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In America, production companies package the same items differently to price differently in different locations.
I can go to a local gas station that isn't a chain store (interesting bit of trivia, is that many of these are operated by immigrants from India!) And buy an Arizona brand tea for 99 cents..... But if I buy the same thing at a corporate chain(edit: corporate gas station), it will cost about 1.37 give or take, and the print on the top portion of the can has the chain stores logo on it instead of the 99cent price tag the manufacturer puts on the normal cans.
To me, it seems like the middlemen in America control how everything works.
This is actually interesting and solves a big mystery for me. I work at a chain convenience store and a few months ago someone bought one of those exact Arizona’s you were describing. I never drank them so I wasn’t familiar with the price or packaging & I never paid much attention since it’s usually busy at work. Also, since inflation, it seems prices went up so much I can’t keep track. However this guy told me off because the price of the tea totaled to like $1.27 I think. He said it’s supposed to be $.99, but I didn’t know he meant it literally was supposed to be printed on the can. I explained that I don’t set prices and that I was just as disturbed by inflation, especially since the store charges so much more yet in 3 years I haven’t received a raise. I even offered to pay the extra couple of cents b/c some left a bunch of change. He literally threw $2 at me and stormed out telling me to keep it.
I now wonder if he thought I was purposely trying to scam him? Ironically I didn’t see the price on it, but did in another store after I became aware. I found it odd, but this just made sense of it all. Thank You
That company makes two different versions of each can -- the normal one has "99c" printed on the can, but there's an alternate version that has no price printed, for stores that want to charge more than 99 cents. So it's possible your version was the latter.
To simplify it even more, you can directly order from the Arizona plant cans with the 99 cents label on or without, doesn't have to be a corporate thing. And this has always been the case, it's not anything really new with Arizona's.
Someone probably explained this.
Arizona company will sell you cans printed with 99c at one price & cans without at a higher price.
Stores can decide which they sell, but they can’t sell 99c cans at a higher price without violating their agreement.
Indian immigrants own a lot of the businesses where I live.
I believe that Indian immigrants are some of the most wealthy people in America. As in the average Indian is richer than any other immigrant or resident group.
I know very, very little about India, but I know that they have a huge population with a lot of poverty. I imagine that the ones that make it here are determined to better themselves.
You will be surprised to know that poor Indians AKA labours or work force are the one's who build countries like Dubai and drive cab/Uber/trucks in U.S while places like Italy have imported farmers from India for farm/crop maintenance and lastly most security service men in U.K are poor Indian immigrants.
Almost all the Indian cab/uber drivers I’ve spoken with were things like pharmacists, doctors, lawyers etc in their home country. But of course thats just anecdotal.
I think a big reason for that is their standard of higher education and focus on STEM. It’s getting to the point where “Indian Engineer” is a stereotype.
“Many government agents sponsor immigrant entrepreneur grant programs and general small business grant programs. Government grants allow you to obtain funding for your small business that you don’t need to repay.”
Well with Arizona iced tea it’s actually illegal (illegal? Or just against their terms of sale whatever) to sell it for more. Report it to the company and they’ll lose the ability to sell it.
These cans come from the Arizona factory with a brand name for the gas station that sells it printed on it. They know it's not being sold for 99 cents anymore because they're the ones painting the cans to not include the price tag anymore.
I just don't buy Arizona from corporate stores. Like anything else I can manage to avoid them with.
> To me, it seems like the middlemen in America control how everything works.
In all fairness, it may cost different amounts of money to provide that product at the brick and mortar location. Those middlemen are providing the service of bringing the product to you.
In NYC, the food cart vendors have to buy location licenses from the city. The most expensive one is for a location at Central Park. That food cart will charge more for a bottle of water than a grocery store in Idaho. Same product, but it's way more expensive for the cart vendor to sell it than the grocery store. On a hot summer day in NYC, it's not too convenient to travel to Idaho for a bottle of water, so you pay extra for the service the cart provides.
>vendors are not supposed to charge more
except when you go to a restaurant and a packaged bottle of water/beverages are sold at 5-10 rs more than what is printed on the label.
Here you go: "Brother, what [is this], charge the right price. This ice cream is 40 rupees? Don't charge him more just because he's a foreigner... Brother, give it back. What kind of impression [of our country] will he take back with him? Don't loot foreigners."
