Gary – he would tell you and also because she writes for a food blog – and is a featured publisher for Food Buzz – hence the food thing. So when tourists ask me what good restaurants we have in Yarmouth, [...]
Read More..>>Interesting Week For GameStop
Posted on August 27, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Honesty | Leave a Comment
So I read that GameStop had a very interesting week last week – with outraged customers who were expecting their free OnLive DXHR coupon but didn’t find any from GameStop. Which lead to some very interesting discovery and of course lots of tech blogs blogging about it. So Gamestop had its own story – and [...]
Read More..>>Bike Pirates
Posted on July 8, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment
Shame on the person who stole our customer – Melanie’s bike a few days ago! No need for that! Melanie was in the store to get something done for her kid – it was less than 10 minutes and someone stole her bike! WTF ! RIGHTTT!!! Poor Melanie had a long way to walk home [...]
Read More..>>You Can Only Rip Us Off Once !
Posted on July 5, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, Ranting, thieves, This Town | Leave a Comment
I’ve often asked myself – why people do that? if you cannot be trusted to return a movie or a game you’ve rented – what good are you? People who goes on our wall of shame for ripping us off - don’t go onto the list without a long lists of things we try to [...]
Read More..>>At The Back Of Our Store
Posted on June 29, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Electronics, Health, Honesty, Life, Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment
Many smokers from around our store loved to stand around the back of our store – because we have a sort of cover up – from rain and sun – especially the wind from the sea. So they stand at the back of our store – and smoke their lungs out. Normally, we don’t mind [...]
Read More..>>Sorry, It’s Not Yours
Posted on May 11, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, Entertainment, gadgets, Honesty, sellers, thieves, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment
We buy and sell used electronics and gadgets – and most likely – we will have a 32gb ipod touch or a Sony turntable at one point at our store – because things comes and goes pretty quickly here – well some. But it is also most likely not yours either – why? in [...]
Read More..>>Local MLA Visits Local Business
Posted on January 31, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment
Yesterday evening just before we closed for supper we had a surprise visit from our local MLA, Zach Churchill. Everyone in this town knows Zach right? Well, if you don’t know who he is you better get your act together because Mr. Churchill will be going down in history in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Not only [...]
Read More..>>Customers Turned Friends
Posted on January 18, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Health, Honesty, Life, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
11 yrs in business – I’ll have to say that we’ve made some good friends – yes! customers who turned into friends and those who become friends are 101% the “good” people. What is the “good” people? people who are always there for us – chats with us and share their life with us. These [...]
Read More..>>Good Food & Good Service
Posted on January 15, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Food, Honesty, kids, This Town | Leave a Comment
The wife is quite fussy with her food – she writes a food blog and gets paid for writing that blog – and like she said – she never waste her calories on bad food. The kid is even worst – she don’t eat anything – unless it is really good – but french fries [...]
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