Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been in Japan 3 times. The likely response, if I were to guess based on my experience, is that they would apologize profusely and scratch the back of their heads trying to explain why you can't see it. I would think that this particular experience is unusual rather than the norm. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > W.R, I think I would have done the same as you, just on instinct. > > Many Japanese people have been wonderfully warm and kind to me in my nine > years here, but no amount of cultural politeness can mask the cool, > unfriendly types one meets here or anywhere else. I suppose your salesman > thought he was being funny. He lost a sale though. > > To add a bit of context, in Japan, a Leica store is like a barrel for > shooting fish. The local customers pay prices higher than anywhere else in > the world, so the salesmen are probably used to foreigners looking, then > asking to handle items they won't buy because they will buy it cheaper in > their home country. The hired sales staff might not know their prices are > inflated, and mikght just think foreigners are a waste of their time and > sales energy. Still, no excuse for rudeness! > > Cheers, > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]