One of the businesses my woman has is, a company where she buys high quality items (clothing, jewelry, etc) online, and then resells them at a profit.
One of the businesses my woman has is, a company where she buys high quality items (clothing, jewelry, etc) online, and then resells them at a profit.
And, thus, she uses UPS a lot.
And, not long ago, I took her to the local UPS drop off.
It’s in a store that primarily sells to hunters, fisherman, hikers, outdoors enthusiasts, gun owners, yada yada yada. And, since I live in Bigfoot country in the Pacific Northwest, stores like that tend to sell books about Bigfoot. In this store’s case, they had probably a dozen titles on the rack next to the UPS counter. And, I found myself thumbing through one of the titles, wanting to buy it, since the Hairy One makes an appearance in a novel I wrote and am editing, and it may have given me some good twists or ideas for it.
Anyway, short story long:
As I was ready to get it, my woman asked me something about Bigfoot.
And then the UPS schlub interrupts our conversation:
“There’s no Bigfoot, that’s just a myth, he’s not real.”
After which I proceeded to put the book down I was going to buy and left.[[image:20190801_172619.jpg|right|small]]
Why?
Two reasons:
1. Nobody likes a skeptic, being the insufferable bores they are, much less likes giving them money
2. He engaged in “anti-selling”
It’s the height of stupidity to tell people the product/service you’re selling doesn’t work, you don’t believe in it, etc. I’m not saying the little skeptic had to lie. All he had to do was mind his own business or else say something like, “you know, can’t say I’m convinced, but a lot of other people are, and they say that book in your hand has a lot of new proof…”
Anyway, as a matter of principle I don’t buy from anti-salesmen.
And, neither do most others.
Do with this info what ye will…
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Ben Settle
