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High_Marshal_Helbrecht wrote:What got me to leave the "FLGS" I used to visit in Cardiff was a combination of two things, My partner got groped and some little arse tried to push me through a glass display cabinet.

That sounds like Cardiff.

Did you end up in Chip Alley? Most Cardiff stories do...

baritowned wrote:
Still don't believe me?

Nope.

I think there is a lot of mountains being made of molehills and people bitching on the intertubes instead of handling the situation in store.

But I am just another dweller of the intertubes, so what do I know.

Adam LongWalker wrote:

Grimtuff wrote:

liquidjoshi wrote:Sorry, but I have to disagree about GW staff. I've only ever met good staff in GWs, and they've always been friendly and helpful. GW doesn't get a lot of things right, but their staff are generally great.

Yes, generally. I've met some right stinkers in my time, many of them letting the "Lord of all the little Timmys" and the cult of personality that comes with it go to their heads.

Perhaps in your region you might get decent GW staff, but I can say the opposite as well. The pressure sales have really increased over past 6 years.

There was a time when the GW staff in my region were more than just people over the counter trying to sell me things. They knew how much I was going to spend and that time it was 200+ per month. I helped with the terrain creation and even helped out in with beginners in showing them how to use a air brush. I brought my own in for the staff to use plus a full tool box of tools for display. They were good times as they were friends than GW employees.

Indeed, but this is yet another example of GS US being different to elsewhere.

I can honestly say I have never had the hard sell treatment in the UK... occasionally I've had the upsell.. glue. paint, WD, but I just say 'no thanks' and that is the end of the matter.... The techniques they employ are more designed to stop shoplifting - meeting and greeting, asking what army they play etc... I'm sure the management think these techniques work differently but all they really achieve is to make the customer know they are being watched, and that you suspect they are a thief.

And from what I can see there are people who go to GW stores that have that friendly relationship with the staff that you describe. I used to go in a particular shop, the manager and I just used to chat about the ECW.


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baritowned wrote:

ProtoClone wrote:

Relapse wrote:

Zathras wrote:

baritowned wrote:Yes, I've been going there for almost a year, and he has always been somewhat rude to everyone (even at one point putting a full-size RC car on the table and running over people's stuff, interrupting four games in the process), but this was completely unprovoked.

Wow, if someone did that to my stuff, I would be testing the durability of the material the R/C car is made from using the bottom of my shoe and then test the balistic characteristics of what was left from the front door of the store to out into the street or parking lot.

The guy's story sounded like a load of BS in the first place, but that just put what he was writing an over the top obvious line of gak.

Got to agree.

Regardless of the quality of the OP, it is a good topic of conversation.

I wasn't making any of this up. I don't feel the need to lie on the internet to make myself sound cool or to make a story sound better. I highly doubt you will, but you can ask anyone who games there about how much of an annoyance this employee is.

When he first started LARPing, he would get extremely mad if people didn't want to go with him, to the point of telling them to leave, and insulting them.

On the rare ocurrance of him playing a 40k game, if he gets two turns in and is "losing", he will grab all of his minis off the table, throw a fit, and leave the store.

One night, he brought in a dozen D&D players and took up most of our tables the entire night (which Karmakanik, one of the guys that goes there wrote about here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/415996.page), and even tried to get us to leave because they "needed the tables"

Still don't believe me?

Your problem is that you are trying to convince people who don't care.

You probably are telling the truth, but you are confusing men and women. If this forum were mainly women you would get sympathy, people would understand because they had been in a similar situation, etc. But as this is a forum of mainly men, so you are on a hiding to nothing.

Give it a couple of years and you start getting into women and beer. All the problems with this guy will fall into perspective. Besides, the chances are he will commit suicide in time due to world not realizing his genius, and then you don't need to worry about him ever again.

The real question:

Did you contact thier home office yet, and report this as to your "fine family hobby gaming experience"?

http://www.hobbytown.com/About/ContactUs/

http://www.hobbytown.com/About/Company/


Other then that, now your just poo-pooing about a TFG.

baritowned wrote:

ProtoClone wrote:

Relapse wrote:

Zathras wrote:

baritowned wrote:Yes, I've been going there for almost a year, and he has always been somewhat rude to everyone (even at one point putting a full-size RC car on the table and running over people's stuff, interrupting four games in the process), but this was completely unprovoked.

Wow, if someone did that to my stuff, I would be testing the durability of the material the R/C car is made from using the bottom of my shoe and then test the balistic characteristics of what was left from the front door of the store to out into the street or parking lot.

The guy's story sounded like a load of BS in the first place, but that just put what he was writing an over the top obvious line of gak.

Got to agree.

Regardless of the quality of the OP, it is a good topic of conversation.

I wasn't making any of this up. I don't feel the need to lie on the internet to make myself sound cool or to make a story sound better. I highly doubt you will, but you can ask anyone who games there about how much of an annoyance this employee is.

When he first started LARPing, he would get extremely mad if people didn't want to go with him, to the point of telling them to leave, and insulting them.

On the rare ocurrance of him playing a 40k game, if he gets two turns in and is "losing", he will grab all of his minis off the table, throw a fit, and leave the store.

One night, he brought in a dozen D&D players and took up most of our tables the entire night (which Karmakanik, one of the guys that goes there wrote about here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/415996.page), and even tried to get us to leave because they "needed the tables"

Still don't believe me?

Your story keeps getting better and better.

The fact that no one is actually working at my LGS has made me want to leave. But it's the only place in town where I can make small purchases (besides the GW store where I don't want to go). So I keep going there. I do have to wait 15 minutes to buy a brush because the staff is busy playing Magic, but I prefer that over GW.

And I can't get angry with them, because they're these shy geeky guys. And I mean, what's more adorable than that?

One time, at band camp.....

Grot 6 wrote:One time, at band camp.....

You're welcome