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 [...]
Read More..>>Happy Customer With Grave Titan
Posted on July 16, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Entertainment, gaming, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment
This lil’ customer of ours was in the first thing when we opened for business to get his box of Fat Pack – and he was a very happy customer when he walked out. Sawyer is a customer of ours for a long time now – you see we know his grandmother. Now if every [...]
Read More..>>Free Lights from the Government?!
Posted on May 30, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Honesty | Leave a Comment
It was about a year ago I think, I got a call from someone asking whether I’d like to take part in some green program involving the power company, pretty sure it was government funded, but basically they were offering to replace all the standard light bulbs in the store with newer style compact florescent [...]
Read More..>>Sign of Improving Times?
Posted on May 25, 2010 - Filed Under Finances, Honesty | Leave a Comment
It must be a sign of an improving economy. Lately, on a weekly basis, there’s credit card applications showing up in the mail again. Offers for free credit reports. Offers to increase the limit on existing credit cards. But no! I don’t want any more cards, they’re evil! They [...]
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