I almost always feel comfortable talking to the public. I have been accused of being too honest/blunt. I find this that is more appreciated than it is insulting or bothersome to people. However I have been thrown way off my game twice sense I opened.
I feel very awkward when customers bring in items that aren’t what they think they are. Recently I got two “prints” from a European trip. Before I examined the art the customer tells me how she loves original work. She goes on and on telling about the square, in Paris, where the artist paint and sell their stuff and she loves it. When the items in question were unveiled to me I knew immediately that one wasn’t original and was questionable. One was an oil that happened to be smooth as silk. Obviously a print. The other was a watercolor. However this was made to look original. It had pencil marks outlining the art. It even had some writing on the bottom and several “smudges” around the edges. The problem is that NONE of this was original. Not even the handwriting or the “smudges”.
This always makes me uncomfortable because I would love for them to know what they really have. In certain circumstances I feel like I would embarrass the customer and I don’t want them, even subliminally, to have a negative experience here. So I just shake my head like a spineless worm and say “Ohhh I like that” while thinking “I would give you $4 for it right now!”
I would like to hear some creative ways that you have told people that infact that is more likely a "Pablo Gurerro" that it is "Pablo Piscasso"!
I feel very awkward when customers bring in items that aren’t what they think they are. Recently I got two “prints” from a European trip. Before I examined the art the customer tells me how she loves original work. She goes on and on telling about the square, in Paris, where the artist paint and sell their stuff and she loves it. When the items in question were unveiled to me I knew immediately that one wasn’t original and was questionable. One was an oil that happened to be smooth as silk. Obviously a print. The other was a watercolor. However this was made to look original. It had pencil marks outlining the art. It even had some writing on the bottom and several “smudges” around the edges. The problem is that NONE of this was original. Not even the handwriting or the “smudges”.
This always makes me uncomfortable because I would love for them to know what they really have. In certain circumstances I feel like I would embarrass the customer and I don’t want them, even subliminally, to have a negative experience here. So I just shake my head like a spineless worm and say “Ohhh I like that” while thinking “I would give you $4 for it right now!”
I would like to hear some creative ways that you have told people that infact that is more likely a "Pablo Gurerro" that it is "Pablo Piscasso"!