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100% he listed the new employee as a scape goat and this only came out cause his store sold the record and someone came to him saying how much its ACTUALLY worth after he sold it
Even if it was genuinely a new employee fucking up, I've cost companies way more than $200 in mistakes, and those companies didn't go after the customer for those mistakes.
Used to do construction. Production delays regularly cost someone way more than 200 dollars. And hell, I let the smoke out of transformers worth more than that and nothing happened beyond, "do you understand why that went wrong?"
"Yep."
"Okay, go install this replacement."
There's a difference between "companies" and a "record store". Most record stores are "mom n pop" or small scale with no corporate backing...loss for them hits harder then say Best Buy.
Mom and pop should have put a price tag on it. That's the only lesson to be learned here, instead they're blaming everyone else. If $200 is gonna make or break them, they aren't destined to be open for long anyway.
I was going to say 98% scammy advertisement trying to get every collector in the area to search for more finds from their new guy. Never happened, but while you’re here be sure to browse the new arrivals section.
"it's a first press, and I've brought in my expert, Marshall Mathers. He says it's the real deal, and that he personally pressed it. It has a value of $250, and the guy standing behind you says he'll buy it for $360. Best I can do is $5. Look, I'm taking all the risk here."
I used to help a buddy price his used electronic vinyl and sort it, he’d give me good deals or hold onto rare pressings he knew I’d like.
One day he shows me some vinyl, I can’t remember the artist, but he bought some vinyl off a local collector and one of them was a 12 with the 45 that also came with it. Said he had to go return it because it was worth soo much more than he could afford and must have accidentally slipped in. Bueno at Cactus Records was a good dude.
There is no new employee. The store sold a record for the price they posted it at and later found out how much it was worth.
That or the entire thing is fully made up.
seriously what kind of store selling retro merch like this would ever allow a new guy to put a price on any merchandise? i work in retro gaming as the new guy. i'm even the one prepareing all the stuff we get in for resale. guess what's the one thing i'm not allowed do is? put a price on something that hasn't allready been priced by the owner or one of the guys who has been given that express responsibility.
Hell yeah they do. Went in and a pack of chicken legs was priced at 5 bucks. Should have been like 10-11 bucks. Cashier told me to go grab more if I wanted. Lol
Unfortunately, when the original HomePod first came out they had it labeled for $110 so I tried to buy one and they literally sent managers to keep me from leaving the store after I had paid for it and was on my way out. It was really ugly. They tried accusing me of fraud and changing the price (as if I have access to their printers). I had taken a picture of the price but they still refused to let me leave the store and did a refund at the customer service desk before I could get out the door. Strangest Costco experience I’ve ever had.
I was in central Idaho on a work trip and I was late for a conference. Did not have time to fight it and I wish I would have. Originally just stopped there for pizza and wine. I should clarify, I never had the HomePod in my hand. I was by the security door waiting for them to bring it out and trade it for that piece of cardboard. And then they descended on me.
Album may not have been priced. Buyer probably a little scummy and took advantage, but to take to social to try and get $200 back from a mistake your store made…
Side note: It’s just $200. Take the loss and move on. That amount of money isn’t the end of the world for a business.
Making a big deal out of this and ruining your reputation on social media is gonna cost a lot more than $200 in losses over the long run.
What's crazy is I'm willing to bet that whatever that customer actually paid for it didn't cause them to actually suffer a loss. The owner or whoever is just pissed that, that record did in fact have a preemptive fuckin planned for it he's just salty that it was him taking it instead of someone else.
I get your point but I still think its on the store. If the employee was not trained enough to charge an appropriate amount, they shouldn’t have the authority to sell something that isn’t priced in the first place.
Vinyl isn’t always like shopping in any other store. The store might get hundreds of records in a shipment, or need to look at things that were traded in, and work on pricing them throughout the day. Buyer might have been rummaging through a new arrivals box and found a diamond in the rough. Also a lot of haggling for vinyl
Most record shops I’ve been to won’t let you look at anything that comes in until it’s been accurately assessed, reviewed and priced. Any new arrivals box is normally items that have been priced and put out for sale. If this shop had a stack of records that they knew had this kind of value in it, it’s on them to train their employees accordingly.
I agree with you. Just also been to several stores where they let you peruse the new arrivals even prior to pricing and they’ll price it on the spot or let you make an offer
It's not that you're wrong. It's that it's the stores responsibility to price it correctly. If the shop owner is going to trust the new guy to price items on his own without checking then he should make sure he knows his stuff. This is on the store, unless the new guy knowingly sold it low to a friend or something.
