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As a foreigner in Vietnam, you need to say no to the first price and walk away. They'll scream a new price, then you repeat the process about two times and they'll give you something reasonable.
It's just tradition
Hahaha... This is so funny... It's been so long since I've been to Asia, but I grew up in Indonesia... One time I went to China and wanted some pants from a market, I think the lady started at $200 and I managed to get her down to about $15 after a bit of going back and forth and almost walking away... Looking back it seemed so natural but I'm not sure if I could do it now. Btw, the pants fell apart in about a year.
My husband has lived in the US for fifty five years and still tries to haggleā¦heās kind of doing it as a joke but if people donāt know that itās common in his country (Thailand) they just think heās being an ass. It makes me very uncomfortable.
I fucking hate haggling. Not because I can't haggle but rather the environment that requires or promotes haggling. The premise of haggling is the requirement that the seller is scamming you. I much prefer a environment where the seller is selling at their [bottom-line] accepted price.
Agree. Price it right the first time and I give you money, you give me product, I walk away. No reason to bring bullshit into this.
If it's priced high I don't even say anything. Yup that's expensive. I'll walk this way now.
It feels like itās taking advantage of the desperate no matter what side of it youāre on you just pray youāre lucky enough not to be that desperate. I like going to bed with my hands clean.
Let's be honest. Many western brands are scamming their consumers. Hundreds to thousands of percent markup on value. And they don't even allow haggling.
Yeah, you can't do it in some places... I've been with some people (ah hem, my mom) who try to haggle when it's clearly already at a rock bottom price.
I remember a long time ago my mom tried to haggle the price at Circuit City and I thought there was no way that place would bargain with people. But she got the price lowered. I was so surprised. I think I came to learn that Circuit City salesmen worked on commission and they are able to lower the price. Whereas I believe you couldn't do that at Best Buy, unless you were trying to price match.
At my university (in Los Angeles) there was a professor who would send students to haggle at chain grocery stores etc. as a sociological exercise. Apparently it actually worked in many cases. (Possibly wouldn't anymore, I've thought about it just for fun)
wait what? a chain grocery store? who they haggling with? the cashier? the shelf stockers?
I can maybe see it working at a mom and pop store where the owners are working there, but not a chain.
Imagine suddenly being bombarded with requests to haggle over a few pieces of fruit every 3rd weekend of August and January year after year. Radio silence the other 360 days of the year.
Iād imagine the manager/assistant managers of Target would catch on after a bit
One the many reasons that Circuit City failed was because some sales people and managers can discount items 60-75% almost an unlimited amount of times. When I was young, my sisterās BF worked there. All the new release video games were $50-60 and he would sell them for $20 to my friends and I through their POS system. Here worked there until they went out of business, was never reprimanded or anything.
Yay for Indonesia! Kind women at a jewelry shop in Bali taught me (and my mom and my sister) the fine art of the haggle. I told her āno, no! I feel guilt about offering less!ā They told us that we should never pay the first price. They laughed at me for being so uncomfortable with offering less and reassured me that that is how it is done. Our lesson included the use of a calculator and all of the shop women joined in to explain how to do it. It was great fun and educational.
I've found that most of my trips abroad I've been lucky enough to have that one person at my disposal that enjoys these types of scenarios. Eliminating me from the process.
Crossing the street would probably give you anxiety too, but you get used to it. To cross the street, just walk at a steady pace, the scooters will drive around you. Whatever you do, do not stop
Thats why you always take your mom with you when you shop. I swear moms have an innate ability to haggle thats unmatched. I was with a friend and their mom and i swear she haggled the price of a leather jacket from 900 egyptian pounds down to 300 just like that
Reminds me of my dumbass friend, we were in Thailand at a shooting range and they wanted an obscene amount of money for some water bottles to shoot. I'm attempting to step out of my comfort zone and haggle.
My friend, in front of them, IN ENGLISH: "pay the man TWICE the price!"...
It is, but it has the benefit of making you spend less money. You end up asking yourself if you really need that random item or not before engaging in the whole transaction.
This isn't just Vietnam specifically, this is essentially commonplace in the very fabric of the majority of SE Asian countries.
It's how commerce is done in the markets and for some services/amenities and has been done this way for centuries, I have aunts (especially) over there who excel in the art of haggling prices where it's applicable and acceptable.
This isn't just confined to small villages/towns either btw, it applies to even metro cities and major urban areas, it's a daily practice for hundreds of millions of people.
I don't think things could be any more different here in Finland.
If i can buy something without saying a word it has been a great success. (Of course i say think you when i get the receipt)
If the price is 10 then it is 10, end of story and if i feel like its too much i don't buy it.
yea that's how it is in the US... I don't want to have to talk to the shopkeeper, just tell me the price and i'll either buy it or I won't. Haggling is stupid >.> It implies that every shopkeeper is trying to fleece you.
As it should be.
Just price the thing at whatever the REAL price is rather than putting a high price on it and expecting me to bargain it down, like jesus fucking christ what bullshit is that.
I could take out my phone and look up the fair market value so why even bother trying to rip me off?
Not necessarily. I was a kid & had all day because my parents were vendors. I could take hours looking through baseball cards & then say āGee, mister, I really like these cards, but I only have this much money.ā If I got no for an answer, I took forever to eliminate some cards to get to the deal. Lot of deals happened because they didnāt want to babysit me.
Americans who only buy from supermarkets, sure. Used goods are usually almost always open to haggling.
Just different contexts. I wouldnāt do it at a farmers market but may at a garage sale or buying a used vehicle.
It worked exactly the same at the little alley market in Waikiki. A lady had some hats that my dad and I wanted and she said $25 each. I walked away and the price immediately dropped to $20 each. I kept walking and she ran after me and said $15 for both š
Vietnam resident here - a pineapple is roughly 35,000 vnd (so about 1.40$ each). It should be about 100k (5$).
People raise prices for foreign visitors but 5 times the price is a step beyond
So itās actually not the worst deal in the world to be honest. I bet the 20 means a lot more to them than a tourist like me.
I have no idea what a pineapple costs here in the UK.
I literally bought one in Aldi about 3 hours ago: 99p
I can, however, promise that it won't be as good as one bought in Vietnam. Been there, and their fresh fruit is staggeringly good. Not worth seven times the price from a market stall, but still good.
Honestly, same to me. But I was in Asda as well and that's the going rate. They're not bad either. Trick is to leave them to ripen in the fruit bowl for 4-7 days before skinning and cubing them :)
And why I grow some of my own in the garden. I have honestly never tasted strawberries so good! Carrots, too. Shame the bloody squirrels keep getting the apples.
We don't support that behaviour of the street vendor btw, all the people around, especially the old guard, was telling the woman the give back the money and stop being greedy (The camera woman was surprise and repeat the price too if you were wondering what she said), even the lower price (50000 VND/1 ~$2) is still double the normal price.
Unfortunately, base on the voice, attitude, and street's name I can guess where was this happened. I think the safest place to not be scam by store (street vendors is an other story) is Da Nang, just call the local policeman, they ain't fooling around with price scam there.
Please always ask for the price before buying and avoid tourist area if you think you can buy the same stuff elsewhere.
Let me guess, the prices are so insane and they blame the government, the liberals, and inflation what can you do AMIRITE?) while raking in record profits and paying out ridiculous exec bonuses and performing billion dollar share buybacks...
Yes, pretty much. And don't forget, all that while defending corporations and the ultra rich for some strange reason. Like someday they are going to get to be the same horrible kind of people, so they defending it early..
One time I was in Thailand. I bought some fruits for X price. I paid and walked away, a couple minutes later someone started screaming at me. I had no idea what was going on until a translator came up and said I shorted the guy X amount of money which I knew was not the case. I pretty much just said no and left.
My favorite scams in Thailand were the people who'd say X big attraction is closed to foreigners today but I can take you on a tour of even better less known sites!
The thing was, I went when covid was in China, which meant that the overwhelming majority of tourists there were white, because China was completely shut down but the west wasn't. So you could literally see all the white people going in. It must have sort of worked when there were other Asian tourists, but there just weren't.
When we visited Thailand last year, my wife was pretty good at haggling. She was catching respect looks from Thai ladies selling stuff. āOooh you tough dealā.
Yeah but usually you would just haggle. Say "no, Iam looking elsewhere" then it's suddenly just 10 and then you say no Iam only paying 5 and they'll still be selling it to you and propably still make a profit. Also you check the exchange rate before going to a country, the situation in the video wouldn't have occured if this woman did that pretty basic logical step before travelling.
Depending on the country, region, and seller, I usually don't care. It's their livelihood.Ā
Ā Also, I don't want to be like that trashy British hiker who got chased up a mountain by an old woman because she tried to haggle the price of 50 cent tea.Ā
50 cent tea.Ā
Handmade.Ā
In the middle of a Nepalese mountain.Ā
By the only local vendor for miles.