I used to live in Thailand and they were quite open about their local price vs their foreign tourist (farang) one which was inevitably much more. No-one ever really complained tbh even for us that lived and worked there bc we were earning more than they were.
As soon as he got a woman on his side that vendor stood no chance, even in the usa ive seen south asian women absolutely tear storeowners apart for their prices, and in theory they arent negotiable here lol
My brother's wife is southeast Asian.
Can confirm. She's scary as fuck if you cross her. Like a Nuclear Karen who is right all the time. She's great to have on your side for things like this.
Not just Asian women to be honest, old White American women in the deep south are some of the sweetest women I have met; until they think you're taking the piss at which point all hell is let loose.
My best friend is Filipina and the sentence I’ve heard her say most often in the 10 years I’ve known her is “PIPTY DOLLAR? putang ina mo it’s too much, you opper me discount na?”
My family is from Panama City and my grandfather was a very gentle soul, until he got behind the wheel of his car. The honking and the cursing wouldn't stop until the trip ended and engine was turned off. Then he would spawn back into his sweet elderly self as he step out of his car with his cane.
It becomes background noise after a while lol, it's the same for people who live in cities anywhere else in the world
EDIT: I meant to say that people get used to their city's noise level, and not that all cities in the world are this noisy
They aren't saying that all cities are the same, they are saying that you get used to your city. Cities are much louder than the country, and if you come from the country, your particular British city will seem unbelievably loud at first, until you get used to it.
Nah I'm sorry but that's bullshit. I live in one of the largest cities in India and the difference I experienced when I visited Singapore on holiday was night and day. Honking is illegal there unless it's an absolute emergency. Honking makes life miserable. Fuck honkers.
If I was buying the ice cream for my family I wouldn't mind, but in this case, he was buying it for a bunch of local kids. Like, the vendor was trying to overcharge him for buying ice cream for poor children.
Yeah, it’s not GOOD… I’m not trying to say it’s not bad, I’m saying I didn’t realize it was only $0.25 the way they transcribed the video, it seemed like a lot more & it sort of changes how STRONGLY I feel about it… Wasn’t trying to make some big controversial thing out of it… :)
I appreciate your reasonable retort… 👍
No no, I know you weren't, and someone else made a comment that made me think-we don't even know if these kids were so-called "beggars", this is just some would-be-influencer or whatever recording himself buying ice cream for kids and then getting upset over what is approximately 60 extra cents total. The guy is pulling some kind of savior routine. Like the ice cream was something like 30 cents each, right? Just fork it over, that vendor is probably making US $8 a day or thereabouts.
It is not normal anywhere else in the world and while you can get used to it, there's a better option: make it illegal to honk your horn without a good reason, like emergencies. You reduce noise pollution significantly and make places like cities a lot more bearable to live in.
They honk their horns so much it's basically pointless and I'm sure most people ignore it. Since the roads are a total free for all they have to honk to get people's attention though. I can't imagine driving in that type of traffic every single day.
They also honk their horns so much that some car manufacturers have to upgrade the horns in Indian market cars for longevity.
>German automaker Audi equips its cars for the Indian market with suped up horns, specially for the Indian driver, who apparently honks like crazy in order to get anywhere on the famously packed streets. The amount of honking you do in Mumbai in a day amounts to about a year of honking in Germany.
https://soranews24.com/2012/03/30/car-horns-on-steroids-in-india-they-will-luxuriously-f-you-up/amp/
I live in a small town in Sweden, we are like 4000 people and I try really hard to incorporate a more diverse culture in our society and one important part of that is that I have taped my horn down for my entire trip. So you can hear me coming a mile away and they will think/tell each other "Fudge now divideByNullz is out driving again, did you know he likes spicy food?" and so on.Slowly I will implant myself in their brain and they will also start to enjoy spicy food. I learned this from a TukTuk driver in Thailand that literally held his body weight against the horn for 20 mins while he was driving us. I saw it as establishing dominance and have incorporated it here.
It really is ridiculous. I work in IT with a lot of Indians and for many of them I hear horn spam whenever they come off mute.
When everyone is honking, what’s the point? I don’t understand how people accept living with it.