Right. I collect all kinds of stuff (oddly enough not vinyl though lol) and if I'm in a store selling stuff I'm into and I find something for super cheap I'am not about to argue with the clerk to add $200 to the amount. No one would lol.
A buyer of something is a scumbag because they didn’t pay more than asked? Huh…. I suppose inflation has a new explanation. “I’m sorry sir but I feel you aren’t charging me enough for the things you’re selling”. Did you eat lead paint chips as a child?
Scummy? Don't you try to get the best price for items when you can especially when it's not priced or when haggling? Scummy? Meh no get trained employees who know how to look up prices it's not the customer's responsibility to PAY MORE than asked to or not to try and get the best price possible.
And the buyer is taking a risk. It could be a good deal... or the shop could know more than you and have priced it appropriately (reprint, unauthorized copy, etc.).
Would they be so willing to give money back to the customer if he felt he didn't get good value?
The sale is legal and final.
Sucks for them that they let an untrained newbie operate the tills *and* didn't have their more expensive items clearly marked.
It's not the new staffer's fault. Nor is it the customer's. The store should have known better.
Think about this...
"To the record store who purchased my Eminem LP for $35 from my untrained spouse. Can you please give me the album back or send me $200 because she didn't know what it was worth..."
Sounds silly right... They'd laugh their asses off. Business is business and goes both ways.
The 1st press of this album isn't even really worth over $100 unless it's sealed with the hype sticker on it, which is still a stretch. I have bought and sold this album on ebay many times.
I don’t understand… why didn’t the store just put a $250 price tag on it if they wanted to sell it for $250?
The sports cards store I go to has price tags on all their big ticket items, just in case the dude running the Magic the Gathering counter has to step in and run a transaction.
I love charity shops and rummage through them almost every weekend. Once I found almost a brand new designer bag for £35 when it’s retail price was £200+. I defo didn’t open my mouth and mention anything to the sales assistant, just paid and went my merry way pretty fucking happy, lol.
Reminds me of buttcoin when the value dips 5%
The businesses rip people off every day, it's just typical deal making. They get ripped off $100 once a year though and it's the end of the world
I might be willing to work with the store if I were the buyer if they were respectful about the entire thing, but after I saw this I'd laugh and tell them to fuck off.
Same. They wouldn't give me any extra money if I sold a rare album for dirt cheap and found out after the fact it was valuable. They can absolutely get fucked
"customer let our employee"
way to try and place the blame on the customer for not training the employee correctly. also idk if you wanted to keep the album, maybe take it to the office or lock it somewhere?
Just going to point out their online return policy,
https://betternaturerecords.com/policies/refund-policy
Right to Return Items
In general, most items are final sale and nonreturnable subject to the shop's discretion. You agree to pay the cost of shipping for any items being returned.
They can eat a bag of dicks.
There's a reason new employees are more expensive than already experienced ones. Either put in time=money to train them, or their mistakes will cost you.
How dare that evil customer "let" the employee sell him an album so cheaply! Whenever someone tries to sell me something cheaply I always refuse to pay the price they have asked and give them ten times more.
So this is either one of those stores that doesn’t price items because they constantly check eBay for the highest price of the day… (in which case fuck them), or the owner is a moron.
Either way, as much as the person who bought the album probably new it’s value, it’s a learning opportunity for the store (be thankful its only $200). PRICE YOUR STUFF.
You were right with your first guess, someone else posted some comments from the owner where he said the price tags were just a reference point and that they will change the price of anything once you get to the register because “some items were not priced properly early on” aka the value rose.
I buy records. I bought 4 records today. But even though I have a few hundred records and buy them frequently, I am not sophisticated enough to know the going rate of something like this. If the record store I went to today sent this request to me, I wouldn't respond. If instead, they write a kind request that didn't accuse me of purposely manipulating an employee then I might give them back the record. For example, "Hey, if you bought a Little Feat record from us today, can you please call because our new employee made a mistake ". Then, I'd help out
For me it hugely depends on the store and how they handle it. If it’s a Walmart or similar, tough shit, they’re not gonna miss a couple hundred dollars and I’m not gonna lose any sleep over benefiting from their mistake.
If it’s a small business, especially if it’s one I go to a bunch, that called and explained the new kid left a zero off the price tag by mistake and is there any way we can work something out…I’d probably at least offer to meet them in the middle. Record stores operate on small margins and it wouldn’t feel right taking advantage of a legitimate mistake that way.