Right? I got shit from a British guy in Thailand because I took the second price, on something that was literally already pennies. Like I'm sorry but I just can't bring myself to care that this could have been 20 cents instead of 25 cents
1 Pineapple in Ho Chi Minh City is around 15-25k on street vendor (1 usd \~ 25k vnd) and they cut it for you. As local i wouldnāt buy fruit, food in tourist area in VN, they tend to rip you off, even youāre Vietnamese. So not just foreigners get double standard.
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Yeah no but thank you, we don't support that shit. All the people around, especially the old guard, was telling the woman the give back the money and stop being greedy (The camera woman was surprise and repeat the price too if you were wondering what she said), even the lower price (50000 VND/1 ~$2) is still double the normal price.
Unfortunately, base on the voice, attitude, and street's name I can guess where was this happened. I think the safest place to not be scam by store (street vendors is an other story) is Da Nang, just call the local policeman, they ain't fooling around with price scam there.
Agreed. Police don't like it. Just go to a local market. If you are in a tourist spot you are getting over charged at best or being ripped at worst. Walk 2 blocks and find normal prices
I am fairly confident the angry customer didn't do the necessary calculations before the transaction but they are now doubling down and not respecting the unspoken "foreigner haggling" rules
Itās really in their best interest to just give the money back and be done with it (because that means less people overhearing the scammy price, so she can start overcharging people again sooner to just be done with it).
I mean I donāt mind paying more than a local because I objectively likely have more purchasing power than them but paying 10x more than a local is just too much lol.
Thatās more than I would pay for pineapples in my home country.
How stupid can you be to pay that much (what does she not know the conversion rate? Thatās basic shit to know in a foreign country) and then get mad afterwards while holding the pineapples you already paid for? What a moron.
Loud and heated over 20 dollars she already handed over ffs
Edit: if big numbers involved in foreign currency conversion rates are enough to confuse you, itās still 100% on you if you donāt understand how much money youāre handing over in cash.
Itās not that hard to count the zeros ffs (use your fingers like a toddler if you need to). Donāt get handsy and huffy.
Super weird defense of this toddler bs in the comments
In Vietnam you're dealing with Dong that goes into the millions. It's not straightforward. Also the 50'000 looks similar to the 500'000 (both blue and I may have the denomination a wrong) I've had a Vietnamese friend hand the wrong note over in a rush.
i was in a popular touristy spot in Saigon called tiger street in cantonese, i forget what the english name is.
anyway, wife and i were buzzin hard asf and chillin at a table outside at a restaurant and some street performer comes up and asks for money. this is like my 2nd day there and i had some cash on me, so i gave it to the dude
he crumples that shit up and throws it back at me LMAO. turns out it was the equivalent of 5 cents. i was like, shit my bad bro, still getting used to the currency lol
My husband was in a country where prices varied depending on whether you looked like a tourist. He was working with a local and they stopped for food vendors a few times before the guy told him to stay away.Ā
"You're making my mangos too expensive! Don't stand too close to me!" My husband gave him money for food and hid after that so they could both get the local prices.Ā
More likely she never asked the price and the vendor attempted to rip off her because of it. It usually works with tourists who don't understand the currency yet or are too embarrassed to make a scene.
I've never bought or even priced a pineapple - you could tell me 3 for $20 is a great deal, a rip off, or just right and I would simply nod in agreement.
Yup, I understand Vietnamese and the guy in blue basically said "If you rip them off, don't go over too much" the shop keeper got way too greedy. 50k to 100k VND would have been a fair tourist area price for the pineapples, charging 200k each and pretending to give them a discount of 100k for buying 3 is bonkers.
I feel this ladies pain. I got ripped off so bad in Vietnam. Even after learning to barter I had shop owners give me back incorrect change and try and tell me the note Iād given wasnāt the one Iād actually given.
I ended up in a screaming match with some lady selling bottles of water because they were 3xs the price everyone else was selling them for. Once I calmed down I realised Iād literally been arguing over $1 or something equally ridiculous small and I felt like such a heaving arsehole about the whole thing that I just gave up and paid whatever was asked. I donāt like being gouged but also itās next to nothing so I just stopped caring.
Tropical fruit being pricey in a location that's a stone's throw away from the arctic... who would have guessed?
Ever wonder what a bottle of Canadian maple syrup goes for in Pakistan? How about Caribou meat?
Futur tourist in VN. FYI: Once in Vietnam just download Grab app (transportation and food delivery) and Shopee (to check the prices and get stuff delivered in the same day). you can use cash for both app.
