01/04/2025
Listen up folks....📣📣 - IMPORTANT announcement 🥸
Okay guys and girls (and anybody else in between) let us just cut to the chase here 🧐
( coming) apologies in advance 🙈) 👍
Now, I’ve (personally) been in the Surplus business for over FORTY years 4️⃣0️⃣
And, as a family business for well over 80 years (88 actually but not wishing to be pedantic) 😝 3.
Count ‘em THREE generations selling this crazy stuff 🥷My Dad’s Dad, my Dad, and then me.
Family business – 3, yes, THREE generations – s l o w l y succumbing to the pressures that be😠
Rent. Insurance. Bills. Ducks. Maintenance. Generic ranting….🤬
So, In a nutshell….I left school in the summer of 1984. Thick as 💩, couldn't add up (my maths teacher at the time had wings, was brown, had a couple of legs, and made funny noises. Turned out later to be a rare mathamachicken. I simply just wanted to work for my Dad R.I.P 🙏
However, these last few years have been a total ball ache. Yes, I do have 'balls' 🎱
Customers????
Hughhhh. I love most of them....
But some, OMG 🥸
OM flippin’ Gawd, some just wear me out 🥺
To the back teeth. And beyond 🙈
Talking rubbish, sharing sob stories 😭 about how they had no sun whilst on their last 'summer' holiday. Trying to educate me about stuff I know everything about. Arguing whether a pair of boot laces are black ⚫️or dark grey. Pretending you’re a 'size 36' (cus that's what my jeans say) when we can SEE you are a 41” waist. Not exactly rocket science iz it 🚀Saying the market stall up the road has Para boots for £9.99 (when all the back-linings are all SMASHED up….🥱, asking for 'Parachutes' when you are just needing the f'riggin canopy 🪂
(So sorry, clearly a little venting going on here. DEEP BREATH KEV) 😈
And some days all this mayhem and malarky just makes me feel sick 👨🔬 sick. Sick. Sick. Just like a mosquito who’s caught malaria 🦟
Some of you peeps just stroll on in. You tell us you’ve not been in the shop for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 or even FIFTY flipping’ years 😡
And then you just wear out a bit more of me vinyl lay and then disappear off into the sunset - after extracting all our knowledge without even acknowledging the fact we’ve acknowledged you as you entered the Store in the first place 👀
So, it is with a heavy heart, that after being treated 'like a museum’ 🏛 for years, in fact DECADES attitude with a few of you, we are now going to CHARGE an ENTRY FEE 💰 upon entering the Endy Store at our West Street Exeter EX1 1BA premises.
#1 The entrance fee will set at £5. Cash.
#2 You will have UP TO 10 minutes on the ground floor to peruse our wares.
#3 You can ask up to 5 questions, but ONLY if related to our specific stock detail.
#4 You will NOT be allowed to enter our workshops, stock rooms, pharmacy, WC, or baby changing facilities 🍼
#5 You will NOT bring energy drinks, coffee, or ANY other drink or food-related product into the Store UNLESS it is totally sealed and out of our sight 😡
I fully appreciate that some of you may not like this policy (probably the same bunch who don’t like my 'Sunday Trading' policy) but hey-ho, who cares? 🤷♂️
However, on the plus side, and tending to my more sensitive side, we have, after great deliberation between Paul and meself, decided on a compromise: ⚖️
#1 IF you spend money / buy something you will have the initial entrance fee of £5 credited to your Endy account.
#2 To qualify for the above, you MUST create an account on-line beforehand.
#3 If this is adhered to, future entrance fees to tour our Exeter Store will qualify you for a 10% discount. Note: This is ONLY applicable to the (£5) ‘entrance fee’ – so you’ll pay just £4.50 👍
#4 If you visit during the winter months, we will not invoice you for any of our heat absorbed by you.
#5 Ditto re our PPL / PRS licence for the radio. No invoice will be summoned for any sounds / music / voice-overs indigested.
I sincerely hope you are happy with these decisions.
Need Surplus? We have it Sorted!
P.S Love you all really 🥰🥰🥰🥰
With over 80 years’ experience as a family run business buying and selling army surplus and associ