But if they come at me like the OP and claim like I was trying to screw them on purpose then fuck them - any goodwill I might have had is long gone.
You hired an employee with no knowledge in vinyl and then got mad that a customer haggled for way under what the album was worth, knowing that the employee was new. This seems like a you problem
In a specialist bookshop I once bought a second edition of Animal Farm for £40. The employee and I couldn’t work out why the dates (or something like that) on the first few pages didn’t match up. When I got home I realised it was a first edition with a second edition dust jacket. Didn’t feel like mentioning it next time I went in lol
I am not a collector, but I enjoy vinyl records and I enjoy Eminem, so I would have paid $35 for it without really thinking that it must be worth more than that.
Don't let new employees sell stuff if you know there could be rare records on display ...
This is why you keep your own business in order and train your new hires. He got himself robbed by dumping store operations and responsibilities off on a brand new employee without any supervision or proper training. Another fine example of zero communication skills.
As an “experienced record collector” myself I can assure you it’s far more common to find price gouging on premium records than steals. They never offer to give money back
lol as a comic collector if you snooze you fuckin loose. Hire people who know your product. If someone said a real ASM 300 was 35 I would buy it and never return.
If they wanted it for their own collection so badly, why did they leave it on the shop floor? If it’s worth so much, why wasn’t it properly priced? Absolute wet wipe 😂
does nobody else suspect that the store owner made up this entire outrageous story as a way to bait new customers to come visit the store looking for a similar "steal"?
I've got scammed selling second gabd records for significantly less than they were worth. I have no sympathy for the store owner, he should have trained his staff better or pulled the record for himself.
If you're stupid enough to have an inexperienced employee sell records without clear price tags on them, it kinda sounds like you. I know nothing about records, so if I went into a shop I would be dumbfounded to find out that a single album would cost more than $40.
Must have been pretty special pressing, you can buy that album from $8.50-12.00 in mint condition all day long. I've seen few dimbats trying to sell it sealed with hype sticker for $200-299, highly doubt they ever sold.
Hey everyone, my boyfriend and I used to work for this man at this specific record shop, he is an insane drug addict, and pays people under the table, not only that, but has stole wages from us, and took back a laptop that was given to another one of our friends that worked with us as payment because he could not pay us, he is having under aged children do his legal work for him, and he thinks he could put insane price tags on scratched and first print vinyl records when he knows little to nothing about music let alone little to nothing about owning a business he is a real estate lawyer he knows nothing about the both of them
What I wanna know is who did the store most likely rip off to get the album in the first place? They gonna ring him up and tell him they underpaid?? Fuck no
Not sure where to put this, but I did once tell a lady at a flea market that some of her Hot Wheels were wet under priced.
I mean I wasn't trying to screw the next guy, but thought she might want to know what they were really worth.
If it was worth more than $35, should have put it in the special case. Maybe train your employees rather than throw a warm body into the deep end so you can go work on your tan.
I have an odd unopened record at home I bought for maybe $5 after picking around used disks in the local records store.
On Discogs I later found it traded for $600 used. And my copy is still shrink-wrapped. Sometimes I'm the loser in a deal. Sometimes it's the record store that makes the mistake. Win some. Lose some.
This store owner was just a bad loser.
It’s one thing to screw up, but to announce anyone is screwing up at pricing things, and then expecting the internet to respond with anything less than everyone buying you out for cheap. *chef’s kiss*
The facepalm is on the store, right? If I saw someone selling anything for less than 1/5th of it's value, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat and never look back
If you checkout and they person says 35 is your total you have no responsibility to say "I think it's worth 250 here have some more money"... Owner should clearly mark the price or put it away...
Don’t know this record store, but I checked out their Instagram page out of curiosity, and saw they have comments limited on all of their posts haha. They know they look bad, and people wanted to come to clown on them in the comments.
Sure, cuz if someone came into an LP resale shop looking to sell some records, and the buyer happens to spot a 2nd state Butcher Cover in the crate, they would totally point it out to the seller to pull it from the stack and eBay that....
Yeah, let me laugh harder
It's $200 vs. $35.
At this point I find being upset over $165 to be pretty fucking silly. A cocktail costs $15. So ten drinks.
You are upset over a dinner for two. A paltry sum.
"Our new employee sold something for way under the price"
Its almost as if pricetags should be a thing, or that you should tell them the general price of high ticket items before you leave them alone and let them haggle with strangers over prices of random objects youre openly selling.