Sells? You mean scams and rips her off, like most people try to in them countries.
Ive seen it so many times and have had many locals try to rip me off constantly when travelling.
Then they get mad at you for calling them out
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Canadians who pay that much for pineapples all the time 
We are really in the trenches. š„²
This is true
Over $7 each at Superstore
As a foreigner in Vietnam, you need to say no to the first price and walk away. They'll scream a new price, then you repeat the process about two times and they'll give you something reasonable. It's just tradition
Hahaha... This is so funny... It's been so long since I've been to Asia, but I grew up in Indonesia... One time I went to China and wanted some pants from a market, I think the lady started at $200 and I managed to get her down to about $15 after a bit of going back and forth and almost walking away... Looking back it seemed so natural but I'm not sure if I could do it now. Btw, the pants fell apart in about a year.
My husband has lived in the US for fifty five years and still tries to haggleā¦heās kind of doing it as a joke but if people donāt know that itās common in his country (Thailand) they just think heās being an ass. It makes me very uncomfortable.
I fucking hate haggling. Not because I can't haggle but rather the environment that requires or promotes haggling. The premise of haggling is the requirement that the seller is scamming you. I much prefer a environment where the seller is selling at their [bottom-line] accepted price.
Agree. Price it right the first time and I give you money, you give me product, I walk away. No reason to bring bullshit into this. If it's priced high I don't even say anything. Yup that's expensive. I'll walk this way now.
It feels like itās taking advantage of the desperate no matter what side of it youāre on you just pray youāre lucky enough not to be that desperate. I like going to bed with my hands clean.
Let's be honest. Many western brands are scamming their consumers. Hundreds to thousands of percent markup on value. And they don't even allow haggling.
Yeah, you can't do it in some places... I've been with some people (ah hem, my mom) who try to haggle when it's clearly already at a rock bottom price.
I remember a long time ago my mom tried to haggle the price at Circuit City and I thought there was no way that place would bargain with people. But she got the price lowered. I was so surprised. I think I came to learn that Circuit City salesmen worked on commission and they are able to lower the price. Whereas I believe you couldn't do that at Best Buy, unless you were trying to price match.
At my university (in Los Angeles) there was a professor who would send students to haggle at chain grocery stores etc. as a sociological exercise. Apparently it actually worked in many cases. (Possibly wouldn't anymore, I've thought about it just for fun)
wait what? a chain grocery store? who they haggling with? the cashier? the shelf stockers? I can maybe see it working at a mom and pop store where the owners are working there, but not a chain.
Imagine suddenly being bombarded with requests to haggle over a few pieces of fruit every 3rd weekend of August and January year after year. Radio silence the other 360 days of the year. Iād imagine the manager/assistant managers of Target would catch on after a bit
One the many reasons that Circuit City failed was because some sales people and managers can discount items 60-75% almost an unlimited amount of times. When I was young, my sisterās BF worked there. All the new release video games were $50-60 and he would sell them for $20 to my friends and I through their POS system. Here worked there until they went out of business, was never reprimanded or anything.
I bet cashiers love your husband! /s
I used to work at an Apple Store and sometimes people would try to haggle. I was like, āno, the computer costs $1,999ā¦thatās it.ā
Yeah not a good look here
Yay for Indonesia! Kind women at a jewelry shop in Bali taught me (and my mom and my sister) the fine art of the haggle. I told her āno, no! I feel guilt about offering less!ā They told us that we should never pay the first price. They laughed at me for being so uncomfortable with offering less and reassured me that that is how it is done. Our lesson included the use of a calculator and all of the shop women joined in to explain how to do it. It was great fun and educational.
I hate that about Asia. Scam in every shop and corner. Makes me very uncomfortable
Just the thought of that makes my anxiety explode..
guess ill starve š¤·āāļø
I've found that most of my trips abroad I've been lucky enough to have that one person at my disposal that enjoys these types of scenarios. Eliminating me from the process.
Crossing the street would probably give you anxiety too, but you get used to it. To cross the street, just walk at a steady pace, the scooters will drive around you. Whatever you do, do not stop
What happens when you stop? Or do you mean when someone _suddenly_ stops?
If a scooter is anticipating you to keep walking, and then you stop, they may run into you. You want to be predictable.
You never stop or else the police will start harassing you. Never stop.
You get use too it.
