I bought a bike the other day. I'm really excited about it, I used to be really into mountain biking but my bikes were just from Target or Walmart or whatever, and the last time I rode beyond just going back and forth from school was over a decade ago.
My new bike is the first road bike I've ever owned, and I spent a few hours riding different bikes around the block and talking about the differences between different models with the owner (it's a small local shop). He was really helpful and I love the bike, it's way more comfortable than any I've ever ridden and I wasn't expecting how different a road bike feels from a mountain bike, I was shocked at how light it is and how fast I can go on it.
Everything was going great, I was super excited to ride it home (shop is only about a mile from my apartment so I walked over) but when I went to check out the owner says "Hey, I'd love to sell you the bike today, but just so you know we're having a huge store-wide sale next week and it will be $70 off. If you want it now I can sell it to you, but if you don't mind waiting you can just pay a deposit and pick it up next Friday with the discount."
I tried to reason with him for a few minutes that this didn't make any sense. If the bike was just going to sit in his shop with a "Sold" sign on it for a week, why not just sell it to me now with the discount? He said he couldn't do it. Usually I would have pressed it more since it makes no sense to me, but he was super chill otherwise and had just spent a ton of time helping me out so I just went with it.
Two days later it's still bugging me though. It just seems so arbitrary. If it was a big box store I could totally understand and I'd appreciate the heads-up. But this is the owner of small shop that employs like three other people. He has the power to do whatever he wants. Like I said in the thread title, he just seems really unreasonable to me, I can't understand why he's so adamant about the sale date and why he wants this bike I've half paid off taking up space in his shop.
My new bike is the first road bike I've ever owned, and I spent a few hours riding different bikes around the block and talking about the differences between different models with the owner (it's a small local shop). He was really helpful and I love the bike, it's way more comfortable than any I've ever ridden and I wasn't expecting how different a road bike feels from a mountain bike, I was shocked at how light it is and how fast I can go on it.
Everything was going great, I was super excited to ride it home (shop is only about a mile from my apartment so I walked over) but when I went to check out the owner says "Hey, I'd love to sell you the bike today, but just so you know we're having a huge store-wide sale next week and it will be $70 off. If you want it now I can sell it to you, but if you don't mind waiting you can just pay a deposit and pick it up next Friday with the discount."
I tried to reason with him for a few minutes that this didn't make any sense. If the bike was just going to sit in his shop with a "Sold" sign on it for a week, why not just sell it to me now with the discount? He said he couldn't do it. Usually I would have pressed it more since it makes no sense to me, but he was super chill otherwise and had just spent a ton of time helping me out so I just went with it.
Two days later it's still bugging me though. It just seems so arbitrary. If it was a big box store I could totally understand and I'd appreciate the heads-up. But this is the owner of small shop that employs like three other people. He has the power to do whatever he wants. Like I said in the thread title, he just seems really unreasonable to me, I can't understand why he's so adamant about the sale date and why he wants this bike I've half paid off taking up space in his shop.