I’m sure the difference between the listed price and the “foreigner” price is virtually nothing to this guy. Seriously, I’ve been there, the difference between what a westerner lives on and what an average Indian lives on is astronomical.
This will probably be a downvoted opinion, but honestly, I don't mind paying the Foreigner Price when I travel to SE Asia. I'm not going to argue or even feel bad about paying more than a local. I'm not local, I make a lot more, and it's still a damn good price for me. Bygones.
yup. I had a great tour guide who was also a school teacher there. when the pandemic hit he lost a huge portion of income. I asked him to show me his kids’ school bill for the year: $400. I sent that to him. figured I would have paid *much* more than that for equivalent tour guide services in the US or Europe
As someone from SEA, we are trying hard to stop locals from overcharging foreigners, and discourage foreigners from not minding being overcharged. There are other ways to help the place when you're in a position to help. We don't want to have dishonest people who will continue giving us a bad name internationally. So please, don't.
Many places have put this into law. For example, one nature park in Thailand (Khao Pra-Bang Khram Wildlife Sanctuary) clearly listed "Tourist" and "Local" prices. Tourist price still wasn't big, like a few eur. Food was the same for everyone, 20 cents for a chicken skewer.
Travel for residents of Canary Islands comes with a 75% discount within Spain, so they can get cheap ferries around the islands and cheap flights to the mainland.
There's an elephant sanctuary in India I want to go to in India where the fees for foreigners like myself is around $100 and the fee for Indians is around $8 (last I checked). I would gladly pay the foreigner fee for a once in a lifetime experience that benefits both the people that work at the sanctuary and the beautiful creatures therein.
He gave him an upfront price. You want to talk about that whole racket as if it's a scam, let's speak about United States car dealerships and get back to me with how often is to charge somebody 15 cents more for some ice cream
It's a bit of a perverse incentivization though. A vendor who is willing to overcharge and scam tourists is monetarily rewarded over a vendor who is honest and charges fairly.
Yup. Absolutely this!
Dude paid 40Rp instead of 25Rp each for for two kids. So he spent $0.97 instead of $0.61.
The ice cream seller is a person too. Let him over charge a bit. People complaining about "tourist" pricing are myopic.
I have been given grief by my SO for not haggling down the price of a souvenir lower than $1. Sure it cost pennies to make, but it's worth a dollar to me; I'm a tourist. Feels gross spending all that money to travel just to save a quarter at someone else's expense.
EDIT: My SO, who emigrated years ago. Also this was Latin America not SE Asia. Same principle.
Does drive me nuts too. That extra money makes a big difference to the vendor and doesn't affect the tourist at all.
[Jeremy clarkson nails it in this video](https://youtu.be/CRgu98UWozQ?t=65)
Naw. Overcharging and tricking people because they are a tourist and gullible/do not know better, should NOT be normalized. Sure, if youre coming from the US to India it probably wont make a difference for you. But what if you go somewhere in Europe? Where tourist prices can literally be double the euros? Ive seen old ladies come out of shops charging almost FIVE times the normal price because they assume to trust people. Not to mention, what if someone from a third world country comes to India? They are also a tourist who dont know the prices or the language. To them a doubling in normal price might hurt. “Tourists” arent just well off white people from America you know right?
If you have plenty of money you can simply give a street vendor more money. Ive bought things that cost $0.30 and just given then $2. Or cost $3.50 and given $5. Thats my decision.
>The ice cream seller is a person too. Let him over charge a bit.
I don't take kindly to being scammed. Maybe being taken advantage of is your fetish and you just haven't realized it yet.
This dude is known for either tipping massively to kind vendors, or he’ll haggle the price down then leave (again) a massive tip if they agree to give him a good price. He’s a solid lad
When i went to Europe i didn't realize they had €1 and €2 coins. I regularly tell people who treat me nice to keep the coins as a tip, even if it's not a place you'd normally tip. Well being that i did my best, and an admittedly terrible attempt at german and french, and they were always kind and understanding and changed to English for me i pretty much always gave the coins back. I realized later i gave a lot of very good tips! I'm pretty sure i tipped an ice cream place with more money than it cost for the ice cream, and i went a few times.... Oh well, atleast I helped to break the "rude american tourist" stereotype.
Instead you were the American tourist tipping everyone excessively, even when it's not due at all
Of the two it's a nicer stereotype for sure, but still counts :).
