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04-17-2010, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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What is a good response to blackmail?
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This was in the comments section of an order recently:
"Give me a free shirt or something or I will shop at my local homebrew store."
About once a month I get comments like this.
Forrest
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04-17-2010, 02:55 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"Get used to whatever it was that made you stop shopping at your local homebrew store and start shopping here, because, no."
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04-17-2010, 03:04 PM
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Vendor
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Janesville, WI
Posts: 1,501
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That's not right, either they want to shop at your store or not, blackmail is not cool!
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04-17-2010, 03:14 PM
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big beers turn my gears
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Phoenix AZ
Posts: 2,653
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Go to Good Will, find the rattiest, stained T-shirt for 50 cents and send it to him with his order. Apologize about the delay in shipping his order because you had to go get him a shirt. Thats what I would do and probably why I never wanted to go into business for myself. No restraint for unreasonable requests.
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04-17-2010, 03:21 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: WY
Posts: 117
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Quote:
Originally Posted by beerthirty
Go to Good Will, find the rattiest, stained T-shirt for 50 cents and send it to him with his order. Apologize about the delay in shipping his order because you had to go get him a shirt.
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Ha yes! That's a great idea. Or maybe a pink one with bunnies rainbows and unicorns.
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Cooking with beer? Been doing it for years.
Add it to the food? I'll have to try it sometime.
Sad day, sold my brewing equipment as I'm leaving town to work on a sailboat.
Kegged: Hopped up Amber Ale
Cellared: Cheddar
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04-17-2010, 03:22 PM
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Ichthyophagous Maximus
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Eagle, Idaho
Posts: 1,267
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My response would be shop at your LHBS.
Better yet, don't respond at all. Those people will not be good customers anyway, so don't respond.
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04-17-2010, 03:25 PM
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Vendor
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Janesville, WI
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Thats funny, I was donating some goods to the Goodwill a few weeks back so I went in and looked around and found an Ommegang t-shirt for 2 bucks!
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04-17-2010, 03:28 PM
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Cranky Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Willamina & Oak Grove, Oregon, USA
Posts: 24,799
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"Thank you for your business in the past, best wishes on your future brewing."
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04-17-2010, 03:38 PM
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Here's the Beers!
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Maricopa AZ
Posts: 6,709
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Quote:
Originally Posted by david_42
"Thank you for your business in the past, best wishes on your future brewing."
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+1 here, just keep it professional and above the board, but the goodwill shirt is a good idea too!!!
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04-17-2010, 03:39 PM
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I Like Beer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
Posts: 6,888
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Wow, that's pretty tacky. +1 on the above about not responding. probably the best response. Alternatively, you could throw in something pretty close to worth nothing, like a bag of bottle caps.
Don't let idiots get you down!
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