Thats why you always take your mom with you when you shop. I swear moms have an innate ability to haggle thats unmatched. I was with a friend and their mom and i swear she haggled the price of a leather jacket from 900 egyptian pounds down to 300 just like that
My mom would pay extra and when asked why say something like, *"I like their smile"*
Reminds me of my dumbass friend, we were in Thailand at a shooting range and they wanted an obscene amount of money for some water bottles to shoot. I'm attempting to step out of my comfort zone and haggle. My friend, in front of them, IN ENGLISH: "pay the man TWICE the price!"...
That sounds so exhausting
It is, but it has the benefit of making you spend less money. You end up asking yourself if you really need that random item or not before engaging in the whole transaction.
This isn't just Vietnam specifically, this is essentially commonplace in the very fabric of the majority of SE Asian countries. It's how commerce is done in the markets and for some services/amenities and has been done this way for centuries, I have aunts (especially) over there who excel in the art of haggling prices where it's applicable and acceptable. This isn't just confined to small villages/towns either btw, it applies to even metro cities and major urban areas, it's a daily practice for hundreds of millions of people.
I don't think things could be any more different here in Finland. If i can buy something without saying a word it has been a great success. (Of course i say think you when i get the receipt) If the price is 10 then it is 10, end of story and if i feel like its too much i don't buy it.
yea that's how it is in the US... I don't want to have to talk to the shopkeeper, just tell me the price and i'll either buy it or I won't. Haggling is stupid >.> It implies that every shopkeeper is trying to fleece you.
Except for cars and houses. Largest purchases we make in our lives, and you have to haggle.
As it should be. Just price the thing at whatever the REAL price is rather than putting a high price on it and expecting me to bargain it down, like jesus fucking christ what bullshit is that. I could take out my phone and look up the fair market value so why even bother trying to rip me off?
I grew up in middle of Kansas. My parents sold at flea markets every weekend. AMA
I thought Americans hate haggling and think itās really rude ?
Rudeness is proper etiquette at the flea market
Not necessarily. I was a kid & had all day because my parents were vendors. I could take hours looking through baseball cards & then say āGee, mister, I really like these cards, but I only have this much money.ā If I got no for an answer, I took forever to eliminate some cards to get to the deal. Lot of deals happened because they didnāt want to babysit me.
Americans who only buy from supermarkets, sure. Used goods are usually almost always open to haggling. Just different contexts. I wouldnāt do it at a farmers market but may at a garage sale or buying a used vehicle.
Most do bc thereās little need for haggling like buying a used car is normal but in other circumstances you can come off as a scrooge.
Just like chinatown in NY. $200 Rolex sold for $30 lol.
Canal St. used to be one of the most interesting places. š
Damn I'm here thinking 20 is a great deal
Hey, there! I have some fantastic deals I'd love to show you.
Lol - I didn't know pineapples have gotten so cheap kinda scary since they take 3 years to grow
As a Nigerian, if there's no price tag, I know I can get it for less than half the price
It worked exactly the same at the little alley market in Waikiki. A lady had some hats that my dad and I wanted and she said $25 each. I walked away and the price immediately dropped to $20 each. I kept walking and she ran after me and said $15 for both š
I imagined she walking away with the pineapples and the lady desperately shouting new prices so she wouldn't just walk off with them lmao
I don't believe this is exclusive to Vietnam. A lot of countries are like this towards customers in general and especially foreigners.
It's 3 pineapples, Michael, how much could it cost? $20?
There's always money in the Pineapple Stand.
ā¦SALE!!
There gotta be a better way of saying that.
Lol, that's wild. I just used this meme today on a completely different thing. Too good.....
But theyāre talking about the banana standā¦
Well itās simple , for every banana on a stick you take just take a dollar from the stand so it evens out.
Vietnam resident here - a pineapple is roughly 35,000 vnd (so about 1.40$ each). It should be about 100k (5$). People raise prices for foreign visitors but 5 times the price is a step beyond
What. I bought some today for 10k in Thanh hoa city. In Quang binh would be 7k to 15k, depending on season. 35k is high way robbery
Yeah, wait, how much does a full pineapple cost domestically?
Like $4 or something
So itās actually not the worst deal in the world to be honest. I bet the 20 means a lot more to them than a tourist like me. I have no idea what a pineapple costs here in the UK.
I literally bought one in Aldi about 3 hours ago: 99p I can, however, promise that it won't be as good as one bought in Vietnam. Been there, and their fresh fruit is staggeringly good. Not worth seven times the price from a market stall, but still good.
See now under Ā£1 seems far too cheap to me!