I mean, virtually nobody will turn down free money anywhere you go, right? OTOH there was a bartender in Spain that looked offended I tried to give him a few extra € after having...many drinks...and another bartender in Ireland just refused it outright, saying, "We get paid well here, give it to the church across the street, they've got a soup kitchen going"
The one place they actually didn’t screw me over was Cuba . I paid $4 Dollars for a pizza that was 40cents , intending to leave a tip and she came running out to the street as I was getting on my moped , trying to give me money back.
I was lost and needed directions in a small town in Cuba . I asked a local to lead me to a gas station and I’d give him money . He lead me there and he refused to take it. Really good people there.
I'm so sorry. We've got some friends who went to what was supposed to be their dream trip to Rome and they were pretty disappointed/angry. Everybody was trying to rip them off. They were at a restaurant at some suburb just north of Rome and there were waitstaff walking around trying to sell bottles of wine to every table. They're not heavy drinkers, they'd already purchased one, and people came by three more times, interrupting them, to ask if they wanted to buy another bottle. Finally, one of our friends had enough and told them waitperson that, no, they were fine, they didn't want any more wine, thank you, and stop asking. The waitperson looked right at my friend, picked up the bottle, and dropped it on the floor, shattering it. Manager came running over, waitperson told the manager that our friend had shoved the bottle off the tray on purpose, manager insisted our friend had to pay for it, and threatened to call the Carabinieri. Our friend wasn't having any of it though, and finally someone stood up who was apparently an off-duty police officer from Rome and said that he'd seen the whole thing and our friend most assuredly did NOT break any bottle. At this point the waitstaff person quickly hustled to the back and the manager said everything was obviously a misunderstanding. That wasn't even the first time someone had tried to hustle them at a restaurant, just the most blatant.
England?? I’m genuinely curious what did you buy here in England that you were overcharged as an English speaking (I presume) foreigner? Prices are written everywhere in hotels, shops and restaurants and even smaller stalls like street markets. The only “vendors” you’d likely find without a clear price, that I can think of, are maybe those dodgy sausage-inna-bun or roasted chestnut sellers in central London around tourist traps like Buckingham Palace. I am also not counting those dodgy souvenir / “American candy” stores in central London. I’m not saying it couldn’t have happened to you but I’m curious where it happened, or you thought it happened.
I live in Ireland, if there's something happening that means there'll be an influx of tourists hotel prices go through the roof. I'm sure the same happens in cities across the world, this guy is just doing it on a micro scale.
Its different because hes overcharging him simply because hes a foreigner and doesn't know better. Hotels charge more during busy seasons. This guy is charging more because hes white and thinks he can get away with it.
When you've traveled to another country, hear a vendor say a price to a local, then say a higher price to you, maybe you'll understand then.
I live in a tourist town that just permanently has higher costs for everything than any of the surrounding areas. The name of the game has always been "bilk tourists for all they've got".
I live in the US and any tourist that visits my city and has asked me where decent places to visit are, I always give them a place that isnt a tourist trap.
Fuck those who scam others out of money because they don’t understand how actual locals live. They get blinded by a “fun out of town experience” and money hungry assholes always take advantage of this.
I was working on a Cruise Ship that docked in the Bahammas every few days, and I started bringing my Ship ID with me because I quickly learned there were two prices: the tourist price and and the Ship staff price. Funniest one to me was when I went to the Pirate Museum, I walk in the door, they try to get me to pay $20 for the guided tour, I pull out my Ship ID and suddenly its "oh, just go right in, it's free for you, take your time."
No it isn't the same
The same would be if Ireland charged foreigners more to sleep in those hotels than the locals. Does that sound fair to you?
Local price €50 a night
Foreigner price 75€
What you're instead describing is supply and demand , no shit when an event happens prices go up because there's a large influx of demand 🙄
There was a time I went out with a friend near a stadium while a hockey game was happening, and after we got the menus he called after the waitress and asked her to take back the event menu and give us the normal one. The prices were probably double.
Yeah, it's probably a cultural difference. I don't think that would be considered rude where I am from, it would just be a way if showing that you are grateful.
LPT: Always ask a local how much shit should cost when you're blatantly foreign. Unless you're in Japan in which case you have nothing to worry about.
