That's not how you manage a store!

A store manager 'tried' to mix business and pleasure.

We were at the airport mall to buy a necklace for a birthday. First we checked out some headphones. We tried out the most expensive one. We were never going to buy this one because it cost 200.

An employee asked if we wanted to buy it, we said we didn't. She came with the usual arguments: best quality, famous designer, good fit.

The manager overheard us and he said we could have it at a lower price since they didn't sell those headphones that much. We said we were just looking and we would probably never buy those headphones.

He lowered the price again, this time because they didn't sell much in general. We said we liked the headphones, but we were looking for a birthday present so we wanted to buy something else.

Then he lowered the price again to 'synchronize the price/quality ratio with the other items in store'. We said it is a nice present, but we would probably buy a necklace instead.

Again, he lowered the price because they broke their selling record the day before, so they could afford it.

Valery Before he said they didn't sell much in general, so that's an easy record to break.

We kept trying to tell him we didn't want the headphones, but he really liked us and eventually ended up at 40. So we bought the headphones!

He escorted us to the exit and we could feel him looking at us while we were walking away.

Brooke Who knew meeting a sexist could turn out well for us?