Bad / Problem Customer Stories

[vwnate1]

O.K., please share your stories of both P.I.A. Customers who came into your business or others whom you saw while out and about making life miserable for shop keepers and business men .

This should be a fun thread in these times of gloom and uncertainty .

[BWhitmore]

As a former high school auto shop teacher, very often other teachers would come into the shop and ask to have a repair done on their car. Most were great, but one afternoon on a very hot day, the English teacher came in at the end of school, after students were dismissed, and asked to have the belts on her car checked. Even though it was time for me to leave, I said OK and opened the hood while she sat in the car. With sweat pouring off of me, after about 3 minutes of checking the belts, the teacher rolled down the car window and asked if she could start the engine to turn on the AC. I often wondered if she would stay after school in the hot summer to help one of my students with help to learn to read better.

[barry12345]

Originally Posted by BWhitmore

As a former high school auto shop teacher, very often other teachers would come into the shop and ask to have a repair done on their car. Most were great, but one afternoon on a very hot day, the English teacher came in at the end of school, after students were dismissed, and asked to have the belts on her car checked. Even though it was time for me to leave, I said OK and opened the hood while she sat in the car. With sweat pouring off of me, after about 3 minutes of checking the belts, the teacher rolled down the car window and asked if she could start the engine to turn on the AC. I often wondered if she would stay after school in the hot summer to help one of my students with help to learn to read better.

Fortunately she did not just arbitrarily start the engine with your hands in that area. There are people out there that would so it. There are lots of things to be aware of as a business owner.

I do not call them scams but unreasonable expectations of owners of vehicles under unusual circumstances.

[t walgamuth]

In my work as an Architect as I got more successful at landing bigger jobs I found the clients to be more and more difficult. Two were such big pains in the posterior that after the work was complete I allowed them to not pay my last bill on the condition that all responsibility on my part was forgone in return.

It cost me over a thousand each but the silence was well worth it.

[Air&Road]

I have fired a few customers in my time too Tom. I get it.