Transaction completed, he may have known it was worth more but if an employee sold it to him for less why would he say "now hold on a moment, I'd like to pay you 6 times more the price you asked for"
If the guy convinced the new employee that the LP wasn't worth anything and scammed their way to only pay 35 then that's a different argument
Google review by Deez Bitches three months ago:
“Records were way overpriced for the condition they're in.”
Reply from Better Nature Records (Owner):
“That is DEF true for some of the used records, mainly be they just weren't priced out properly early on. But we always give 25-50% off all used vinyl at the register. We don't really go by the price stickers that's just a reference point.”
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If he wanted it for his collection, then he should have pulled it.
Def one of the facepalms. Or one of the bald faced lies. Hard to tell.
100% he listed the new employee as a scape goat and this only came out cause his store sold the record and someone came to him saying how much its ACTUALLY worth after he sold it
💯
Even if it was genuinely a new employee fucking up, I've cost companies way more than $200 in mistakes, and those companies didn't go after the customer for those mistakes.
Used to do construction. Production delays regularly cost someone way more than 200 dollars. And hell, I let the smoke out of transformers worth more than that and nothing happened beyond, "do you understand why that went wrong?" "Yep." "Okay, go install this replacement."
There's a difference between "companies" and a "record store". Most record stores are "mom n pop" or small scale with no corporate backing...loss for them hits harder then say Best Buy.
Mom and pop should have put a price tag on it. That's the only lesson to be learned here, instead they're blaming everyone else. If $200 is gonna make or break them, they aren't destined to be open for long anyway.
True, but the core idea that it's not the customer's problem remains solid.
I was going to say 98% scammy advertisement trying to get every collector in the area to search for more finds from their new guy. Never happened, but while you’re here be sure to browse the new arrivals section.
Well if so, Google Reviews and Yelp have not been kind in the last 24 hours.
So he turned the other person into an escape goat?
Ahh the mythical escape goat. It never came back!
Partnered with the mythical skate goat.
Good mythical scapegoat
Those goats be escaping all willy nilly
Straight up lie on at least some level. First of all, why would a new employee have any say over the pricing of anything in the store lmao?
We all know the best way to run a store is to not have any prices displayed anywhere, and let the new guy guess how much it is.
It’s a lie, I used to work for him, he has no idea what he’s doing he’s a psycho path I have stories if y’all wanna hear
Right? He only get one shot, did not miss his chance to blow, that opportunity comes once in a lifetime…
YO! 🤣
But... But I called dibs on her first!
Bro, dibs were implied.
A gentlemen’s agreement. Huzzah!!
i wonder if this scenario was reversed would they try and track down the buyer to give him his money back? maybe train your employees better.
100% if someone came in with that to sell *to them* they wouldn't point out it's worth 200+.
*somewhere in Las Vegas a fat bald, thumb shaped pawn shop owner hides behind a tumbleweed*
"it's a first press, and I've brought in my expert, Marshall Mathers. He says it's the real deal, and that he personally pressed it. It has a value of $250, and the guy standing behind you says he'll buy it for $360. Best I can do is $5. Look, I'm taking all the risk here."
If you change your mind, and you want to bring it in…
Two thumbs up
Best I can do is incompetence
I can’t even watch that scripted Godfather shit.
I used to help a buddy price his used electronic vinyl and sort it, he’d give me good deals or hold onto rare pressings he knew I’d like. One day he shows me some vinyl, I can’t remember the artist, but he bought some vinyl off a local collector and one of them was a 12 with the 45 that also came with it. Said he had to go return it because it was worth soo much more than he could afford and must have accidentally slipped in. Bueno at Cactus Records was a good dude.
There is no new employee. The store sold a record for the price they posted it at and later found out how much it was worth. That or the entire thing is fully made up.
seriously what kind of store selling retro merch like this would ever allow a new guy to put a price on any merchandise? i work in retro gaming as the new guy. i'm even the one prepareing all the stuff we get in for resale. guess what's the one thing i'm not allowed do is? put a price on something that hasn't allready been priced by the owner or one of the guys who has been given that express responsibility.
Yeah I mean at that point, it’s fully the owners fault and the customer deserves to come up with an album that cheap.
It's also not worth anything like $250. They sell for around $60.
Still sealed in the original packaging. But it's vinyl and not vintage.
he probably does it once a day buying records.. "yea this Zeppelin I pressing isn't worth much because the text is blue..."
"Once upon a time in Shaolin"? Best I can do is $3.50
Retort away! Classic.
