Bernardo Gui wrote:
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:25:56 -0700, DerbyDad03
wrote:


The other day SWMBO says to me "I'd like those Bordeaux colored
shutters that I saw at Lowes."

So I take the new shutters over to the paint counter and asked for a
quart of matching paint for the trim. The guy in the red vest tries to
find the color Bordeaux in his computer. No go. He tries a couple of
paint chips but nothing matches. He tries to hold the 48" shutters up
to the little tiny color matching computer lens - the resulting
formula is not even close. "Sorry, I don't think I can match it."

I drive down the road to a local paint store and bring the shutters
in. The guy behind the counter grabs a keychain full of little
miniature shutters and finds one that's fairly close. "Let's start
with this and we'll tweak it from there." He mixes the formula found
on the back of the mini-shutter, brings it over and declares it "too
purple". A couple of drops of this and that and he hits it perfect on
the next try.

When I told him what happened at Lowes he said the computers don't
work very well with dark colors and the guys behind the counter are
too lazy to try and match the paint manually. Guess where I'm going
the next time I need paint?


You get what you pay for (most of the time). You were a customer with
highly specific needs, and you should go to a higher-priced store to
get the attention you wanted.

Of course, you'd be a knucklehead to go to that same place for a can
of standard-color paint that you can easily find on one of the
gazillions of paint sample cards at Lowes.

Bernardo

I would be a fool then. With the automatic discount that I
get at the real paint stores, plus the higher quality paint
that I get, I come out ahead every time. Plus, it only takes
a minute or two unless I come in when there are alot of
customers. Even then, it is usually MUCH faster than the big
box stores. So I save money AND time. I guess I am just a
fool for economy.

The real fools are the ones that think that Home Depot and
Lowes are cheaper.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX