I've never had the experience of someone in a busi...

I've never had the experience of someone in a business trying NOT to sell me something. I damaged an area on my deck and needed to replace 2 pieces of decking. The manufacturer of the original product is no longer in business so I need to find something that matched - or at least was close. I had a scrap of the original planking and went to the store. First I was told the width was wrong. If it was the difference was 1/16 of an inch or less. Then it was too thick (wrong again). Finally the salesman suggested that a particular colour (medium brown) would match my sample (sand color). There was a sample in the display which was almost an exact match for my sample. Finally I had to tell the salesman that I was going to take such and such a product in such and such a colour and how much. If I hadn't been desperate, I would have walked out the door and gone elsewhere.