Thought I would share an experience from Stamping show

A friend of mine and I went to the Puyallup Fair Grounds (in Washington) for
a stamping show.
The "event" happened at a booth for Judith's Stamps.
We were given a small catalog of some sort and a plastic shoe box to put the
items that we wanted to purchase. We were approached 3 times on our way
through the booth. One remark was "that is the stance of someone not buying
anything. We kind of laughed it off and continued through the area. We
have been going to these shows for a few years and always leave with many
new and exciting items. In fact last year we both bought several stamps at
this very booth. We like to walk through and look and if anything catches
our eye we make note of it. Then we like to walk though again. Well on our
first pass though the booth when we came to the end with our shoe boxes
empty we were approached again. This time the woman took both shoe boxes
and told us to make room for people who wanted to spend money. I was
shocked, my friend tried to think she must be joking with us, and then
realized she was dead serious. The most interesting part of this story is
the person who did these things and said these things to us was none other
than JUDITH herself. You can bet we will not be looking in her booth again.
I don't care if she was having a bad day or not. There is no excuse for
this kind of behavior.

Wow.

Thanks for relating the story. Talk about bad business practice. I
would not be spending any more money on that company's stamps, either,
after that kind of treatment! I'm like you - I'll browse all the booths
and watch the demos, take it all in, and then go back to make my
purchases later on in the day. I don't have any Judith Stamps myself,
but will be wary if I see their booth at future shows.

--Barbara

lh wrote:
A friend of mine and I went to the Puyallup Fair Grounds (in Washington) for
a stamping show.
The "event" happened at a booth for Judith's Stamps.
We were given a small catalog of some sort and a plastic shoe box to put the
items that we wanted to purchase. We were approached 3 times on our way
through the booth. One remark was "that is the stance of someone not buying
anything. We kind of laughed it off and continued through the area. We
have been going to these shows for a few years and always leave with many
new and exciting items. In fact last year we both bought several stamps at
this very booth. We like to walk through and look and if anything catches
our eye we make note of it. Then we like to walk though again. Well on our
first pass though the booth when we came to the end with our shoe boxes
empty we were approached again. This time the woman took both shoe boxes
and told us to make room for people who wanted to spend money. I was
shocked, my friend tried to think she must be joking with us, and then
realized she was dead serious. The most interesting part of this story is
the person who did these things and said these things to us was none other
than JUDITH herself. You can bet we will not be looking in her booth again.
I don't care if she was having a bad day or not. There is no excuse for
this kind of behavior.

It doesn't look like Judith & Co. are going to be at the St. Louis
Convention. LUCKY HER!
I'm going with some freinds I use to work with. We worked for the
Dept.of Defense, mainly the MARINES! You learned the first rule of
survival is "Take no poop from anyone" Judith would have found her
words meant no sales from any of us and she would have found that we
would have chewed up up sooo bad. I worked customer service for years
and no matter how bad your day is you never insult the customer. You
can say lots of things to yourself but never out loud.