Customers and the funny things they say

i just love it when a customer comes in and and says:

"is there free installation?"...on everything

"well i can get that at so and so's for this less than half that much"...i reply with "you better head over there then i guess"

"i can install it myself.......what wires go where?"

"you mean i have to pay tax on that?!"

customer calls 10 minutes before we close...

them: "what time do you close?"

me: "7 o'clock"

them: "do you have time to install an alarm real quick?"

customer comes in 20 minutes or so before we close...

them: when do you close?

us: in about 20 minutes

them: do you have time to do this [six hour] job?

(sure...i don't have a home to go to after work...let me stay here and work on your car until tomorrow)

  Customer came in and wants to buy a sub.  I ask what kind of amp he is using or if he need to get an amp as well.  He tells me it s 300 watts, so i ask is it mono or a 2ch or what?  He tells me it s the 300 watt bose amp that came in his new mazda.  At that point  I try to explain to him why he s going to want an aftermarket amp and that his factory amp is not designed to run a 12" kicker sub.  Thats when he tells me I dont know what Im talking about , his amp will put 300 watts to the sub and his bose is better than any amp we carry,  because the guy at the dealership told him so.

Every once in a while i get the guy that bridged his mono amp to get more power, and his buddy that has a 50x4 head unit with a 400 watt durabrand 4 ch amp thats a total of 600 watts to his highs.

Then there was the guy who wanted to know how much it would be to have his wires buried.  I cant speak for anyone else but I dont keep a shovel in my tool box, however if the customer wants to provide one and pay me $60 an hour I guess I can dig a hole in the ground large enough for an amp kit. 

This might have already been asked does it have to be about car Stereo, I work for Radioshack and the stories I could tell you about cellphones!

I'm not too sure how funny it was, now I giggle a bit but then I was a tad angry.

I work at Best Buy and we had a trend for a week or so of people coming in with air soft guns and my (now fired) trainee thought it was great to shoot me with them while I was at the counter talking to customers, wiring harnesses, installing anything...you get the point.

I was working on a mercury/ford something or other for an alarm, I'm facing the kick and I hear a metalic click and a thud. I slowly turn around to see the louder and more painful end of a Glock and my idiot trainee that had accidently hit the clip release lever dropping the clip onto the seat.  He had this dumbfounded look on his face and stated that he didn't know it was real.  That woulda been a pretty messy oops.

On a funnier note... I did a remote start on a CRV, while connecting the brake wire I broke the brake switch where the treads meet the body of the switch.  For mobility purposes I super and hot glued it so we could shuffle cars around.  I called the customer and let them know that even though I was off the following day I would get the part early morning and have it installed by the time we opened the next day.  After a wild goose chase I tracked down the switch ($7.49) and got to Best Buy almost as we were opening.  I did the swap real quick and started to leave when the customer insisted that I show her what I broke and that everything was fine.  I did and she then insisted that I give her the broken switch back. 

Me: But I bought a new one for you this is my reminder of what not to do. *fake haha*

Her: I bought that switch with my car and I want it back.

Me: I bought the switch IN your car and I want that one back.

My Boss: If you don't shut up I'll clock you in to fire you.

Me: Have a wonderful day, and thank you for shopping at Best Buy. :-)  *throw switch into car*

I have a funny one but Its me that was stupid.

At Best Buy my senior and myself did fiber glass kick panels in a 1987 BMW 5?   The customer brought us a 5or 6 ch McIntosh amp so we knew we had to go all out.  We had just picked up Alpine so we did a Type-R 10 and Type-R 6.5 componants, along with the Type-R 6*9s,  we cut the holes for the 6*9s and carpeted over the grills with black carpet.  We did a beauty board over the amp, and of course the Kicks which were really cool, except the fact that I never checked the clearance of the glove box door opening.  He he.  for those of you that are un-familar... this is the one where the entire passenger side dash drops to reveal the multi shelved, and pocketed glove compartment.  Yeah, never looked into that when I was making my cardboard moch ups. Which I might have caught somewhere during construction but we had to do almost everything at my seniors home after hours due to policy and no chemicals or table saws bla bla bla. so we basicly had to do an install without the car preasent for 50% of it.   I did however run the iPod cable into the glove.  When the customer came to pick it up I went to show him the cable and only then did I realize that it didn't open.  at all.  I remebered clearly pressing the kick up before securing it.  He could have been a better sport about it but I was more angry at myself that he could have ever been.   we never did see him again.