So I have a customer today with a 770 Beacon Score -

I work in a cell phone store, and, as I'm sure most know, when you sign up for service, with a contract, your credit is considered by the service provider to determine whether there'll be a deposit required.

So I'm talking to this customer, who just thinks he's gonna wheel and deal himself into some super-special, just-for-him deal, and other customers are walking in.

We finally pick out a phone - a camera phone that I'm supposed to sell for a few bucks but I sell to him for only $10, and then throw in a car charger for free. Not a bad deal on equipment. This is an add-on line to a current line he has. He then asks me how much it'd be for a new phone for him. I tell him full price. He says, "I told you I have a 770 Beacon core." I'm like, yeah...and, I'll sell you a phone at my cost, but I'm not going to lose money on the deal. He says, "alright, let's go ahead and get this over then, I'll give that business to someone else." He doesn't understand how it works, and his attitude is just about to piss me off.

So we hook up the line, I go over the contract with him, which includes a $20 activation fee (charged by the service provider, not me) and he balks, "I ain't never paid no activation fees and I ain't going to. I've got a 770 Beacon score. That Lincoln Towne Car outside is paid for, I've got $100,000 worth of credit cards in my back pocket. I've got credit as good as the president." (to which I reply, after a pause, "no comment") He continues, "I ain't somebody that just walked in off the street. That 770 Beacon score is supposed to mean something. Special perks...."

He's saying this stuff loudly, and, pardon me for assuming (as it turns out, correctly), the people waiting for me to finish with him were almost surely, like myself, not of his credit level. And he's talking like he should get someting more than "them" because he's got some fucking number attached to his name.

I replied that I treat everyone special, and I'd make a call tomorrow to see if I can get his activation fee waived. "I'll bring the phone back if you don't."

"I'm going to try to get everyone's fee's waived today" I say. You can call me tomorrow to see if I was able to do that.

"I will," he says, glaring at me for not rolling out some red carpet, especially reserved for him, out the door, dragging his ego behind him.

I wanted so badly to say to him, "you don't matter one iota more than anyone else, you shallow, self-absorbed fuck."

uuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!

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somebody here that might know something like that?

not that I'm advocating anything like that, but, hey......

that someone else gets to wipe his ass for him too?

Who cares? Those scores are fluid--with that much in credit cards, he might not have that score anymore. They change all the time, and just having too many credit checks in a short period can affect the score.

Idiot--nothing makes it okay to be a jerk to the clerk. I don't care how great he thinks he is, it doesn't make it okay to be nasty to you and try to get everything for free.

But you can't blame the man for trying to save a buck! Some people believe there is virtue in haggling and will use every trick in the book to avoid paying an extra twenty bucks. I'm not one of them!

he AIN'T NEVER PAID NO ACTIVATION FEES? Man that's some bad grammar. Maybe 770 was his score on the SAT's. :rofl:

so he can mooch something?

He's got $100,000 worth of credit in his back pocket but he's too cheap to buy his own freakin' phone?

Is THIS an example of why trickle-down does not work?

Seems the more $$$ you have, the more you beg like a homeless person. With apologies to homeless people, who at least have a REASON to beg....

:eyes:

He's racked up trillions of dollars of debt in the last 5 years, too?

too????

THAT'S my ex-boyfriend! Now you know why I dumped his sorry ass!

clean. Check his fantastic score in about 9 months when he forgets to pay the bills, see how fast it goes from 770 to 360.