Have you ever been reluctant to business with an establishment because of it's name ?
Not because you believe they do not provide a good service but because of the name they chose.
My grandparents wanted for me to do business with their car insurer which they’ve done business for the last 20 years “Cash Register Insurance” but I would feel silly telling people my car insurer is “Cash Register” instead of Allstate or Progressive.
There is “Aladdin Bail Bonds” If I ever needed a bail bondsman I could never use them as I feel,I would be laughed at through the court proceedings every time I mentioned my bail bonds Co.
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cash register may give somebody a discount for your business, If they have reliable service, and their rates are fair, who cares about the name?
Now there are some businesses that dont sound so right, but i would respect your gramps and check it out.
Do you wear designer jeans too? They are the same as levis
Yes – often. The name indicates a lot about the proprietors. If that indication is of possible un-professionalism it makes me wary.
I felt that way when my company decided to accept a contract bid from “RapeCo”.
Yes. My favorite hair salon has changed its name to Confessional. Really. I am considering never going back there.
@Jeruba Really. I am considering never going back there.
Why – it is brilliant. When you think of the dialogue that is common in a salon.
Lol I was about to say, there are a few adult oriented stores I refuse to pay with anything but cash.
@Jeruba Did you have to kneel in a tiny cubicle while you had your nails done ??
@DarkScribe, because you want it to be about feeling good and looking good and not about shame, guilt, remorse, and penance. The intimacies that may arise while your regular stylist is doing your hair are a byproduct and benefit but not what you go in for. There is nothing about kneeling to beg forgiveness for sins that has anything to do with being pampered and beautified. It is so revolting to me that I told them I wasn’t sure I could ever make myself go back.
@Jeruba because you want it to be about feeling good and looking good and not about shame,
Maybe I don’t take life as seriously as some – but I truly love it – it is so apt.
But I can understand your reluctance – I don’ have to attend “confession” I cut my own hair with a pair of number four clippers every week or two.
When I was at University (several times – I tend to change my mind about careers) I did a number of things to pay my way – working bar and driving taxis the most common. Both of those occupations can be regarded as “confessional” in nature.
I don’t want a service that I pay for in order to keep my hair nice to shove a religious idea—whether Catholic or any other—in my face. It’s irrelevant and has a completely inappropriate connotation. I’d be equally put off if it called itself Baptism or Circumcision or Hijab.
There are a few in my area that made me think “WTF?”
A couple are:
Pat R. Cox Law Firm. Seriously? Drop the “R” and go by Patrick. Come on.
Yung Ho Tae Kwon Do Yes. Absolutely no other Korean phrase would have been a better choice.
@Seek_Kolinahr Well,maybe if you did, you’d get a discount,I’ll be willing to snap his retainer,though !
& I would rather get a Yung Ho than and Ol’ one !!
There is a restaurant supplier in Orlando:The Lon Dong Co.
There was a business under the West Seattle Bridge for awhile
called the Buffalo Sanitary Wipes Co. – and truthfully, if I’d ever needed sanitary wipes for my buffalo, I’d have gone there faithfully.
@Jeruba I don’t want a service that I pay for in order to keep my hair nice to shove a religious idea—
We are on a different track. I regarded it as sacrilegious. A play on the similarity of the confessional and the willingness with which people sometimes open up to someone like a hairdresser – (or taxi driver or barman. )
I usually stay away from businesses with cutesy names; they aggravate me somehow.
Yes, I would never go into a ‘Hooters’.
@YARNLADY That’s because of it’s mascot the Owl !!
I refuse to frequent Mike Hunt’s Bar And Grill…
Yeh, there’s an insurance company here in the UK called ‘Swinton’. I could never use them as it’s too close to the word, Swindle.
You can’t make me eat at “Dirty Dicks”.
@JeffVader I believe they specialize on the British dish “Spotted Dick”
* I guess that’s what happens when you don’t clean it !!
@JeffVader -Yes.It’s on the outer banks of North Carolina.
This weekend I passed a restaurant called “The Trough”....really? I’ll keep driving.
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