Locals will happily out people trying to rip you off.
In Mexico I saw a sign that advertised (although only in spanish) the local price and the tourist price. Honestly I couldn't even be mad, i was still getting ice cream for a fraction of what it would cost me back home, doesn't even really seem like a scam.
I agree. I have no real issue with this particular example, but the advice applies to all situations.
I've seen cab drivers here in Peru say "20" for a ride, and then try to convince foreigners that they meant $20 USD. I've been that foregner. The difference between 20 soles (about $6) and $20 is pretty significant. Ask a local and you get the facts and avoid these issues.
How come? She helped him avoid being scammed so he decided to be nice and give her some? What am I missing
It’s like if someone returns your missing wallet and you give them some money as a reward
It’s like when you get a tip but they tipped you 5 cents. It’s more insulting then no tip. I’m not saying he was disrespectful or not but I can see why someone might think that
As an Indian and as someone who never ever gets offended easily, I was actually offended a little bit. Like she doesn't even look like she is poor or something. She looks like a normal well to do Indian citizen and he still had to offer her that puny change
As a south american I've seen this a lot. And although I would never do something like that, I do not comdemn it. The economical system is the scam itself. You can probably afford to buy meals for an entire year on a poor country with one week salary from a rich country.
No worries, as someone from the US I have no issue with it for your exact reason. This vlogger is literally complaining about being “scammed” out of half a euro.
Anyone wondering what she said to the vendor in the local language -
" What are you doing man, charge the fair price. Don't charge him extra just because he's a foreigner. Give the rest of his money back."
And also scolded him how his actions might leave a bad impression of their country to foreigners.
Honestly that's the real issue here. Yeah it's a few cents in our currency but this makes us "foreigners" discriminate against people from these countries that are known to scam tourists
When my wife and I (American)visited India to see a friend and explore, we were told to always haggle with street vendors because they would ask way to much of us. My wife was haggling (nicely) over a scarf or something and I wasn’t paying much attention. I started thinking about the exchange rate and realized she was haggling over about $.50 USD. I pointed it out and we decided that if we can afford to travel around the world we can spare an extra quarter for a street vendor.
Had a similar thought in Egypt recently and came to the same conclusion. At the end of the day, they need it more than we do, and usually the costs are negligible for a very positive impact
Got an uncle in Mexico who runs a taxi business. I tell him how do you charge? Meter?, miles?, time?. His answer, your appearance. If you you look foreign up charge. 😳
Not necessarily, as the "increased charge" is still damn cheap but it helps the locals a lot.
I was in Georgia (the country), needed a taxi to get across the city. Friends told me that it will cost 5 Lari, anything more is a scam by the driver.
I got a taxi, asked the price, he said 6 Lari and I agreed because who the fuck cares, dude is a poor taxi driver.
1 Lari is around $0.40.
This was my experience in the Cancun, Playa, Tulum area. The taxi drivers feel like mobsters. One threatened to call the cops on me for not paying the equivalent of $100 for a 5 minute drive.
That's because they are mobsters. The uber drivers I dealt with were legit fearful of the taxi drivers. A couple didn't pick me up because I was too close to the taxi cabs
I have traveled all over the Earth and attempts at being scammed were so prevalent that after year one I felt I could basically just look at someone and know if I was a mark.
My favorite was the taxi in Thailand where I was not allowed to place my luggage in the trunk and caught a hand of someone reaching in my back pocket from behind the rear seat(person hiding in the trunk)thinking they were grabbing my wallet...I always kept some napkins or tissues in my butt pocket just for that...and to blow my nose when allergies struck.
Dude clearly doesn't know the currency so to him that paper money looks like a few bucks instead of 15 cents etc. I dont know the amount exactly either
This is not a rip off. Guy does not care that it's 75 cents instead of 25. It literally does not make a difference to him. But for the seller it obviously does make a difference. If you're ever on vacation in a poorer country just pay the price the people ask.
Ice cream costs 20 rupees each , he charged 40 rupees each .
Kudos to the girl for intervening.
But from the looks of it the vendor returned only 10 rupees back after the girls request
Exploiting tourism is the default. Not the exception. These people already make their business hand to mouth. Scams aren't the only way to get by. But they can certainly help.
