A rant about Buffalo Exchange.
This is one of my only forums for rants longer than 140 characters… so here goes. Subject matter: the bad-mood-generator that is Buffalo Exchange.
Can we just talk for a second about how completely stupid Buffalo Exchange is? I am in a major closet clean-out tear right now and I had some really cute shoes and a couple tops that I no longer want, but thought were worthy of more than just the donation bag for Goodwill. Also, they were still just cute enough that I probably would have let them just keep sitting in my closet if I didn’t have a little motivation ($$) to ditch them from my collection.
So I went over to Buffalo Exchange and they explained to me that they’d go through my clothes and price any items they wanted to sell and offer me either 50% in store credit or 35% in cash. “Please walk around the store while we go through your stuff.” So I’m looking around at the crap on their racks and shelves and feeling pretty good about what I had given them to potentially buy. They had shoes and tops wayyyyy lamer and in worse condition than mine. They had a vest that looked like it was worn in a Color Me Badd video, etc. etc.
I poked around for about 5 or 10 minutes before the buyer girl came and found me. “Sorry, we’re actually not going to take any of your stuff. We’re not buying any of those cuts right now.”
Oh really? You’re not buying that cut of shoe? Come on.
And then the kicker: “You can keep looking around to see if you find anything you like.”
Keep looking around? You just insulted my taste and didn’t even offer me anything for any of my clothes. Might as well drop the word “exchange” from the store name. They could have at least bought one thing. ONE MEASLY THING. They could have bought one measly t-shirt and lied to me saying they were going to sell it for $5. And they could say: if it’s under $5 (or $10 or whatever threshold), we only give you store credit. So then at least I would have a happy customer feeling that I wasn’t a complete loser. And then I would VERY likely walk around the store until I found something worth the amount of store credit ($2.50 for those doing the math in this example), which we all know is impossible. And then I would end up spending even more money (and time) in the store. And then Buffalo Exchange could just turn around and throw the t-shirt in their own donation pile. And walk away with the profit. And a happy customer.
Why is Buffalo Exchange not hip to this concept? Fix it! Wahhh!
And also: watch me now go home and put all this crap back in my closet that I was ready to part with just an hour ago.
Hulk smash.
Why don’t they just call the store “Buffalo Make You Feel Like a Dumdum”.
