Does that mean: a) She didn't know me, therefore she did not give me a discount, or b) She knew me, therefore she did not give me a discount.
Seriously though, when it was a Hein Gerrick shop, they always offered me a 10% discount on everything. The shop is nearly 50 miles from me, but near my best friend, so I would sometimes not buy from local shops, knowingly that I’d be getting up to Braintree within a month, so would make most of my purchases there. At present, Firstline Motorcycles http://www.1stlinemotorcycles.co.uk/ always give me 10% discount, and sometimes Bacon’s aka East London Kawasaki do too.
Not seriously, I still have a “best friend”. Sounds kind of weird saying that, as I’m not in junior school any more.
I’ve never known a motorcycle shop ‘not to offer’ a discount as policy, when in a competitive market. Mick at Essential Rubber just used to sigh all the time, but he got a lot of business from LB and word of mouth - shame the council screwed him over a couple of times.
1) You ride up to London regardless of the starting point.
Nonsense
yourebarred
Nonsense it isn't and without agenda...
Within the UK you always travel up to somewhere that is either of a greater populace or more desirable. Not sure of the origins however the protocol was adopted by the railways with the up train or up line being the one going to London and the down train or down line being the one coming from London. Other examples of travelling up to places regardless of the direction on a properly orientated map include Oxford and Cambridge.
To conclude you can travel up to Oxford or Cambridge from London, or from anywhere else. You can also travel up to London from Oxford or Cambridge, or from anywhere else. One exception might be travelling from Oxford to Cambridge or Cambridge where I believe the correct protocol would be to travel across.
Not to be confused with travelling up north which is something entirely different.
“Up” and “down” refers to physically being in residence or not at Oxford and Cambridge universities, it has nothing to do with the cities.
As for travel, whilst they had been used historically for travel respectively to and from major cities, it was the arrival of the railways which formally adopted and so popularized that usage. But outside of that context, where it is still used to differentiate tracks, the majority of people use the equally valid geographical meaning of them where “up” is north and “down” is south.
You can use either system, there is no official meaning and neither is wrong linguistically, but the former is more likely to cause confusion unless you work on the railways or are a Victorian character.
not exactly a rideout, it’s free advertising enticing people to come spend money at their shop. they don’t do it for benefit of the biker community, they do it for their profits.
not exactly a rideout, it's free advertising enticing people to come spend money at their shop. they don't do it for benefit of the biker community, they do it for their profits.
me_groovy
Yes it is a rideout, no adverts in their post and no mention of having to buy anything. They are doing it for the benefit of the biker community, and yes if someone actually buys
something which they need…they may make a profit. You forget that there are people (not on this forum as the trolls have scared them off) who have probably just
got into biking and would like to ride in a group but don’t where to start. J&S before they moved from Watford used to do something similar, no sales pressure just a ride.
Same with Lloyd Cooper.
So now when Infinity view the responses they will probably think what a load of tossers and never post again !
not exactly a rideout, it's free advertising enticing people to come spend money at their shop. they don't do it for benefit of the biker community, they do it for their profits.
me_groovy
Haha, fucking hell. You're just fishing for reactions now aren't you?
there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of sales and marketing strategy. its good for the shop and its good for the potential buyers.
i’ve personally encouraged Emma (the manager at @ J&S Hanger Lane, see what i did there :D) to host as many events as possible at the shop to promote location, they recently had tea and cake for the macmillan charity there.
its hard enough to compete with online retailers, good on them for trying to bring the buyers back. more shops should do the same and more often.
there's absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of sales and marketing strategy. its good for the shop and its good for the potential buyers.
i’ve personally encouraged Emma (the manager at @ J&S Hanger Lane, see what i did there :D) to host as many events as possible at the shop to promote location, they recently had tea and cake for the macmillan charity there.
its hard enough to compete with online retailers, good on them for trying to bring the buyers back. more shops should do the same and more often.
silveR6
Totally agree. Competition is fierce enough and from recent experience i was better off buying my leather suit from a store than online - i am still £££ out of pocket because getgeared claim not to have received my return :(