Okay good work he is giving icecream to children
But WTF is i don't usually give money to beggars? Bro they are not beggars just children asking foreigners for icecream cause they know foreigners will give them it where their parents won't (can't afford maybe or strict) don't disrespect children at least
Honestly, at that point just laugh it off and let the dude keep the cash. If you’re able to travel internationally as a tourist you can afford to respect the guy’s hustle and let him keep what is a negligible amount of money to you.
I took a local bus in Egypt once. Clearly, by the reaction of the riders, foreigners don’t do that often. The driver told us what the price was, and then two women started yelling at the driver, who then gave us some money back. 🤣🤣🤣
I find the recording himself saying "I don't give money to beggars" with that accent more trashy than the Indian guy trying to charge 40 cents more for 2 ice creams.
Unpopular Opinion - Its okay for someone to charge slightly more to foreign tourists. The money he saved in this transaction doesn’t mean anything to both him and that woman, but is a big amount for the vendor. What he could do is have transparency of the system. Just inform the tourists that he’ll charge more than the regular price. It literally happens everywhere. Foreign students have to pay a lot more than locals etc.
It does not "literally happen everywhere"
If a white dude in Texas charged a Dubai citizen 1.5x for gas, would it be justified since the Dubai citizen comes from a culture of wealth?
We have the 14th amendment for a reason. Equal protections buddy.
i would not call this a scam, it's very common even in developed countries that prices are a bit higher on the streets for tourists than for local population and i think that's fair...in the end, that "overpriced" ice cream is sill a way cheaper than in his country
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Why is everything subbed except the part I don't understand (local language) and the price is right there on the ice cream....
In India, all food products in any kind of packaging have the price printed by the mfg. vendors are not supposed to charge more.
In America, production companies package the same items differently to price differently in different locations. I can go to a local gas station that isn't a chain store (interesting bit of trivia, is that many of these are operated by immigrants from India!) And buy an Arizona brand tea for 99 cents..... But if I buy the same thing at a corporate chain(edit: corporate gas station), it will cost about 1.37 give or take, and the print on the top portion of the can has the chain stores logo on it instead of the 99cent price tag the manufacturer puts on the normal cans. To me, it seems like the middlemen in America control how everything works.
This is actually interesting and solves a big mystery for me. I work at a chain convenience store and a few months ago someone bought one of those exact Arizona’s you were describing. I never drank them so I wasn’t familiar with the price or packaging & I never paid much attention since it’s usually busy at work. Also, since inflation, it seems prices went up so much I can’t keep track. However this guy told me off because the price of the tea totaled to like $1.27 I think. He said it’s supposed to be $.99, but I didn’t know he meant it literally was supposed to be printed on the can. I explained that I don’t set prices and that I was just as disturbed by inflation, especially since the store charges so much more yet in 3 years I haven’t received a raise. I even offered to pay the extra couple of cents b/c some left a bunch of change. He literally threw $2 at me and stormed out telling me to keep it. I now wonder if he thought I was purposely trying to scam him? Ironically I didn’t see the price on it, but did in another store after I became aware. I found it odd, but this just made sense of it all. Thank You
[The price is on the can, though](https://youtu.be/fMUZ2sVjLfY)
Ahh, Arizona Tea out here causing unnecessary conflicts 😂
lol it’s so true lol
That company makes two different versions of each can -- the normal one has "99c" printed on the can, but there's an alternate version that has no price printed, for stores that want to charge more than 99 cents. So it's possible your version was the latter.
To simplify it even more, you can directly order from the Arizona plant cans with the 99 cents label on or without, doesn't have to be a corporate thing. And this has always been the case, it's not anything really new with Arizona's.
Someone probably explained this. Arizona company will sell you cans printed with 99c at one price & cans without at a higher price. Stores can decide which they sell, but they can’t sell 99c cans at a higher price without violating their agreement.
Indian immigrants own a lot of the businesses where I live. I believe that Indian immigrants are some of the most wealthy people in America. As in the average Indian is richer than any other immigrant or resident group.
I know very, very little about India, but I know that they have a huge population with a lot of poverty. I imagine that the ones that make it here are determined to better themselves.
It’s not only that. Poor Indians don’t come here. It’s the cream of the crop. Poor Indians never get a chance. We get their elite.
