Amazing Thailand!

[iendo]

Let us handle your 90-day reports.

• One time? ฿900.

• But wait, if you want to make life easy and pay for 4 times in advance… that’ll be ฿4,000.

🤦‍♂️

Only in Thailand can a ‘bulk package’ mean paying more per service. Brilliant.

[Keithambrose]

7 hours ago, iendo said:

Let us handle your 90-day reports.

• One time? ฿900.

• But wait, if you want to make life easy and pay for 4 times in advance… that’ll be ฿4,000.

🤦‍♂️

Only in Thailand can a ‘bulk package’ mean paying more per service. Brilliant.

Excellent  advertising!  Presumably 10,000 for 8 times!

[PeterRS]

@iendo  - love to know where you found that ad. The advertiser should be outed.

[vinapu]

reminds me buying small picture  in hotel's gift shop in Mandalay back in 2001 : " how much is that picture ?" , " 8 $ but we have promotion - 2 for 20$ "

[Keithambrose]

4 hours ago, vinapu said:

reminds me buying small picture  in hotel's gift shop in Mandalay back in 2001 : " how much is that picture ?" , " 8 $ but we have promotion - 2 for 20$ "

Remember  the shop 'Grot' in Reggie Perrin. Sale prices were always more than original price! Sales pitch included, 'Every single thing in this shop is guaranteed absolutely useless'. 

[Keithambrose]

Just now, Keithambrose said:

Remember  the shop 'Grot' in Reggie Perrin. Sale prices were always more than original price! Sales pitch included, 'Every single thing in this shop is guaranteed absolutely useless'. 

Inevitably,  the shop was a roaring success......

[iendo]

10 hours ago, PeterRS said:

@iendo  - love to know where you found that ad. The advertiser should be outed.

Here you go: https://unionspace.co.th/90days-reporting-thailand.php

[PeterRS]

12 minutes ago, iendo said:

Here you go: https://unionspace.co.th/90days-reporting-thailand.php

Many thanks

[10tazione]

Not the story I was looking for, but similar:

The Tale of the Blacksmith and the Single Nail

A horseman arrived in a village and went to see the blacksmith because his horse had lost a horseshoe. He asked the blacksmith what it would cost to forge a single nail for the shoe.

"One penny," the blacksmith replied.

The horseman thought for a moment and then asked, "And what would ten nails cost?"

The blacksmith pondered this and said, "Ten nails will cost a silver coin." (A price significantly higher than ten pennies).

The horseman was confused. "That's illogical!" he exclaimed. "Why does each nail become more expensive when I take more of them? Usually, you get a discount for larger quantities!"

The old blacksmith wiped the sweat from his brow, looked at the horseman, and explained calmly:

"It is very simple to forge a single nail. I take a piece of iron I have on hand, heat it in the embers that are already glowing, and with a few strikes of the hammer, the nail is done. It hardly disrupts my workflow.

But if you want ten nails, I must interrupt my actual work. I have to select and cut new iron specifically for them. I have to stoke the fire in the forge, bring it to the perfect temperature, and maintain it. I must concentrate on forging ten identical nails of consistent quality. That costs me more time, more coal, more concentration, and it keeps me from larger, more profitable jobs. Making ten nails isn't just ten times the work of one nail—it's a separate, more demanding task."

[vinapu]

5 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

 Sale prices were always more than original price!

not as illogical as it sound. I trade sometimes on e-bay and used that tactic few times - if item did not sell, delist it and list again with new , higher price. Works quite often

[Keithambrose]

4 hours ago, vinapu said:

not as illogical as it sound. I trade sometimes on e-bay and used that tactic few times - if item did not sell, delist it and list again with new , higher price. Works quite often

Does it work with your stamp collection?

[vinapu]

2 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

Does it work with your stamp collection?

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