Talked into buying?

[Lance Bunyon]

None of this is very cohesive

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

lol whut? Is it faster to Philadelphia, or by bus?

In one part of our world a women sets a chicken in the oven, meanwhile on the opposite side of the world an old man is cursing at the weather channel. Is that a coincidence?. Believe it or not!.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

Are they selling Basses door-to-door now?

Its always someone, Jehova's, bill collection agency,vacuum salesmen, armed robber, hookers and now bass salesmen damnit!.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

He is... this may be one of those posts where the title is 'Delete', or 'Never Mind' and we all know what comes next...

... like I said, he's got a sense of humor.

This thread title was the best thing to happen to me today, he's killin' me with this stuff.....I cant wait for his next post!.

 

[gln1955]

In one part of our world a women sets a chicken in the oven, meanwhile on the opposite side of the world an old man is cursing at the weather channel. Is that a coincidence?. Believe it or not!.

The good old chicken effect. The non-mathematician's explanation of chaos theory.

 

[pcake]

If you don't have time to clearly state your question, I don't have time to answer it.

and yet, you sort of did...

My best interpretation- If you don't talk someone into not buying your bass, your not going to not sell it, but not sell to the person you are not selling it to.

respectfully disagree. when i sell a bass, i state the facts, put up the pics, point out any issues and let the potential buyer decide if it's for them. i usually deliberately understate the condition, too, to avoid conversations about what is "like mint" or hear that someone doesn't consider my bass excellent condition - i never list one as above good. when i was showing a camera a guy was on the fence about, i thanked him for coming very sincerely, told him i was sorry i wasted his time and rose to leave. he immediately handed over the money. people - go figure!

 

[two fingers]

And the moral of that story, kids, is “Keep your wife and daughters the hell away from two fingers!”

I actually didn’t intend to make a pun, but suddenly there it was, and it was too late to change course...

Ha! I didn't hurt them! I just sold them a piano!

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

The good old chicken effect. The non-mathematician's explanation of chaos theory.

Extremely popular train of thought process utilized in the dark underworld belonging to the secretive collectors of fine and rare knitting patterns.

 

[BurnOut]

Is this like when the kid working the counter at GC tells you, you should get the strings his bass player uses, after you just told the kid exactly the kind you wanted?

 

[the_home]

yeah, so... is your bass still available?

Weight?

 

[Madhouse27]

Think how cool some of you regular guys would look playing one of my pre-owned left-handed basses. Your days of disappearing into the backdrop will soon be coming to an end.

 

[SactoBass]

Its always someone, Jehova's, bill collection agency,vacuum salesmen, armed robber, hookers and now bass salesmen damnit!.

 

[SparkyLB]

If can’t not ethical, then how come won’t not if he can’t then shouldn’t he? I mean, if you can’t not unable to confused if won’t not can’t, then how? I say don’t want for fear of not, then say yes to not sell on your fault. Yes?

I don't like correcting people, but it seems you might have meant "responsibility" instead of fault. If I'm mistaken, you have my sincerest computer screen.

 

[SparkyLB]

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Get me a ham on rye from the deli, NO MUSTARD, and pick up my dry-cleaning, NO STARCH!

 

[SparkyLB]

God, I love this place.

 

[SactoBass]

If can’t not ethical, then how come won’t not if he can’t then shouldn’t he? I mean, if you can’t not unable to confused if won’t not can’t, then how? I say don’t want for fear of not, then say yes to not sell on your fault. Yes?

Definitely!

 

[whero]

I can’t imagine being talked into buying a bass I didn’t want in the first place. If you’re at risk of this, stay away from music stores.

I can't remember the last time I went into a music store and saw a bass I didn't want in the first place.

I know nothing of ethics. My family is from Suthex.

Surely that's "Thuthex"?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Science says there is an answer to this. Chickens evolved from earlier forms of creature but the first thing that was a chicken-as-we-know-it hatched out of an egg. The egg came first.

Back on point: I used to work in a call center where customer service reps had to try to sell people products or services they might actually need, but probably didn't want (like insurance). We taught the reps to think about features and benefits. A feature is something the product has, the benefit is what that feature will do for the customer. You don't sell a product on features, you sell it on benefits. Pointing out the benefits helps the customer want what they need.

In later life I realised this is not always correct, however. Sometimes, when the customer is a gear nerd, they want the features: weight, active/passive, pickup style, bridge type, neck profile, neck-thru or bolt-on, nut width... you don't have to tell the gearhead why a particular feature is a benefit, because what they're looking for is particular features.

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

Talkbass is like a ladder one kicks away once it has got one to the next level. . .

 

[InhumanResource]

I had a job once selling home smoke and fire detectors. There was a flipboard presentation that had pictures of kids badly disfigured by fire. This was the point in the schpiel that were suppose to tell the mark "If you love your family.....". I quit after my 2nd appointment. Though I did make 1 sale.
..... I still feel dirty from that all these years later.

Holy smokes. How many smoke detectors would a guy have to sell to come even close to making a living?

 

[InhumanResource]

Sounds like a Groucho Marx joke opening. What's the punchline?

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