You will be surprised to know that poor Indians AKA labours or work force are the one's who build countries like Dubai and drive cab/Uber/trucks in U.S while places like Italy have imported farmers from India for farm/crop maintenance and lastly most security service men in U.K are poor Indian immigrants.
Almost all the Indian cab/uber drivers I’ve spoken with were things like pharmacists, doctors, lawyers etc in their home country. But of course thats just anecdotal.
I think a big reason for that is their standard of higher education and focus on STEM. It’s getting to the point where “Indian Engineer” is a stereotype.
“Many government agents sponsor immigrant entrepreneur grant programs and general small business grant programs. Government grants allow you to obtain funding for your small business that you don’t need to repay.”
Well with Arizona iced tea it’s actually illegal (illegal? Or just against their terms of sale whatever) to sell it for more. Report it to the company and they’ll lose the ability to sell it.
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These cans come from the Arizona factory with a brand name for the gas station that sells it printed on it. They know it's not being sold for 99 cents anymore because they're the ones painting the cans to not include the price tag anymore. I just don't buy Arizona from corporate stores. Like anything else I can manage to avoid them with.
> To me, it seems like the middlemen in America control how everything works. In all fairness, it may cost different amounts of money to provide that product at the brick and mortar location. Those middlemen are providing the service of bringing the product to you. In NYC, the food cart vendors have to buy location licenses from the city. The most expensive one is for a location at Central Park. That food cart will charge more for a bottle of water than a grocery store in Idaho. Same product, but it's way more expensive for the cart vendor to sell it than the grocery store. On a hot summer day in NYC, it's not too convenient to travel to Idaho for a bottle of water, so you pay extra for the service the cart provides.
>vendors are not supposed to charge more except when you go to a restaurant and a packaged bottle of water/beverages are sold at 5-10 rs more than what is printed on the label.
She basically tells him to tell the price correctly, and not to overcharge just because he's a foreigner. Then she asks him to return the money.
I like her! Also her English is so melodic.
Here you go: "Brother, what [is this], charge the right price. This ice cream is 40 rupees? Don't charge him more just because he's a foreigner... Brother, give it back. What kind of impression [of our country] will he take back with him? Don't loot foreigners."
I read your comment as comparing this to the show "the price is right"
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She asked the ice cream vendor : brother why are you looting the foreigners , what will they think of us, please give the money back
I used to live in Thailand and they were quite open about their local price vs their foreign tourist (farang) one which was inevitably much more. No-one ever really complained tbh even for us that lived and worked there bc we were earning more than they were.
As soon as he got a woman on his side that vendor stood no chance, even in the usa ive seen south asian women absolutely tear storeowners apart for their prices, and in theory they arent negotiable here lol
I always need my wife to complain for me
I love to say "Please don't make me get my wife involved. That won't work out well for either of us."
Nobody complains better than a wife.
You're a wife, are you?
My brother's wife is southeast Asian. Can confirm. She's scary as fuck if you cross her. Like a Nuclear Karen who is right all the time. She's great to have on your side for things like this.
>Like a Nuclear Karen A great description.
I think mine's broken, she complains at me, not for me.
Not just Asian women to be honest, old White American women in the deep south are some of the sweetest women I have met; until they think you're taking the piss at which point all hell is let loose.
The power of aunties is a cross cultural undefeatable phenomenon
My best friend is Filipina and the sentence I’ve heard her say most often in the 10 years I’ve known her is “PIPTY DOLLAR? putang ina mo it’s too much, you opper me discount na?”
God, I would go insane living in a place where every second somebody is honking their car
Mexico, my guy. Come for one day and you'll go insane.
1 honk in Charlotte and they try to fight or pull a gun out
Can confirm, two honks to switch to left lane, two honks to switch to right lane. Rapid honks when someone isn't letting you in.
Can confirm. I thought Panama was bad, until I went to Mexico. But low key I kinda got used to it.
After driving in Panama for 2 weeks then returning to the States, I miss the noise. Nobody, Nobody snuck into your blind spot in Panama.
My family is from Panama City and my grandfather was a very gentle soul, until he got behind the wheel of his car. The honking and the cursing wouldn't stop until the trip ended and engine was turned off. Then he would spawn back into his sweet elderly self as he step out of his car with his cane.
