At my rural LBS yesterday. I don't normally use it because they are so overpriced, and going back to biking some years ago I bought a bike from them, later to discover it was 25% more expensive than anywhere else. But, with a biking weekend here, and new tyres delayed in the post, I had no option. The two staff were busy , so I went over to the tyre selection and started hooking out rubber. Within seconds I was being 'helped' by a guy whose first assumption was that I don't know one end of a bike from the other and tried to sell me MTB tyres with a 2.4 width which wouldn't fit my bike. I shooed him off and bought a couple of the cheapest 1.94 MTB tyres they had, to escape.

A Specialised road bike caught my eye, and #1 salesman pounced on me while I looked, saying he could adjust it to fit me, and I could have a test ride, and I looked like I would need a shorter stem, just wouldn't leave me alone to think, or to look at other bikes. Sho' nough, when I got home, I'd paid twice the internet price for the tyres, and the Specialised road bike I looked over was 15% marked up over High St. shops. Pressure selling and a price gouge? I won't be going back.

Buyer beware: novices pay more in some LBS's. Over-attentive sales staff can equal coercion.