Can I help you?

You've done your research and you've got a plan. You want to grow some dope and build a real nice set up in order to do so. So you wander down to the hardware store with a list of things to get and you're browsing through the isles. Or you're at the local garden centre looking for supplies. Sure enough, like any good costumer service rep would do, you hear a "Hi! Can I help you with anything?" Turns out you do need help. You can't seem to find that one item. Or you're looking at something but not sure if it's what you're looking for so you need to know more about it. Sure enough, like any good costumer rep would do, they ask you "Well what are you trying to do? What's it for?" .................

Any good stories when dealing with store reps? Lies you've told, conversations you've maneuvered around? I'm thinking there's some good stories here.

I used to frequent a local Hardware for supplies now and then .. I would always divert the questions asked by asking my own .. I did have to stretch the truth now and then ..

A good example would be asking for extra heavy duty chains and hooks for my imaginary pool table lighting ..

You should have seen the faces on the girls at my eye glass store. I explained to them that I require uv protection on all my glasses due to the fact that I work under HID's in an indoor medical operation. Everything was cool until I said something about cannabis, personalities changed and they couldn't get me out of there fast enough.

People just don't understand.

2013 - Ace Hardware stocks Fox Farms products and there is no need to beat around the bush .

looking for some good chains for a crazy weekend with the wife, oh, and I need duct tape too.

Lol "things changed once I mentioned cannabis"

prosperian said:

looking for some good chains for a crazy weekend with the wife, oh, and I need duct tape too.

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is the chains for the light and the tape for the ventilation ?

Slipon said:

is the chains for the light and the tape for the ventilation ?

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no, it's really for a crazy weekend with the wife, hee hee, i am that kinky


Just playing around... I easily made 20 trips to the hardware store buying everything last year for my closet. I never felt uncomfortable asking for things. When asked why? "project at home". They don't need that information unless you haven't done your homework in advance. Most of them only know how to point you to things anyway. No offense to any hardware store employee members. I love you guys!

yea I "love" when you ask a simple question and the guy/girl just look like you ask of the meaning of life, then tell you to wait and never come back, when you ask another he try to look it up on his screen, or he act like he is, but end up giving you useless advice, I wish shop owners was thinking a bit more about hiring (and paying) the right personal instead of pure profit, my local "Walmart" have mostly senior half time personal or very young Ppl. working there, night have much knowledge's or care much, atleast that how it make me fell, thanks God for the internet and google, do your research, twice before you go there, might even want to call em and ask if they even have it at home, if they have some to answer the phone that is or the ability to see if they actually have it home ..

...i agree on doing your research before you head to the store, i do before i even go to the indoor garden supply store that dumb bitch that runs it doesnt kno shit, you cant ask her for advice or anything cuz she acts like she knos and basicaly talks in circles like you asked the hardest question in the world.....you just gotta kno what you want before you go there, and dont ask questions while your there lol

Ya, makes sense. I'm learning too much research is better than just enough.

My thing is I like to go to the store to see what's available and if it will work for what I'm trying to do, sometimes making multiple trips to "price out" some things. But even still I find I always gotta few questions to ask.

Was askin the guy at the garden centre about nutes the other day. Hesitantly he asked "uuuh, what um, whatcha tryin to grow?" like he had his suspicions. He had a lot of info on the "tomatoes" I'm trying to get an early start on this year.

Veggie garden my main excuse.. I don't eat processed food then just start talking about chemicals farmers use and insert some made up conspiracy... They will find your part and have you out the door

I usually go the the grow store and you can say and ask most anything there. Once however was in a hurry and stopped at the local nursery near my house. They all know me as have been buying garden supples there for years. They started selling grow supplies a few years ago but never bought anything there since they know me. I got some Bud Candy, Big Bud and worm castings. The owner, who was working the cash register, looked at me in disbelief when I walked up and laid the stuff on the counter. She asked me what I had going and the only thing I could think of was to say I grow tomatoes all year long. She just laughed and said SURE. Now when ever I go in for garden supplies she always finds the time to say hello. Makes me wonder what she is growing at home.

It's hard to explain the need for peat in December.... Awkward!

Ace Hardware stocks Fox Farms products

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This is good to know. Thanks.

On a similarly humorous note, when getting started in mycology,
I snuck into Amazon, looking to quietly buy some agar-agar, when
I noticed the webpage subsection "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought"
...LMAO, there they were, all the materials that growing mushrooms requires.

The computers at Google, Amazon, etc, do not have any problem seeing
patterns of behavior.

When I went to Ace for some parts for an outdoor mushroom fruiting chamber,
I went ahead and just described it to the person there....seemed easier.

Skirting the issues of pot cultivation is a bit simpler....tomatoes are my favorite too.

JD

Javadog said:

On a similarly humorous note, when getting started in mycology,
I snuck into Amazon, looking to quietly buy some agar-agar, when
I noticed the webpage subsection "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought"
...LMAO, there they were, all the materials that growing mushrooms requires.

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Lol! Customers who bought this item also bought; clear plastic tote bin, syringe, canning jars, brown rice flower.

oh amazon!

You nailed it!

I'm growing herbs in an indoor garden to sell to local restaurants.

Lol one more comment on mycology; had to ask a sales rep if they had "half sized canning jars that taper out towards the top". "Gotta say there's not really a demand for that specific of a jar at this time of year (Jan)" he says.

ProfessorPotSnob said:

2013 - Ace Hardware stocks Fox Farms products and there is no need to beat around the bush .

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Really!?!?!?!
HM.
OK, I'll remember that if I decide to try it, LOL.
I've got 3 Ace's close by.