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can’t speak for shops in other countries but the reality is that a lot of us English are supposedly a “nation of shopkeepers” but slack as fuck when it comes to customer service.

ironically if its some big corporate company the young staff work hard because the bosses are watching over them, but I’ve found myself that businesses run by “hip young people” are fucking shite at actually doing business, they cherry pick their customers, keep random opening hours and also don’t sort out problems quickly such as stock shortages or delivery delays – then they wonder why their business goes bankrupt…

I can’t be fucked with fashion trends, I get most of my clothes from places like Asda and Primark. often the clothes are made in some foreign sweatshop either way, iits just that you pay a big markup in the trendy prices..

if its genuinely made by hippies (and indeed I know a fair few) its true, except that unless you are seriously considering cross-dressing, men’s alternative fashions seem to make you look like a cross between Adam Ant and a Victorian fop/dandy mixed with Shoreditch hipster. At least thats what some of the folk I see in the pubs I drink in (which attracts the alternative crowd) look like…

@pcynopodia – entertheasylum is a real shop, in the North of England. its just that they don’t seem to be able to deal with the web orders properly.

Enter the Asylum. an alternative fashion store, offers sanctuary to youngsters targeted for dressing differently (From The Northern Echo)

nah, what I’m seeing is blokes dressing up in a masculine way but a mixture of dudes from the 1950s to 1970s (i.e what my dad would have worn), 80s new romantic and emo fashions (not as much black as emos though) – Ipswich is overrun with hipsters at the moment…

@pycnopodia 415403 wrote:

General Lightning, Im thinking the owners of the real store have nothing to do with that website, I tried calling the phone number on the website and no one ever picked it up. If this is the case then someone is scamming in the name of entertheasylum 🙁
Or as you say its their legit website but poorly managed.

more likely they just could not be bothered to pick up the phone. I think their staff feel they are “too busy” dealing with the “real” customers in the two shops they run to answer the phone and put on the website as an afterthought and are not giving it the resources it requires. A lot of UK business are like that, especially the “trendy” ones (ironically “boring” ones like computer companies or big retail chains are much more responsive) maybe in your country and other places you have been too the business culture is better…