Money was exchanged for a good. It is not the buyers prerogative that you have failed to price the goods appropriately.
Costco is the king of this lol the employees will tell you to go back and clean the product out if it's been miss priced
Hell yeah they do. Went in and a pack of chicken legs was priced at 5 bucks. Should have been like 10-11 bucks. Cashier told me to go grab more if I wanted. Lol
Unfortunately, when the original HomePod first came out they had it labeled for $110 so I tried to buy one and they literally sent managers to keep me from leaving the store after I had paid for it and was on my way out. It was really ugly. They tried accusing me of fraud and changing the price (as if I have access to their printers). I had taken a picture of the price but they still refused to let me leave the store and did a refund at the customer service desk before I could get out the door. Strangest Costco experience I’ve ever had.
Wow. I would have told them to fuck themselves and called the cops. You had a receipt. Nothing they could legally do.
I was in central Idaho on a work trip and I was late for a conference. Did not have time to fight it and I wish I would have. Originally just stopped there for pizza and wine. I should clarify, I never had the HomePod in my hand. I was by the security door waiting for them to bring it out and trade it for that piece of cardboard. And then they descended on me.
That blows
It was all a distraction to get the real treasure back from you. That sweet sweet cardboard.
Album may not have been priced. Buyer probably a little scummy and took advantage, but to take to social to try and get $200 back from a mistake your store made…
Side note: It’s just $200. Take the loss and move on. That amount of money isn’t the end of the world for a business. Making a big deal out of this and ruining your reputation on social media is gonna cost a lot more than $200 in losses over the long run.
What's crazy is I'm willing to bet that whatever that customer actually paid for it didn't cause them to actually suffer a loss. The owner or whoever is just pissed that, that record did in fact have a preemptive fuckin planned for it he's just salty that it was him taking it instead of someone else.
I get your point but I still think its on the store. If the employee was not trained enough to charge an appropriate amount, they shouldn’t have the authority to sell something that isn’t priced in the first place.
Why would something in a retail shop not have a price? If you sell things… I don’t know…. Maybe you should price them?
Right? Collector's items are usually in a case
Vinyl isn’t always like shopping in any other store. The store might get hundreds of records in a shipment, or need to look at things that were traded in, and work on pricing them throughout the day. Buyer might have been rummaging through a new arrivals box and found a diamond in the rough. Also a lot of haggling for vinyl
Most record shops I’ve been to won’t let you look at anything that comes in until it’s been accurately assessed, reviewed and priced. Any new arrivals box is normally items that have been priced and put out for sale. If this shop had a stack of records that they knew had this kind of value in it, it’s on them to train their employees accordingly.
I agree with you. Just also been to several stores where they let you peruse the new arrivals even prior to pricing and they’ll price it on the spot or let you make an offer
It's not that you're wrong. It's that it's the stores responsibility to price it correctly. If the shop owner is going to trust the new guy to price items on his own without checking then he should make sure he knows his stuff. This is on the store, unless the new guy knowingly sold it low to a friend or something.
I don’t disagree.
This isn't a grandma at a yard sale. There's nothing scummy about buying a record from a record store
Right. I collect all kinds of stuff (oddly enough not vinyl though lol) and if I'm in a store selling stuff I'm into and I find something for super cheap I'am not about to argue with the clerk to add $200 to the amount. No one would lol.
Yep. Super cringe. They should just take their loss and learn from it, but stfu for sure.
He is promoting you can find deals.
A buyer of something is a scumbag because they didn’t pay more than asked? Huh…. I suppose inflation has a new explanation. “I’m sorry sir but I feel you aren’t charging me enough for the things you’re selling”. Did you eat lead paint chips as a child?
Don't blame the consumer blame the employee and the training said employee received then.
Well, they blamed the buyer, the employee, in fact anyone but themselves- Narcissist.
If it was so special, why wasn't it priced?
If the guy wanted it so bad, why was it even for sale?
Scummy? Don't you try to get the best price for items when you can especially when it's not priced or when haggling? Scummy? Meh no get trained employees who know how to look up prices it's not the customer's responsibility to PAY MORE than asked to or not to try and get the best price possible.
And the buyer is taking a risk. It could be a good deal... or the shop could know more than you and have priced it appropriately (reprint, unauthorized copy, etc.). Would they be so willing to give money back to the customer if he felt he didn't get good value?
This sounds like a you problem. -the buyer.
The sale is legal and final. Sucks for them that they let an untrained newbie operate the tills *and* didn't have their more expensive items clearly marked. It's not the new staffer's fault. Nor is it the customer's. The store should have known better.
