Morals and this industry

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I'm far from an expert, but here's my take on it.

Business & Personal are seperate, there's a reason they tell you to leave your "life" behind you when you walk into work.

Good business is being honest with the customer if it means the customer will earn you money --Either right then, or in the future either themselves or by word of mouth. You might not see the payoff immediately but depending on how it all unfolded you may see it later on down the road when people come to you that say they were referred by that individual. This is applicable mostly in scenarios where you don't offer the service/product the customer is looking for. Point is, that either way you get business. Getting business & clients, is good business.

Bad business is when you are honest to the point of simply losing out on business, or when you're dishonest to the point that word gets out that you just screw people over.

I think it also depends on the quality of the product/service that you're offering, whether or not ripping idiots off is a risk worth taking. There are times when I've paid more for something, later found out I could've gotten it (or something similar) much cheaper, but I've been so pleased with the end product/result/whatever, that I have simply concluded that you get what you pay for. (maybe that makes me one of the idiots that gets ripped off, who knows)

Oftentimes "nice" doesn't equal "good" is what I've found out recently. I'll use a rather frivolous example I suppose, but a while ago I decided to get a gel nail set. I phoned around town because I prefer to "shop around" rather than simply walk blindly into any store for something like that. I chatted with the people at each place for a few minutes, and finally settled on one where the girl was really nice, really friendly, really helpful, answered all my questions, seems they knew what they were doing. The nails turned out awful. Like, truly truly terrible. It was unfortunately my first time getting them done, and even more unfortunately I'm not very good at kicking up a fuss in person when in public, so I simply kept my mouth shut, figured "I don't know a thing about fake nails" and finally after a week of misery, decided to go into the place I'd originally thought of (but hadn't decided to go to, because of how abrupt & dismissive they'd been on the phone). By the time I went in there, I just wanted the things off my fingers. They looked at them & then asked if I wanted them fixed. It was the same price either way, so I opted to take a 2nd chance & go for the fix rather than the removal. They turned out gorgeous the 2nd time around.

Ryan if you were able to provide the product or service for those supposed idiots, and they were willing to pay the price, you should've. Some people are idiots who don't know any better, some may simply have had far too much money & simply not given a shit but if these "idiots" took their money and their business elsewhere, then that's really bad business IMO. We rarely pay the actual value of anything we buy, stores would never profit & doors would close rather quickly if they sold stuff at cost (or at what their "actual" value may be)