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Why businesses think it is ok to make me wait once they receive a phone call?

When I visit a car repair shop, car garage, a store, a shop, any kind of small business and I begin talking to the owner or the service manager, why do they think the phone cals they receive have priority to live customers standing and talking to them? I find it extremely rude when I talk to the business owner and then all of a sudden he receives a phone call and starts walking into another end of the office or outside and tgalks to someone for minutes and sometimes for a very long time making me wait. I understand that the caller maybe an important and repeat customer, who maybe buying a service for a lot of money and >I am usually no one who just spoends $20 to $5000 and that is just rubbish to he business owner that they can ignore and let me wait. Sometimes and usually I just leave and never return to such business or I reduce my purchases there immediately upon such treatment. Especially if they don't excuse themselves. Then he quotes me a ridiculously high price after making me wait 15 minutes and listen to his ridiculous conversation with his other customer. From now on, when this happens and don't wait even a second and leave immediately telling the business I will not be back.

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  • 3 years ago

    You are perfectly able to ask them after the call if the call was important. Look, the world does NOT revolve around you. Businesses get calls for legit reasons, not just random potential customers calling them. Suppliers call about orders, employees call if they're sick or can't make it in, truckers call about deliveries needing to be made at the back door, a business gets calls all the time that are not from actual customers.

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