Black List!!!

 We have many lists in out lives - there is the wish list, the to do list, the list of things you keep putting off , shopping list, the A list and the D list. Well I also have a black list.

Having been in business for a long time I have seen many things. I generaly see the best in people. But I have also seen the worst too. Today's topic is about my black list it has one person on it. I hope that my black list doesnt get any longer. This is the story of how my black list came to exist.

Last year, I got this gorgeous Louis Vuitton Hampstead in absolutely pristine condition, naturally everyone who saw it fell in love with it. About 2 days after it arrived in store one of the regular visitors to the shop fell in love with it and decided she wanted it.

Well she pushed hard for a discount but I wasnt budging. I knew I could sell it even without a discount. Finally after two hours of pleading with me she agreed to pay my price. But she would put it on layby. She drip fed money in and took 3 months to pay it off...and then she only grudginly came in and made the final payment because I told her she had exceeded the layby time and I was taking back the goods and her deposit if it wasnt paid and picked up.

(Haras) as this person is known because that is how you feel after having had to deal with her for more than two minutes. (I know that's not how you spell Haras ;)  ) So anyway getting back to the story Haras came in to pick up her bag and proceeded to use it for over a month before bringing it back and telling me "I saw a fat woman at Ferry Road Market with the same bag!!!! So I don't want it anymore." I had to explain to her that just because someone else had the same Louis Vuitton bag this was not a valid reason to return the bag!! " NO NO NO !!!" Haras shrieked "Your missing my point- the woman was really fat!!! " Finally I had had enough and told Haras to take her bag home because I had better ways to spend 3 hours on a busy Saturday morning in the shop 3 weeks before Christmas!!!

You might think- end of story BUT no there is more! Haras waited for a day that I was not working in the shop and decided to try her luck again with a staff member we will call her Norashii. Only this time she made a fatal mistake. (The real reason she wanted to return her bag was she had been was she had been on a trip to Thailand and found "this great copy" even she couldn't tell the difference.) Well apparently not because she returned the copy for a refund and kept the real bag. I dont keep cash in the store and No rashii informed Haras that she would have to speak to me again...because I was the only one who could issue a refund. I was hopping mad when I got this terse phone call from Haras who told me I had 7 days to refund her money or she would make a complaint to Fair trade. I told her she had 7 minutes to pick up her copy before I reported her to the police for trying to defraud me!!!

That day I went into Facebook downloaded her profile pic and stuck it on the stock room door!! The note underneath it reads "BLACK LISTED DO NOT SELL THIS WOMEN ANYTHING!!!"  

FYI -The last we heard from Haras was in the Gold Coast Bullie- her husband was arrested for drug trafficing and all her fake bags were lined up on the front lawn and photographed by the police before the whole lot were confiscated. We dont see her on Chevron Island anymore.  I dont miss her...I am not sure if anyone else does!!