This is a reply to StriperJims' rant on the tackle industry.
I am a Sportscard and Memorabilia shop owner, I go thru this kind of crap with the alleged friends who come along in this business and then try to use Me for all they can get. I can't count the amount of absolute scumbags this hobby seems to collect. I've got one I tossed out today, claims he's an ex undercover cop. Now on disability (and now trying to milk his third insurance settlement) all for different things. Had the nerve to walk in my store, brag about the $800,000.00 settlement check he's expecting next week, then tries to get me to knock $5 off of a card I have marked at $10 THAT BOOKS $15 IN THE GUIDES. What a scumbag. I go thru this and other crap 24/7 (excuse the copyright infringment) every single day in my store. Like the woman who called trying to get a nice Patriots leather jacket I have, by trading for it. When I said no she hit me with this "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, MY HUSBAND HAS TO HAVE THAT FOR HIS BIRTHDAY) I tell her again I want cash and she goes at it again, same crap, I say cash and hang up. TEN MINUTES!!! later she calls back, I recognize voice, she asks if I buy cards, By now I'm pissed, I say look lady whats the difference if you try to trade me junk i DON'T WANT, OR SELL ME IT SO YOU CAN THEN BUY THE JACKET. IT'S THE SAME FOR ME.... I WANT CASH! SHE THEN HAD THE NERVE TO ASK WHY I WAS SO ANGRY! I said from dealing with idiots like you! I could tell you stories that would make you sick of the human race if you had the time to listen. I once had a guy drive from out of state, (he looked like Burl Ives!) just to rip off one $3.25 cent pack of cards! I've had people bring kids in (one in a carrage, one four year old)open the door to my store, drop the kids inside and then proceed to go to the grocery store next door for 1/2 hour of shopping!While the kid in carrage gets out and climbs inside of one of my display cases, and the other one is playing cars with my expensive die cast! This woman couldn't understand why I was upset that she dropped her rugrats off in a store with a quarter million dollar inventory. I've had people ask to borrow bathroom, then piss all over my toilet the floor, the wall!!! Nothing you said offended me.