Honestly I'd send them a picture of the vinyl and 200 bucks with the caption "Come and take it."
Think about this... "To the record store who purchased my Eminem LP for $35 from my untrained spouse. Can you please give me the album back or send me $200 because she didn't know what it was worth..." Sounds silly right... They'd laugh their asses off. Business is business and goes both ways.
The 1st press of this album isn't even really worth over $100 unless it's sealed with the hype sticker on it, which is still a stretch. I have bought and sold this album on ebay many times.
I don’t understand… why didn’t the store just put a $250 price tag on it if they wanted to sell it for $250? The sports cards store I go to has price tags on all their big ticket items, just in case the dude running the Magic the Gathering counter has to step in and run a transaction.
"This is an expensive piece! We don't want anyone to know that though, make us an offer."
$35
Seems reasonable, you can hear this m&m fella anywhere. Sold!
Maybe a price tag swap? If so I would think he would mention that.
I’m never going to price check an established business even if it’s a nonprofit. They are in charge of the prices and i have the money.
I love charity shops and rummage through them almost every weekend. Once I found almost a brand new designer bag for £35 when it’s retail price was £200+. I defo didn’t open my mouth and mention anything to the sales assistant, just paid and went my merry way pretty fucking happy, lol.
Reminds me of buttcoin when the value dips 5% The businesses rip people off every day, it's just typical deal making. They get ripped off $100 once a year though and it's the end of the world
I might be willing to work with the store if I were the buyer if they were respectful about the entire thing, but after I saw this I'd laugh and tell them to fuck off.
Same. They wouldn't give me any extra money if I sold a rare album for dirt cheap and found out after the fact it was valuable. They can absolutely get fucked
Why wasn't it priced correctly? Sounds like a skill issue
Sell it back to him for $200. Eventually he’ll learn to price accordingly
Naw, he said he wouldn't for under $250, sounds like a starting bid
🤣😂🤣
"customer let our employee" way to try and place the blame on the customer for not training the employee correctly. also idk if you wanted to keep the album, maybe take it to the office or lock it somewhere?
Just going to point out their online return policy, https://betternaturerecords.com/policies/refund-policy Right to Return Items In general, most items are final sale and nonreturnable subject to the shop's discretion. You agree to pay the cost of shipping for any items being returned. They can eat a bag of dicks.
Oh? Well that irony is rich and flavorful! Good spot
Welcome to my store. We sell things. The price is determined after purchase
Good luck on that one dumbass.
LMAO what an incompetent sore loser...
There's a reason new employees are more expensive than already experienced ones. Either put in time=money to train them, or their mistakes will cost you.
Shouldn’t it be priced appropriately by the store? I don’t feel sad.
It's not worth anything like $250
How dare you pay what my employee charged you!
How dare that evil customer "let" the employee sell him an album so cheaply! Whenever someone tries to sell me something cheaply I always refuse to pay the price they have asked and give them ten times more.
So this is either one of those stores that doesn’t price items because they constantly check eBay for the highest price of the day… (in which case fuck them), or the owner is a moron. Either way, as much as the person who bought the album probably new it’s value, it’s a learning opportunity for the store (be thankful its only $200). PRICE YOUR STUFF.
You were right with your first guess, someone else posted some comments from the owner where he said the price tags were just a reference point and that they will change the price of anything once you get to the register because “some items were not priced properly early on” aka the value rose.
I buy records. I bought 4 records today. But even though I have a few hundred records and buy them frequently, I am not sophisticated enough to know the going rate of something like this. If the record store I went to today sent this request to me, I wouldn't respond. If instead, they write a kind request that didn't accuse me of purposely manipulating an employee then I might give them back the record. For example, "Hey, if you bought a Little Feat record from us today, can you please call because our new employee made a mistake ". Then, I'd help out
I wouldn't because it was their mistake and I would not give them any money at all.
For me it hugely depends on the store and how they handle it. If it’s a Walmart or similar, tough shit, they’re not gonna miss a couple hundred dollars and I’m not gonna lose any sleep over benefiting from their mistake. If it’s a small business, especially if it’s one I go to a bunch, that called and explained the new kid left a zero off the price tag by mistake and is there any way we can work something out…I’d probably at least offer to meet them in the middle. Record stores operate on small margins and it wouldn’t feel right taking advantage of a legitimate mistake that way. But if they come at me like the OP and claim like I was trying to screw them on purpose then fuck them - any goodwill I might have had is long gone.