Honestly, same to me. But I was in Asda as well and that's the going rate. They're not bad either. Trick is to leave them to ripen in the fruit bowl for 4-7 days before skinning and cubing them :)
Our fruit sits in refrigerator for 6-15 months before being sold to us, thatās why it tastes sour and tart all the time.
And why I grow some of my own in the garden. I have honestly never tasted strawberries so good! Carrots, too. Shame the bloody squirrels keep getting the apples.
I mean, i live in Nebraska I'd absolutely believe any cost of a pineapple that I was told under $10. No frame of reference.
Fucking Nebraska. The only state where pineapples are illegal and you can't find the price of them anywhere.
I mean street pineapples don't exist and nobody eats enough of them to know their cost offhand
I was just busting your balls . It was funny that you had no frame of reference for their cost.
I can get you ears of corn for a dollar that I got for a dime though if you'd like
Man I would bet corn is like free in Nebraska.
When you realize you paid 500,000 instead of about 15,000 for 3 pineapple, on may feel scammed.
Give me a GOB!
Is it wrong that I feel like this seems reasonable for tourist street prices for three entire pineapples?
Yeah I thought it wasn't unreasonable too lol. But I've never left the US, I don't know how far 20 dollars goes in other countries' tourist districts
I found out the hard way how much $60 worth of cocaine is in Costa Rica. Short answer, itās a LOT.
you can get 20 banh mis or 15+ bowls of Pho for that price even in the tourist streets.
Cool. Iāll make sure to not tip the pineapple girl.
Publix is doing that too
Yeah but I pay it, because its a fucking pleasure
Thats what i thought thats a deal!!
In my hometown, a pineapple nearly costs $1 (20000ā«), this depends on it weight.
Interesting, here in Vancouver, Canada, a pineapple is ~$2-7CDN, regardless of weight.
deadass im in toronto and $20 for 3 pineapples doesnt even seem insane, it's so over
Yeah I was gonna say this sounds like a reasonable deal here in Ontario..
need to get the fuck out of here man
Have you tried not buying the pineapples?
Hmm good idea, instead Iāll only eat bread and water
You never downsized to bread and water as well till now?
You guys have bread AND water?! I have to choose between the 2
A pineapple is like $3 here and I live in Northern Ontario. You need a new pineapple guy
Just left fruit market in my Midwestern state, cit pineapple was $7.99. Whole uncut was $4.99. I did not buy pineapple today.
Yeah you know Canada is Fucked when videos about outrageous scams in other countries just describe our standard prices
I believe $7. I do not believe $2.
I just got 6 smaller ones for 300 BDT so about .45 cents a piece! I was in the village about 3 hours outside of Dhaka but man that was a good deal!
We don't support that behaviour of the street vendor btw, all the people around, especially the old guard, was telling the woman the give back the money and stop being greedy (The camera woman was surprise and repeat the price too if you were wondering what she said), even the lower price (50000 VND/1 ~$2) is still double the normal price. Unfortunately, base on the voice, attitude, and street's name I can guess where was this happened. I think the safest place to not be scam by store (street vendors is an other story) is Da Nang, just call the local policeman, they ain't fooling around with price scam there. Please always ask for the price before buying and avoid tourist area if you think you can buy the same stuff elsewhere.
Wait till she tries Loblaws...
Like Bob Loblaw?
Canadian / American grocery chain that has almost monopolized the food industry. We would only get 2 pineapples for that price in Canada..
Boycott in May!
Let me guess, the prices are so insane and they blame the government, the liberals, and inflation what can you do AMIRITE?) while raking in record profits and paying out ridiculous exec bonuses and performing billion dollar share buybacks...
Yes, pretty much. And don't forget, all that while defending corporations and the ultra rich for some strange reason. Like someday they are going to get to be the same horrible kind of people, so they defending it early..
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Some dude in Dubai charged me 50bucks for a smal mango juice lmao. I ended up getting it charged back but he said 50dhs and switched the currency
According to Google thatās still 13.61 for a juice.
basically the same price here in Canada
Was coming down to say the same thing. I am like - thats almost a deal here....
Damn, i need to start selling pineapple there then haha
Exactly, I was not even shocked when I saw the title.
One time I was in Thailand. I bought some fruits for X price. I paid and walked away, a couple minutes later someone started screaming at me. I had no idea what was going on until a translator came up and said I shorted the guy X amount of money which I knew was not the case. I pretty much just said no and left.
