I don't necessarily blame salespeople or potential customers for such situations...
Some customers will throw a fit when salespeople barrage/annoy them with attention, when all the pcustomer wanted to do was look around or try some stuff out.
Some pcustomers will also throw a fit when salespeople
don't shower them with attention.
I worked in sales for a few years and there is a fine line a salesperson must walk because is isn't always clear what type of attention/assistance (if any at all) each pcustomer expects. Yes, we do judge. Sometimes we don't. Once in a while, a kid will make a big purchase--great! But nine times out of ten, that isn't the case, and I don't feel bad about dedicating more effort to someone who
appears more likely to yield a transaction. We are supposed to, and usually
try to help everyone, but at the end of the day, it is a business and our superiors have no choice but to judge us largely on our sales performance, and if I spent equal time/effort helping out
everyone who came in, kids, middle-classers, and upper-classers alike, my sales would be less than if I judged people. In the end, I topped sales and had an incredible amount of happy customers and great praise from them, and thus praise from the bosses.
It's a Catch-22 situation I think--Salespersons are supposed to help everyone equally, but what the company desires (high sales and many happy customers)...isn't produced by helping everyone equally. Yadidimean?
It's like say...my wife wants me to be a millionaire, but she doesn't want me to be a professional athlete, CEO, successful Hollywood actor, Formula 1 Driver, or Multi-Platinum musician. Catch-22, baby, so the OP should take lessons from this point forward, and realize that he has nothing to complain about.