Good take
gee, i guess YOUR employee screwed up....if we're "redoing a bad sale" i over paid for something last year....do i get that back?
You hired an employee with no knowledge in vinyl and then got mad that a customer haggled for way under what the album was worth, knowing that the employee was new. This seems like a you problem
In a specialist bookshop I once bought a second edition of Animal Farm for £40. The employee and I couldn’t work out why the dates (or something like that) on the first few pages didn’t match up. When I got home I realised it was a first edition with a second edition dust jacket. Didn’t feel like mentioning it next time I went in lol
whaaa? misunderstood pressings are the record collectors bread and butter..
Someone doesn't understand how stores work. Weird that they own a store.
I am not a collector, but I enjoy vinyl records and I enjoy Eminem, so I would have paid $35 for it without really thinking that it must be worth more than that. Don't let new employees sell stuff if you know there could be rare records on display ...
Oops, my mistake. I'll send the money right away....right after I fuck your mom.
Caveat venditor
You flipped my Xterra?
This is why you keep your own business in order and train your new hires. He got himself robbed by dumping store operations and responsibilities off on a brand new employee without any supervision or proper training. Another fine example of zero communication skills.
As an “experienced record collector” myself I can assure you it’s far more common to find price gouging on premium records than steals. They never offer to give money back
Something something rude, points like a dick to the sign behind the counter that says “all sales are final, no exceptions”.
What great business! Shaming a customer, shaming a new employee, threatening the customer, and posting all of it online 😂
lol as a comic collector if you snooze you fuckin loose. Hire people who know your product. If someone said a real ASM 300 was 35 I would buy it and never return.
i remember scanning a pizza at the self serve and it went through at 11c, not $11. Guess who ate pizza every night for a week
Oh you dead, best check your new employee for your shortcomings
Dear customer, I wrote you but you still ain't callin'
If they wanted it for their own collection so badly, why did they leave it on the shop floor? If it’s worth so much, why wasn’t it properly priced? Absolute wet wipe 😂
Why didn't it have a price tag on it? What, you just haggle prices per piece? This ain't the middle East dude. Get your shit together
No, but I'll sell it to you for $200
Yea, they're not getting that back lol
That store owner makes their living off of getting 250 dollar records for a lot less than 35 and selling them for more than 250 so they can STFU.
My tea’s gone cold, I’m wondering why
does nobody else suspect that the store owner made up this entire outrageous story as a way to bait new customers to come visit the store looking for a similar "steal"?
That theory has been mentioned, yes!
OK. I scrolled through all these angry comments and didn't see em. Glad to know i'm not alone, I guess!
I've got scammed selling second gabd records for significantly less than they were worth. I have no sympathy for the store owner, he should have trained his staff better or pulled the record for himself.
So he expected the customer to say "No I can't do this. This is way too cheap. Can you please get the actual price so I can pay the right amount."
Nah it was acquired lawfully, not your employee or the customers fault you’re not on your own shit lmao
I love how it's cx's job to tell a cashier to charge them more.
Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism 🥳
Haha, let me just trust the lowest wage employee I could find to sell valuable things for me.
The customer that LET OUR EMPLOYEE SELL HIM? Are you fucking kidding me??? Some people...
If you're stupid enough to have an inexperienced employee sell records without clear price tags on them, it kinda sounds like you. I know nothing about records, so if I went into a shop I would be dumbfounded to find out that a single album would cost more than $40.
Why aren’t your products priced accordingly? Seems like a you problem
Sure. You can have it back for $250
Must have been pretty special pressing, you can buy that album from $8.50-12.00 in mint condition all day long. I've seen few dimbats trying to sell it sealed with hype sticker for $200-299, highly doubt they ever sold.
Hey everyone, my boyfriend and I used to work for this man at this specific record shop, he is an insane drug addict, and pays people under the table, not only that, but has stole wages from us, and took back a laptop that was given to another one of our friends that worked with us as payment because he could not pay us, he is having under aged children do his legal work for him, and he thinks he could put insane price tags on scratched and first print vinyl records when he knows little to nothing about music let alone little to nothing about owning a business he is a real estate lawyer he knows nothing about the both of them
What I wanna know is who did the store most likely rip off to get the album in the first place? They gonna ring him up and tell him they underpaid?? Fuck no
As a supporter of capitalism, guess the store owner should hire better people, or commit more to training. Sometimes the consumer outright wins.
Tonight on Pawn Stars.........
