Episode 7 Clip - David's Worst Experience Dealing with a Supplier

In this video from episode 7 of Firing The Man Podcast, David discusses the time he almost got punched in the face when dealing with a supplier. This is a digital short from Firing The Man Podcast Episode: "How to Find a Supplier for Your E-Commerce Business"

David: (28:10)
Yes, sir. I’m going to share a story. It’s probably one of my worst experiences dealing with the supplier, uh, and it ends with almost getting punched in the face. And so this is a good one. So I will, I will, the story starts with my upbringing I grew up in, in Iowa, and there’s a heavy prevalence of Amish people. And if you’re unfamiliar with Amish folks, it, it’s a great group of people. It’s a type of religion. They don’t believe in electricity, they don’t have the internet. It’s a very simple way of life. And I grew up, uh, very close to an Amish community and made friends with a lot of Amish people. Now in each Amish town, there’s a blacksmith, there’s a leather worker. There are a number of different roles in the Amish community and they all work together to get food, to raise barns, to build houses.

David: (29:09)
It’s really, it’s really admirable. I really, I really like the Amish people and, and when I, when I drive by their farms, you know, you see the kids outside working and you know, they’re not sitting on an iPad or playing Xbox. I mean they’re out there working. So I, I, I just want to reinforce the fact that I have had a very good experiences with making friends with the Amish. And so when I decided to start selling physical products online, uh, I knew of a particular leather worker that made awesome products and they were Amish. And so I approached them about sourcing some product from them. And because they don’t have the internet, it is very difficult to send them orders. And so I asked, can I buy you a computer and pay for your internet? And that’ll just be an easy way for me to send you orders. Cause before I was mailing them, I’d put them, I’d put them in an envelope and mail them.

Ken: (30:15)
That’s different than Wechat, right?

David: (30:16)
Oh it’s way different. And so, you know, it caused some logistical problems and it, it seemed like, uh, something that would be reasonable, at least from my standpoint, I thought that would be reasonable. And, and the, the supplier said you need to meet with our Bishop. And so I drove into the, this community. I met with the Bishop, I explained the, the benefits of, of this business. I was going to bring some, some money into the community and how, you know, one obstacle was communication because I live in Missouri and they were in Iowa and how I’d really like to buy a computer just so I can send them orders and this Bishop. I’ve never been yelled at this aggressively before he got in my face, he grabbed my shirt and pulled me in close and I thought, I thought he was going to slug me.

David: (31:09)
I thought he was going to punch me in the face. And he told me, don’t bring, uh, your technology into my community. You’re not welcome here. And he ran me out of that house. And, and I, I re I ran back to my truck. I, I really was. I mean, he really put the fear of God in me and, and I get it, you know, kinda sh shame on me for, uh, shame on me for, for not knowing better than to pose this question. Um, but it was a, it was certainly not a good experience. So I, I walked back to my truck with my tail between my legs and the neighbor to this Amish community. It was a older lady. Oh, she’s probably, she probably in her seventies. And she was out getting her mail. And so I just struck up a conversation with her and she’s Catholic.

David: (32:02)
And so I asked, uh, I asked her, you know, about the neighbors and, and, uh, so what ended up happening was I bought her a computer and I pay for her internet now. And when I need to send the Amish an order, I email her, she prints it off and walks it across the street. And so that’s how I got over that obstacle. But anyway, that’s the story about almost getting punched in the face by a supplier.

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