Store Owner Nicknames

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I was wondering if anyone else has been given a nickname by a store owner?
At one of the pawn shops I hit up on a weekly basis I'm called "Sega Chris" Probably because more than 1/2 of my Sega collection has come from that store.

[Apollo]

I haven't, but now because I posted in here, I'm probably going to get one.

[GrandAmChandler]

I heard a store owner call a customer "Gypsy" once.

[Scrimble]

Nothing too special but a friend and I were always called "The Regulars" since we always stopped by to look for new games and stuff.

[Pantechnicon]

Way back when I first started going to Goodwill on a twice-weekly basis I had earned the nickname "The Commodore Kid" from one of the clerks owing to the volume of Commodore/Amiga stuff I was snatching up.

Nowadays I'm just known as "the guy who wants all the old stuff".

[Gapporin]

At my Goodwill, I'm usually known as "That Movie Guy", and the employees sometimes bring out the new carts of movies and CD's for me whenever I drop by. What's most perplexing is that I've never bought a movie there at all. :hmm:

Today I was called "That Record Guy", so I guess that's a step in the right direction.

[Emuaust]

I was the In2Games guy because I visitedthe local store under that name all the time,
Infact I was that regular I ended up running the show...

[digitalpress]

The nicknames I've given some of my customers are not names I'd share with them :)

[thetoxicone]

not game store related, but I go to the same gas station before work each night and pick up a pibb xtra and pack of turkish golds so at that gas station I'm the pibb/turkish gold guy. One night they were training a new guy and they taught him what to ring up for me before I even get to the counter. I'm not really too much of a regular anywhere else though.

[PentiumMMX]

At a local pawn show, I'm known as the Xbox Guy, because when I get there, I always look at Xbox games first (Because they have craploads of them).

[bangtango]

There is a sports card shop in my town and the owner calls me "Mr. Commons." When they first opened, the shop had a write-up in the local newspaper saying they were paying cash for old sports cards in good condition. Just about that same time, maybe a week or two before, I had actually been wondering what to do with a shitload of worthless Topps, Donruss and Score cards from the 80's which I had in my attic and in my spare bedroom. So I went in there with a huge haul of very common 1980's and 1990's sports cards on five different occasions. Obviously, I kept my best stuff at home in a few small binders or cases. It took the owner upwards of an hour each time I came in just to sort through all of the stuff I was bringing in. The guy would usually skim the boxes that came in with each customer, which gave me the impression he was hoping to get a few mid-tier or top shelf cards on the cheap in a huge bundle. After the first couple of hauls, the owner started to sense that wouldn't happen with my stuff. While he complimented me on the condition of my cards, which were mostly near mint (or mint), he also joked that nearly all of the cards were garbage that was worth no more than 5-10 cents each, maybe a quarter at best. Thing is, he gave me a good amount of cash back because I was bringing in somewhere between about 5,000 cards per trip.

After my fourth trip in, he started joking that he was going to call me "Mr. Commons" because everything I brought in there to sell was extremely common. My final trip in with sports cards to sell, he called me "Mr. Commons" the second I came in the door. That was the last time I sold him anything. I've been in there several times since then, though, and he hasn't forgotten my nickname at all. A couple things to note, every 3-4 visits he reminds me that he still hasn't gotten rid of most of the commons that I brought in to sell. That and he still says the cards I brought in months and months ago were in better shape than 80-90% of his other customers, which he explained are mostly soccer mom's, unemployed burnout guys in their 40's or sloppy kids who come in with boxes full of bent or torn cards looking for a big cash handout.

So I guess I am known as "Mr. Commons" in sports card circles. In local video game circles, I am known as the guy who buys lots of sports games (including 16-bit ones) or the used $2-3 PS2 budget racing titles but no one has dubbed me with an actual nickname for those exploits.

[Howie6925]

Yep, when I was younger and had my sega master system I used to trade in games all the time. The guy at the store used to call me "Mr. Trader".

[Berserker]

See, I thought the theme of this thread was going to be nicknames of store owners...

Around here there was a guy who ran a game shop. His name was Nintendo Bob. All I remember was that the store was really small, the selection wasn't really that good and I'd ALWAYS hear about how Nintendo Bob got robbed. At least 5 times his place got totally ransacked of common NES carts.

I don't know if there still is a shop occupied by Nintendo Bob. But if there is, it's probably still being robbed.

Poor Bob.

[Push Upstairs]

I never had a nickname but owners always said I was the "Genesis man/guy" because my knowledge of Genesis stuff was far more than that of anyone at either of the game stores that used to be here.

[kentuckyfried]

A customer once yelled at me 'Hey, Nintendo!' when he was trying to get my attention on a busy street.
Some people call me Keanu or Neo, because I sort of look like Keanu Reeves (note: I did not ask them to call me this ;) )

[Push Upstairs]

I think you should randomly blurt out either "There is no spoon." or "Wyld Stallions rule!" in public.

[Iron Draggon]

I used to be known as Tiger Man at one store, cause I was almost always wearing a shirt with a tiger on it when I went shopping for games there

[Cornelius]

I used to be known as Tiger Man at one store, cause I was almost always wearing a shirt with a tiger on it when I went shopping for games there
Damn, I was hoping it was because you look like the guy in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
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