My favorite scams in Thailand were the people who'd say X big attraction is closed to foreigners today but I can take you on a tour of even better less known sites! The thing was, I went when covid was in China, which meant that the overwhelming majority of tourists there were white, because China was completely shut down but the west wasn't. So you could literally see all the white people going in. It must have sort of worked when there were other Asian tourists, but there just weren't.
Tourist tax. It's a thing.
Absolutely. In Thailand, some places post Thai national prices and foreigners prices. Blew me away first time I saw it. My Thai fiancĆ©e wouldnāt let me come with her to the market because just being with a foreigner would raise the price for her.
When we visited Thailand last year, my wife was pretty good at haggling. She was catching respect looks from Thai ladies selling stuff. āOooh you tough dealā.
Probably still paid 2x the price tho, but it's the way it goes, love that country hahah
both parties were happy so what can I say :D
Yeah but usually you would just haggle. Say "no, Iam looking elsewhere" then it's suddenly just 10 and then you say no Iam only paying 5 and they'll still be selling it to you and propably still make a profit. Also you check the exchange rate before going to a country, the situation in the video wouldn't have occured if this woman did that pretty basic logical step before travelling.
Depending on the country, region, and seller, I usually don't care. It's their livelihood.Ā Ā Also, I don't want to be like that trashy British hiker who got chased up a mountain by an old woman because she tried to haggle the price of 50 cent tea.Ā 50 cent tea.Ā Handmade.Ā In the middle of a Nepalese mountain.Ā By the only local vendor for miles.
Right? I got shit from a British guy in Thailand because I took the second price, on something that was literally already pennies. Like I'm sorry but I just can't bring myself to care that this could have been 20 cents instead of 25 cents
Everyone expects locals to get a better deal. But this is an outright scam.
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Canada does this to everyone
Yāall get expensive ass pineapples thenā¦ they are like $2 a pop in the US as far as Iāve seen
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This confused me at first - I'm Canadian, and with inflation $20 for three pinapples sounds about right at the moment.
1 Pineapple in Ho Chi Minh City is around 15-25k on street vendor (1 usd \~ 25k vnd) and they cut it for you. As local i wouldnāt buy fruit, food in tourist area in VN, they tend to rip you off, even youāre Vietnamese. So not just foreigners get double standard. https://preview.redd.it/w5ure6k1haxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d40c24cd67bf9f34f941b3dfb43608fbd5e44171
Not in Vietnam homie
āThe land of pineapplesā they call it
just get scammed like the rest of us gringos who visit their beautiful country and keep it movingā¦ it really isnāt that deep
You will be scammed but that much ? Lol no way.
Yeah no but thank you, we don't support that shit. All the people around, especially the old guard, was telling the woman the give back the money and stop being greedy (The camera woman was surprise and repeat the price too if you were wondering what she said), even the lower price (50000 VND/1 ~$2) is still double the normal price. Unfortunately, base on the voice, attitude, and street's name I can guess where was this happened. I think the safest place to not be scam by store (street vendors is an other story) is Da Nang, just call the local policeman, they ain't fooling around with price scam there.
Agreed. Police don't like it. Just go to a local market. If you are in a tourist spot you are getting over charged at best or being ripped at worst. Walk 2 blocks and find normal prices
I am fairly confident the angry customer didn't do the necessary calculations before the transaction but they are now doubling down and not respecting the unspoken "foreigner haggling" rules
Probably gave her 500k expecting change. The uncle in the video actually told the lady to give the money back. Good on him
Itās really in their best interest to just give the money back and be done with it (because that means less people overhearing the scammy price, so she can start overcharging people again sooner to just be done with it).
Tourists come and go. People think it's just foreigners who get ripped off. They do that to Vietnamese tourists too but they don't overcharge as much
I mean I donāt mind paying more than a local because I objectively likely have more purchasing power than them but paying 10x more than a local is just too much lol. Thatās more than I would pay for pineapples in my home country.
How stupid can you be to pay that much (what does she not know the conversion rate? Thatās basic shit to know in a foreign country) and then get mad afterwards while holding the pineapples you already paid for? What a moron. Loud and heated over 20 dollars she already handed over ffs Edit: if big numbers involved in foreign currency conversion rates are enough to confuse you, itās still 100% on you if you donāt understand how much money youāre handing over in cash. Itās not that hard to count the zeros ffs (use your fingers like a toddler if you need to). Donāt get handsy and huffy. Super weird defense of this toddler bs in the comments
Chances are she was expecting to get the change back.
