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->''"This ain't a library, buy or get lost!"''
-->-- '''Eddy''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "High Heeled Ed" (Though you've probably seen this paraphrased many times before.)

Also often overlapped with the TrollBridge and the AsianStoreOwner. If this is a video game, this can lead to or be the result of ScoldedForNotBuying; this trope [[SuperTrope is always an example of that,]] but not always vice-versa. Compare GetOut.

* ''Series/That70sShow'': Hyde is lounging in the group's normal hangout spot, though he didn't actually order anything yet. The counterman [[note]]played by the late Creator/MitchHedberg[[/note]] gives us this:
--> '''Frank:''' Hey, you - buy something, or get out. I have a big wedding coming in.\\
'''Steven Hyde:''' Frank, you don't have a big wedding coming in.\\
'''Frank:''' Oh, did I say I have a big wedding? What I meant to say was: Buy something, or get out!

* ''WesternAnimation/LupoTheButcher'' has a sign in the background that says: "THIS NO LIBARY BUY OR GET OUT." As Danny Antonucci made both this short and ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the page quote is actually a reference to this.

** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown ''Putting Your Hoof Down'']], the stall vendors [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts keep raising the prices of the things Fluttershy is looking for]], mostly because of Fluttershy's poor negotiation skills, and refuse to go any lower for her each time they do so.

** Even the very first ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' had this, where the hidden merchants will greet Link by shouting "BUY SOMETHING, WILL YA!"

* Boo in ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'' will shoo the player away as a bother if they don't have enough coins, or tell them they'll "regret it" if they decline his help. Most other times in the series, if characters will bring up you don't have enough coins they'll just politely tell you to save up and to visit them again when you do.

* Marcus from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' is a Subversion as despite his [[TheScrooge Scrooge tendencies]], he and his vending machines throughout Pandora greet the player enthusiastically and tells them to take their time. Though it gets DoubleSubverted as he gets pissed off if you browse and don't buy anything.

* Many of the shopkeepers in ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'' will call you out if you don't buy anything. For example, drugstore employees proclaim that the player has hurt their feelings by not purchasing any items. The shop music is even titled "Buy Somethin' Will Ya!"

* ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' a.k.a ''The Legend of the Mystical Ninja'': In the SNES game the owner of of the restaurant will get comically mad if you refuse to buy something to eat. The shop's theme is actually called ''Buy Something or Get Out!''

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing2001'': [[CulturalTranslation (At least in the English version)]] your villagers will get mad at the drop of a hat if you refuse to trade or buy things with them. Averted with the visitors and town's ''actual'' shopkeepers who are quite generous. Also averted in later installments, where the animal's WorldOfJerkass tendencies were toned down if not outright removed; they might get shocked or disappointed, but not as disproportionally angry like they did in the first game.

-->'''Morshu:''' Sorry Link, I can't ''give'' credit. Come back when you're a little...hmm...''richer''!

-->'''Kai:''' Ninja? Huh, you're a long way from finding a Ninja in these parts, old man. And the shop is called "Four Weapons," not "For Browsing." Either buy something or go pedal your insults somewhere else!

-->'''Bloo:''' I have to by some- I ALREADY BOUGHT SOMETHING! Remember earlier, enormous beverage, little blue blob? That was me.\\

** {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' by Bomb-Master Cannon and his Bomb Shop. Not only is he gleefully an asshole to you if you can't afford his bombs, but he also ''deliberately'' prices his bombs so high (at around 10,000 rupees a pop) so that nobody can afford them and he can therefore be an asshole to them. Real class act. [[spoiler:He eventually tries this on [[BullyingTheDragon Tetra and her pirates]] so they rough him up, tie him up, and just steal the bombs. After this he lightens up and begins selling them at affordable prices]].

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda:

-->'''Morshu:''' Sorry Link, but I don't give out credit. Come back when you're a little...hmm...''richer''!

* At one point in VideoGame/PaperMario the greedy Kent C. Koopa stands in the road between between Toad Town and Koopa Village, and refuses to move with the only options being you pay a hefty toll of 100 coins, or be forced to find another way around [[TakeAThirdOption (or fight him)]], otherwise he tells Mario and Co to "take off". Keep in mind this is the same bridge that the characters, and player, have walked through many times before for free.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDI Link: The Faces of Evil]]'' has shopkeep Morshu invoke the trope if you don't have enough funds:

* Taken UpToEleven in the ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' gamebook series. If you don?t buy anything from the dark elf caravan, the elves ''crucify'' you and leave you for dead.
* In ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' ("Be Still My Heart - The Bartender's Tale" by David Bischoff) it's stated that the reason Wuher's boss hates droids is because, since they essentially don't drink, they'll just taking up space that could be used for paying customers.

* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' by Bomb-Master Cannon and his Bomb Shop. Not only is he gleefully an asshole to you if you can't afford his bombs, but he also ''deliberately'' prices his bombs so high (at around 10,000 rupees a pop) so that nobody can afford them and he can therefore be an asshole to them. Real class act. [[spoiler:He eventually tries this on [[BullyingTheDragon Tetra and her pirates]] so they rough him up, tie him up, and just steal the bombs. After this he lightens up and begins selling them at affordable prices]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', this trope is [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated.]] Beedle constantly pedals to power his flying shop, which is accessed by ringing a bell and then climbing a ladder. If one were to leave his shop without buying anything, [[ScoldedForNotBuying not only does he call them out]] for forcing him to put in extra leg power for nothing, he [[DisproportionateRetribution drops them out a trap door]].
* Even the very first ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' had this, where the hidden merchants will greet Link by shouting "BUY SOMETHING, WILL YA!"

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' Wakko has a PottyEmergency and looks for just about ''anywhere'' to do his business with no luck, one of them is a store that won't let him use their restroom because it's for paying customers only. It's safe to assume every other store he tried could be for the same reason.

-->'''[[FishOutOfTemporalWater Marty:]]''' Gimme a Tab.
-->'''Lou:''' A tab? I can't give ya a tab unless you order something.
-->'''Marty:''' Right. Give me a Pepsi 'Free'.
-->'''Lou''': If you want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna to pay for it!

--> '''Frank:''' Hey, you - buy something, or get out. I have a big wedding coming in.
-->'''Steven Hyde:''' Frank, you don't have a big wedding coming in.
-->'''Frank:''' Oh, did I say I have a big wedding? What I meant to say was: Buy something, or get out!

Typically, video games aren't going to haggle with you if you don't have the cash to get what you need or want. So in a way, ''every video game with a store system has the potential to be this trope'', do to the way games are coded. Though most computers or [=NPC=]s aren't going to kick you out for taking too long to shop either, so at the same time it isn't. Most examples below should be more explicit, Subversions, or Lampshaded.

* ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' a.k.a ''The Legend of the Mystical Ninja'': In the SNES game The owner of of the restaurant will get comically mad if you refuse to buy something to eat. The shop's theme is actually called ''Buy Something or Get Out!''

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', this trope is [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated.]] Beedle owns a flying shop which has him peddling to keep it flying which is accessed by ringing a bell and then climbing a ladder. If one were to leave his shop without buying anything, [[ScoldedForNotBuying not only does he call them out]] for forcing him to put in extra leg power for nothing, he [[DisproportionateRetribution drops them out a trap door]].

-->'''Bloo:''' I have to by some- I ALREADY BOUGHT SOMETHING! Remember earlier, enormous beverage, little blue blob? That was me.
--> Clerk: Uh, then you left the store, meaning that transaction was completed. And, um, our bathroom is for paying customers only.

--> '''Mr. Krabs:''' Now, are you gonna buy something or just stand there 'cause there's a standing fee.

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Alternative Titles: '''Buy Or Get Out'''

--> '''[[FishOutOfTemporalWater Marty:]]''' All right, just give me a Pepsi 'Free'.
--> '''Lou''': If you want a Pepsi, pal, you've gonna to pay for it!

Typically, video games aren't going to haggle with you if you don't have the cash to get what you need or want. So in a way, ''every video game with a store system has the potential to be this trope'', do to the way games are coded. Though most computers or NPCs aren't going to kick you out for taking too long to shop either, so at the same time it isn't. Most examples below should be more explicit, Subversions, or Lampshaded.

* In Creator/RoaldDahl 's autobiography ''Boy'', he describes the grumpy sweet shop owner Mrs Pratchett, who would say "I don't want you in here just to look around! Either you ''forks'' out, or you ''gets'' out!"

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Peggy enters a beauty pageant contest in hopes of winning a new truck. She goes to a car dealership and test-drives a truck like the one she's hoping to win. While Peggy drives, the salesman asks how he can get her business. Peggy tells him she's not planning to buy it, but to win it from the beauty pageant contest. The salesman dejectedly says "Test-drive's over".* ''WesternAnimation/LupoTheButcher'' has a sign in the background that says: "THIS NO LIBARY BUY OR GET OUT." As Danny Antonucci made both this short and ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the page quote is actually a reference to this.

Also often overlapped with the TrollBridge trope and, unfortunately, the AsianStoreOwner [[note]][[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Which will of course not be given any more detail.]][[/note]]. If this is a video game, this can lead to or be the result of ScoldedForNotBuying; this trope [[SuperTrope is always an example of that,]] but not always vice-versa. Compare GetOut.

* Used in one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' cutaway where an Asian vendor does stand-up at the Apollo, and moans about "two black guys" loitering in his store and suspecting them of stealing. Being an African American audience, this doesn't go over well. In turn he yells at the whole audience to stay out of his store.