...lookers sometimes turn into buyers. If there was a way to tell who or when you wouldn't have to put up with it; problem is, there is no way to know.
...he recalled a story for me of a customer who came in wearing dirty overalls and no shirt. He mentioned the man was also quite dirty as though he had just finished work on a farm. The shop owner told me how even though the man did not look especially well off he bought several high end rifles with top notch glass on them.
Case in point; I was in a guitar shop many years ago when a fellow in dirty clothes and pretty disheveled looking came in and started looking at a particularly nice and rather expensive Gibson acoustic. The guy didn't really play very well, and after quite a while the clerk said, "Why don't you take that with you?" "Think I will," he said, and pulled out a wad of bills from his shirt pocket. He paid cash and walked out the door with it.