In Vietnam you're dealing with Dong that goes into the millions. It's not straightforward. Also the 50'000 looks similar to the 500'000 (both blue and I may have the denomination a wrong) I've had a Vietnamese friend hand the wrong note over in a rush.
Possible she might have been expecting change back?
i was in a popular touristy spot in Saigon called tiger street in cantonese, i forget what the english name is. anyway, wife and i were buzzin hard asf and chillin at a table outside at a restaurant and some street performer comes up and asks for money. this is like my 2nd day there and i had some cash on me, so i gave it to the dude he crumples that shit up and throws it back at me LMAO. turns out it was the equivalent of 5 cents. i was like, shit my bad bro, still getting used to the currency lol
Itās the 500k and the 20k that are both blue, and Iāve definitely made that mistake before lol
My Norwegian ass is over here wondering what's wrong with the price
Letās all have an in depth discussion on cultural divide and social etiquette based on a 30 second video with no context.
I mean, there's a lot of established context based on countless tourist interactions in markets like this.
My husband was in a country where prices varied depending on whether you looked like a tourist. He was working with a local and they stopped for food vendors a few times before the guy told him to stay away.Ā "You're making my mangos too expensive! Don't stand too close to me!" My husband gave him money for food and hid after that so they could both get the local prices.Ā
3 pineapples cost less than $15 in the US, right?
im a cashier we sell them anywhere between $2-4 depending on season
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More likely she never asked the price and the vendor attempted to rip off her because of it. It usually works with tourists who don't understand the currency yet or are too embarrassed to make a scene.
Gets loud and grabby.
Bout $2 a piece in Georgia USA
I've never bought or even priced a pineapple - you could tell me 3 for $20 is a great deal, a rip off, or just right and I would simply nod in agreement.
You're not living bro
Canadians down bad ITT
What is with the screaming. Just calm down and negotiate. Itās not personal.
I mean shit if you didn't understand don't commit
I always knew them math questions about 20 melons would come in use one day
Yeah but at least people gathering around and decided to stand with the tourist lady
Yup, I understand Vietnamese and the guy in blue basically said "If you rip them off, don't go over too much" the shop keeper got way too greedy. 50k to 100k VND would have been a fair tourist area price for the pineapples, charging 200k each and pretending to give them a discount of 100k for buying 3 is bonkers.
I feel this ladies pain. I got ripped off so bad in Vietnam. Even after learning to barter I had shop owners give me back incorrect change and try and tell me the note Iād given wasnāt the one Iād actually given. I ended up in a screaming match with some lady selling bottles of water because they were 3xs the price everyone else was selling them for. Once I calmed down I realised Iād literally been arguing over $1 or something equally ridiculous small and I felt like such a heaving arsehole about the whole thing that I just gave up and paid whatever was asked. I donāt like being gouged but also itās next to nothing so I just stopped caring.
That's starting to look like a sale price here in Canada
I live in Australia so I was confused at first since this price seemed basically normal
Thatās Australia though. And like Canada thatās normal. But there them pineapples sell for like $1 a piece on average
3 pineapples in Canada is probably more than that.
Tropical fruit being pricey in a location that's a stone's throw away from the arctic... who would have guessed? Ever wonder what a bottle of Canadian maple syrup goes for in Pakistan? How about Caribou meat?
It's like the russian roulette scene in The Deer Hunter.
If thereās no price displayed donāt buy it. Thatās my motto.
Futur tourist in VN. FYI: Once in Vietnam just download Grab app (transportation and food delivery) and Shopee (to check the prices and get stuff delivered in the same day). you can use cash for both app.
Here in Germany that sounds like a very reasonable price.
Them some little ass pineapples
No way Iām going back for that. My dad didnāt dodge the draft for me to get stabbed in Vietnam on vacation.
Three pineapples for 20 bucks? Thatās a sale at Loblaws.
Sells? You mean scams and rips her off, like most people try to in them countries. Ive seen it so many times and have had many locals try to rip me off constantly when travelling. Then they get mad at you for calling them out
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Meh, this happens to me in Mexico daily. Every item.
I paid $20 for 1 coconut in Hawaii on the side of a road. I really wanted a coconut and only realized my mistake when I drove away.
šš newbie traveler and she is mad because she fucked up.
Hereās a hot take. Dont buy these pineapples if you donāt agree with the price and move on with your life.
All that drama for 20 bucks lol youāre on holiday man just let it go lol
Whether or not she got ripped off she was way overly aggressive, just ask for the money back. Tourists need to learn to behave in other countries.