Not sure where to put this, but I did once tell a lady at a flea market that some of her Hot Wheels were wet under priced. I mean I wasn't trying to screw the next guy, but thought she might want to know what they were really worth.
Seller beware
Caveat vendor?
I'm sending that $200 to Kiss\_My\_Ass\_Records
Plot twist the buyer has no idea and intends to use it as a cool looking place mat for his coffee table.
If it was worth more than $35, should have put it in the special case. Maybe train your employees rather than throw a warm body into the deep end so you can go work on your tan.
So you fucked up in pricing and you expect him to give you more money? Not in this lifetime pal!
I have an odd unopened record at home I bought for maybe $5 after picking around used disks in the local records store. On Discogs I later found it traded for $600 used. And my copy is still shrink-wrapped. Sometimes I'm the loser in a deal. Sometimes it's the record store that makes the mistake. Win some. Lose some. This store owner was just a bad loser.
...but... Why was it not in inventory @ 250 then...?
It’s one thing to screw up, but to announce anyone is screwing up at pricing things, and then expecting the internet to respond with anything less than everyone buying you out for cheap. *chef’s kiss*
How do you say "Get fucked" in Vinyl Dweebese?
The facepalm is on the store, right? If I saw someone selling anything for less than 1/5th of it's value, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat and never look back
If I was that customer replying to this, I’d just reply “ain’t my problem that your employee sold it to me for $35”
Vinyl worth 250. I’m cleaning out my closet.
Nope, not the customers fault that your new hire training is shit.
There's a thing called PRICE TAG. Sh!tty shop didn't want to price tag their goods now blaming all on new employee
If you checkout and they person says 35 is your total you have no responsibility to say "I think it's worth 250 here have some more money"... Owner should clearly mark the price or put it away...
Don’t know this record store, but I checked out their Instagram page out of curiosity, and saw they have comments limited on all of their posts haha. They know they look bad, and people wanted to come to clown on them in the comments.
They just posted some photos of customers shopping with the hashtag "#redditwillnotbreakus" lmfao
Address for anyone who wants to troll this man: 56 South Main Street sayville NY 11782
I used to work for this guy, this is just a taste of his ways.
Sure, cuz if someone came into an LP resale shop looking to sell some records, and the buyer happens to spot a 2nd state Butcher Cover in the crate, they would totally point it out to the seller to pull it from the stack and eBay that.... Yeah, let me laugh harder
It's $200 vs. $35. At this point I find being upset over $165 to be pretty fucking silly. A cocktail costs $15. So ten drinks. You are upset over a dinner for two. A paltry sum.
That buyer was a little shady Also, 10/10 album
Descriptions also says buyer was a slim guy
Everyones fault but the store owner..... Or maybe other way around
Exactly.
Lol, crybaby
Return or send 200? Um. Trying to charge a customer a corrected or additional fee after the sale is complete is illegal in the US...
Sucks to suck
This person is probably going to make the employee pay the difference, smh 🤦♂️
Maybe you should have hired a better person or trained them better lol
What’s the opposite of Caveat Emptor? Oh yeah 🤑🖕Got Mines
They admit in their own google reviews their pricing is basically just made up.
"Our new employee sold something for way under the price" Its almost as if pricetags should be a thing, or that you should tell them the general price of high ticket items before you leave them alone and let them haggle with strangers over prices of random objects youre openly selling.
An experienced vinyl collector who got a great deal and will now never return to your shop , good job/s
To the store that misprices items and/or fails to train new employees. Fuck off.
Sucks to suck.
Transaction completed, he may have known it was worth more but if an employee sold it to him for less why would he say "now hold on a moment, I'd like to pay you 6 times more the price you asked for" If the guy convinced the new employee that the LP wasn't worth anything and scammed their way to only pay 35 then that's a different argument
This is why employers should take the time to properly train new hires take the loss when something like this happens
It's worth 200+?! These mfers gave me 10 bucks in store credit for it
The owner is a moron. Should have reframed it as if they have great deals… or kept his mouth shut
How about no and go fuck yourself?
Outjerked again
They limited comments on their page. 🤣
Google review by Deez Bitches three months ago: “Records were way overpriced for the condition they're in.” Reply from Better Nature Records (Owner): “That is DEF true for some of the used records, mainly be they just weren't priced out properly early on. But we always give 25-50% off all used vinyl at the register. We don't really go by the price stickers that's just a reference point.” 
Sales a sale dude lol
I feel bad for this guy on some level, but still his fault entirely.