its a sad state of affairs in this country iam afraid here is the story | Selling

dobo5250 · 2026-03-30T17:05:53.119000Z

as most of you regular posters know i see hardware store items over the years from a closed hardware store and have sold never turned a profit, but at least breaking even, tell last year covering costs etc recently i decided i needed to, as sales were falling and costs rising there was no joy in what i did and it was becoming a drain on me close my small 1500 item store as i reduced items with each month, the sales started to decrease even more then started free shipping on most of items thinking that would increase sales, what was a few years ago break even now became a complete drain on my resoureces this year each month going further into the hole i have now redcued all my items 65% to 75% off and free expedited shipping still now sales of note - so in despraration i asked why one of my regular cusotmers why he didn't buy like he did before, but now at give away reduced prices-- his anwered shocked me -- he said since i was basically giving the items away- he felt it was a trick, a scam, the items were to cheap to be real or they would be some consiquebnces to the purchace- he didn;t trust the sale -- even though we had dealt for years in busniess - i was shocked i assured him it wasn' t so but i don't think i convinced him and he hasn't bought from me in many many months - i am now every week donateing to habinat for humanity a precentage of my goods so at least i will get a tax write off -against my pension income- and as my credit card is fully maxed out i can't afford tofloat the rent of my storage locker that years ago was covered by sales here -- my god what a sate of affairs when honest people are taken for scam artists -- got to go--on another run to the charity to drop off brand new faucets and bidet units that someone could use and maybe i should feel good about that at least ---- sad sad sad ---

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