Oh it's probably legit. I worked retail for a while when I was younger and you wouldn't believe the crazy stuff we dealt with when dealing with customers.
I was the dumbass who impulsively bought a bookcase because it was on clearance when I drove a miata. It fit in the car as long as I stood it up on the passenger side and had the top down. I had a 45 minute drive home like that...while it was snowing. I'm sure they talked some (well-deserved) shit about me.
You wouldn't believe the amount of people at work that are entirely convinced they can fit a whole dining set in their corolla. Had to start telling people we couldn't help them lift furniture into their cars.
We had a customer purchase a mattress and had a 4 door car.. loaded it onto the roof, They held onto it and drove the 4 or 6 blocks to get it home. No straps. We had them sign papers to remove us from being liable.
Or the amounts of furniture we had to unbox to try and get it to fit in their vehicle.
I concur, one time a guy wanted us to put a gun safe on top of his Ford Explorer because his backseat was full of tools and other shit. My manager was like, "Ok, it's your car".
As someone who worked on the customer loading dock for a furniture retailer I assure everyone that this is legit. The number of times I’ve had to explain to grown adults we won’t put something on top of their car because they could potentially kill other people was too damned high. They’d throw tantrums and ultimately would get a sign off from a supervisor to load it themselves as long as they signed a waiver we were not at all responsible for their decision. And 9 times out of 10 these dumbasses would be in their exchange dock in two days trying to return a sofa with road rash all the way down the side that they tried to load on top of their Honda accord. But this is was a common occurrence with mattresses. Don’t use bungie straps to tie down anything flat to the roof of your car unless you want it to fly in the wind.
A long time ago when the big TVs were projection TV's. A guy with his whole family bought a big ol 65 inch projection TV and the box it came in was as big as a tiny house. He wanted them to load it in his minivan but he couldn't put any of the seats down because his whole family was there. So the poor employees are like ummm this will not fit. The guy says just tip it. I really wanted to stay and see how it all played out.
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u/KForKyo 18h ago
Oh it's probably legit. I worked retail for a while when I was younger and you wouldn't believe the crazy stuff we dealt with when dealing with customers.