I like that you fired customers. LOL you’re my kind of person! Why should we need to worry about trouble some customers there’s plenty and plenty of people who know how healthy and delicious a fresh egg is so it’s usually not too hard to find a new pleasant customer The way I see it is I’m not forcing anybody to buy my eggs and if you don’t like them there’s plenty of other people to buy them from. And there’s customers can be their problem.
The older I get the more I notice I have less tolerance for people. LOL
Amen to that!!! There are enough really nice people in the world who truly value locally produced food and are so happy to find a backyard flock with an opening for a new customer. As we get older, a wise old friend used to say to me - we just become more ourselves.
Personally I have no time for people who don't value my time - i.e. "I'll be there at 3" then wanders in hours later ... which was (temporarily) solved by a cooler on the front porch.
Well, if I don't think to look whether a person actually showed up (I have a busy life too!!) and I find them still in the cooler the next day with the "ice" packs melted, they're only meant to be out there for a max of 8 hours in the summer temps... which leaves me with eggs I would not sell for food safety reasons.
Then she started leaving checks. For 2 dozen eggs. Which means that I then had to stop at the bank to deposit the check for 2 dozen eggs. Uh huh. (ok, I realize there's take a picture of the check for deposit- but I proudly still have the same flip phone from 2008- and until it does- I'm not replacing it.
It didn't go on too long - the 2nd time I was sitting in line at the bank drive thru I watched the clock and asked that very important question- why I am sitting here to cash an $8 check? I always leave my "blue cooler" customers change for a $20- so it's not like she couldn't have made a quick ATM stop - but she wasn't willing to spend HER time doing that - but it was OK for me to spend MY time dealing with her check.
So, she got the 'you're fired' email - I immediately found someone else who was excited to find eggs available, and returned things to the way they're meant to be. Chickens lay the eggs, I collect them, weigh them to ensure they meet at least the "large" net weight, sell to customer, put cash in lockbox.
I know, that got a little rant-esque. There have been a couple others along the line- people who haggle. I have no problem offering quantity discounts to people who buy on a regular schedule, always bring cartons back etc., but when the conversation turns to "I can buy eggs for (whatever price) from the grocery store" -- that is it. Generally I (politely) invite them to buy eggs from their grocery store. =)
