Extremely rude merch person at Fenway

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  • THEBIBLEISTEN
    THEBIBLEISTEN Posts: 2,002
    Regardless if you’re rolling a poster or a dubbie no reason to talk to someone like that. It’s bad customer service. 
  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,249
    Brisk. said:
    I need the merch guys perspective. I can imagine PJ fans being very annoying, especially at the merch table. Mr Tsurt only cares about selling your 40 USD shirts that last 1 wash.
    There are always two sides to every story. As surly as some people in Boston are, I find it hard to believe that the merch guy would get so pissed for the nothing that the OP has posted about his own behavior. The rolling the posters while blocking everyone else waiting to buy merch is a big clue as to the likely recurring theme of this incident...
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  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,981
    Do you have any idea what we do at the merch stand...

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  • F Me In The Brain
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    AlaG said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Who calls someone a bitch mother fucker when no one is around and then runs?

    Sorry you had your merch experience tainted.

    I would stop buying merch.  That'll show that bitch mother fucker.  
    /
    Yeah that’ll show the employee who gets paid an hourly rate regardless of whether or not he sells any merch.
    Yeah that was my sarcasm.  "/"
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,182
    Kick his ass Seabass! 
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  • Force Of Nature
    Force Of Nature York, England Posts: 1,137


    This is how I imagine Pearl Jam fans dealing with merch these days. 
  • thirdbeach
    thirdbeach Posts: 229
    This is by far the most entertaining thread in the Porch right now.
  • MB93672
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    thirdbeach said:
    This is by far the most entertaining thread in the Porch right now.
    Heard chef! 
  • on2legs
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  • demetrios
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    Eraserhead said:
    Do you have any idea what we do at the merch stand...

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  • THEBIBLEISTEN
    THEBIBLEISTEN Posts: 2,002
    Go back to the merch stand today, find the guy who was rude to you and tell him the jerk store called and they’re running out of him. Caaaaaaaaastanza 
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Epic
  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,876
    ten474 said:
    Wanted to post this. Hoping someone who handles merch for the band sees it:

    This is my 13th show on this tour and I've never encountered a merch experience like I had today. The merch people have always been so nice. But today as I was buying merch the person helping me had an attitude from the get go. Every time I asked him for something I needed (sighing and rolling his eyes.) I said to him "What is your problem?" He responded "You are my problem." I was in SHOCK. I wasn't doing anything but trying to buy merch.

    I had my own poster tube and every time I tried to roll my posters up into my tube he would yell at me "You can't do that here!" When he gave me my total he refused to let me look at the screen to double check things which I have always done. When I again asked him why he had an attitude he yelled "Fuck off!" I could not believe it. I was looking around for some sort of authority because I could not believe this person was talking to me this way. Then what seemed to be his supervisor looking on said "Get your stuff and get out of here! And you better not come back tomorrow!" I was in SHOCK. I had no idea what I had done and the cashier behind the counter continued to tell me to "fuck off" and leave. It was literally one of the craziest experiences I have ever had at a Pearl Jam show. 

    AND THEN: After the show on Sunday I was walking past the merch table again. It was late, like almost midnight I think. No one was there.  As I was walking past I saw this kid again. I didn't say anything and he looked at me from behind the merch table and said "Bitch motherfucker!"  I confronted him and he literally ran away to the back.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,260
    edited September 2024
    Don't go to a merch stand expecting the price to be calculated correctly every time.  Leakage.  Get in, and get the F out.  If your Large shirt fits like a Medium, get the F out.  All part of the excitement that is merch.  
  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    bootlegger10 said:
    Don't go to a merch stand expecting the price to be calculated correctly every time.  Leakage.  Get in, and get the F out.  If your Large shirt fits like a Medium, get the F out.  All part of the excitement that is merch.  
    I got a genuine laugh at this.  So true. 
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,691
    I think if you complain about a merch experience, you need to list what you purchased first. 
  • artforbw
    artforbw Posts: 189
    Once one of them started swearing at you, you should have started recording it for proof. Otherwise, I have no reason to believe this story is completely accurate.
    Two sides to every story, and the merch people would probably tell this story very differently. Maybe you were cursing them out, and they were just trying to ask you to leave.
  • AlaG
    AlaG Brookline, MA Posts: 979
    bootlegger10 said:
    Don't go to a merch stand expecting the price to be calculated correctly every time.  Leakage.  Get in, and get the F out.  If your Large shirt fits like a Medium, get the F out.  All part of the excitement that is merch.  
    If you get the posters first and roll them up while they’re grabbing all of your other shit sometimes they don’t get rung up at all. Then if your shirt is the wrong size it’s not really a loss. Order of operations is important here.
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,825
    edited September 2024
    Elderly Rude Merch Person behind the Counter
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  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,137
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    Elderly Rude Merch Person behind the Counter

    ... in a Bean Town

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