{"id":18307,"date":"2012-12-27T13:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18307"},"modified":"2012-12-27T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:38:45","slug":"good-customers-and-bad-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/good-customers-and-bad-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Customers and Bad Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to share some insane emails &#8212; verbatim &#8212; from a would-be customer but I decided to spare you normal people the foolishness. (But if any crazy people happen to be reading this, make a note to yourselves: I don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to do any custom work that I don&#8217;t want to, and if you start an inquiry with &#8220;This is bull!&#8221; and then ask me about &#8220;co$t,&#8221; I&#8217;m not going to do a damn thing. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a celebrity or a billionaire. You&#8217;re still not worth it.)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, let&#8217;s visit gorgeous blogger Susan Partlan, who got my one-of-a-kind Barbara necklace &#8212; in black diamonds and quartz &#8212; for the holidays and wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylemadebyhand.com\/2012\/12\/26\/bejewelled-on-boxing-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">a very lovely and funny post about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18308\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18308 \" alt=\"Barbara_Necklace_Zoom80__26761_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Barbara_Necklace_Zoom80__26761_std.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Barbara_Necklace_Zoom80__26761_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Barbara_Necklace_Zoom80__26761_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Barbara_Necklace_Zoom80__26761_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Barbara necklace. Click the image to read Susan&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>So happy that you&#8217;re enjoying the necklace, Susan! And we picked the right chain length, too.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: A few peeps have sent me some of their outrageous bad-customer stories. Send yours to wbjewelry at hotmail dot com and I&#8217;ll do a big post on the wide range of bad customer behavior! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to share some insane emails &#8212; verbatim &#8212; from a would-be customer but I decided to spare you normal people the foolishness. (But if any crazy people happen to be reading this, make a note to yourselves: I don&#8217;t have to do any custom work that I don&#8217;t want to, and if&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/good-customers-and-bad-customers\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,43,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-gorgeous-clients","9":"category-my-designs","10":"category-necklaces","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18334,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions\/18334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}