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Somewhat related story.
There is a shop called The Natural World in Trentham Shopping Village which sells some telescopes and stuff. They have literally hundreds of pairs of National Geographic 36-108*70 binocs, piled up on the floor and stacked around he shelf tops.
Now all the reviews I've seen on the interwebs basically say they are a bit rubbish, but I thought I'd have a look through when I went in about 6 months ago. They were out on a shelf like they normally are so I picked them up, pulled the caps off, had a look through and indeed it was like looking through two biro tubes.
As soon as I got them to my eyes, however, the guy running the tills pounced on me, said 'Can I help you with anything sir?' whilst simultaneously pulling them out of my hands, putting the caps back on and replacing them on the shelf. Hmmm....
I went in again last week, and lo and behold there was a pair mounted on a tripod with the telescopes. I'll have another look I thought, I might have been mistaken. Same guy on the tills so I waited until he was dealing with someone else and lifted the tripod out, took the caps off and TAPE ON THE EYEPIECES!!!
In that instant he's aound the till like a shot. 'Can I help you with that sir?' while pulling the tripod out of my hand and shoving it back into the display.
They REALLY don't want you looking through these things.
There is a shop called The Natural World in Trentham Shopping Village which sells some telescopes and stuff. They have literally hundreds of pairs of National Geographic 36-108*70 binocs, piled up on the floor and stacked around he shelf tops.
Now all the reviews I've seen on the interwebs basically say they are a bit rubbish, but I thought I'd have a look through when I went in about 6 months ago. They were out on a shelf like they normally are so I picked them up, pulled the caps off, had a look through and indeed it was like looking through two biro tubes.
As soon as I got them to my eyes, however, the guy running the tills pounced on me, said 'Can I help you with anything sir?' whilst simultaneously pulling them out of my hands, putting the caps back on and replacing them on the shelf. Hmmm....
I went in again last week, and lo and behold there was a pair mounted on a tripod with the telescopes. I'll have another look I thought, I might have been mistaken. Same guy on the tills so I waited until he was dealing with someone else and lifted the tripod out, took the caps off and TAPE ON THE EYEPIECES!!!
In that instant he's aound the till like a shot. 'Can I help you with that sir?' while pulling the tripod out of my hand and shoving it back into the display.
They REALLY don't want you looking through these things.