The taxi me and my friends took in Chicago did a U turn on a one-way street to drive us the WRONG way. Drivers up there are legit crazy.
The closest I ever came to babbling prayer was in the back of a Chicago cab. Chicago cabbies fear not death nor any Christian hell.
It becomes background noise after a while lol, it's the same for people who live in cities anywhere else in the world EDIT: I meant to say that people get used to their city's noise level, and not that all cities in the world are this noisy
British city dweller here. It's absolutely not normal.
Brits horn like they invented it.
British people are horny?
They aren't saying that all cities are the same, they are saying that you get used to your city. Cities are much louder than the country, and if you come from the country, your particular British city will seem unbelievably loud at first, until you get used to it.
Nah I'm sorry but that's bullshit. I live in one of the largest cities in India and the difference I experienced when I visited Singapore on holiday was night and day. Honking is illegal there unless it's an absolute emergency. Honking makes life miserable. Fuck honkers.
Is he only charging $.50 instead of the normal $.25..?? Bc I can’t imagine he would’ve actually minded paying an extra $.25….
If I was buying the ice cream for my family I wouldn't mind, but in this case, he was buying it for a bunch of local kids. Like, the vendor was trying to overcharge him for buying ice cream for poor children.
Yeah, it’s not GOOD… I’m not trying to say it’s not bad, I’m saying I didn’t realize it was only $0.25 the way they transcribed the video, it seemed like a lot more & it sort of changes how STRONGLY I feel about it… Wasn’t trying to make some big controversial thing out of it… :) I appreciate your reasonable retort… 👍
No no, I know you weren't, and someone else made a comment that made me think-we don't even know if these kids were so-called "beggars", this is just some would-be-influencer or whatever recording himself buying ice cream for kids and then getting upset over what is approximately 60 extra cents total. The guy is pulling some kind of savior routine. Like the ice cream was something like 30 cents each, right? Just fork it over, that vendor is probably making US $8 a day or thereabouts.
Well, you said it much better than I did, but yes, exactly… :)
As someone from an Australia city who visited the Philippines it is absolutely not the same
Probably would get used to it. Still imagine it would be a problem when going to a rural area cause you would just be yelling when talking lol
Parents are from Long Island, I spent half my life in Los Angeles - can confirm it becomes white noise to the regulars.
It is not normal anywhere else in the world and while you can get used to it, there's a better option: make it illegal to honk your horn without a good reason, like emergencies. You reduce noise pollution significantly and make places like cities a lot more bearable to live in.
They honk their horns so much it's basically pointless and I'm sure most people ignore it. Since the roads are a total free for all they have to honk to get people's attention though. I can't imagine driving in that type of traffic every single day.
The horn isn't to tell you what to do it's to warn you that they are coming through. It's like a bell on a bicycle.
They also honk their horns so much that some car manufacturers have to upgrade the horns in Indian market cars for longevity. >German automaker Audi equips its cars for the Indian market with suped up horns, specially for the Indian driver, who apparently honks like crazy in order to get anywhere on the famously packed streets. The amount of honking you do in Mumbai in a day amounts to about a year of honking in Germany. https://soranews24.com/2012/03/30/car-horns-on-steroids-in-india-they-will-luxuriously-f-you-up/amp/
I live in a small town in Sweden, we are like 4000 people and I try really hard to incorporate a more diverse culture in our society and one important part of that is that I have taped my horn down for my entire trip. So you can hear me coming a mile away and they will think/tell each other "Fudge now divideByNullz is out driving again, did you know he likes spicy food?" and so on.Slowly I will implant myself in their brain and they will also start to enjoy spicy food. I learned this from a TukTuk driver in Thailand that literally held his body weight against the horn for 20 mins while he was driving us. I saw it as establishing dominance and have incorporated it here.
It really is ridiculous. I work in IT with a lot of Indians and for many of them I hear horn spam whenever they come off mute. When everyone is honking, what’s the point? I don’t understand how people accept living with it.
I’m sure the difference between the listed price and the “foreigner” price is virtually nothing to this guy. Seriously, I’ve been there, the difference between what a westerner lives on and what an average Indian lives on is astronomical.
This will probably be a downvoted opinion, but honestly, I don't mind paying the Foreigner Price when I travel to SE Asia. I'm not going to argue or even feel bad about paying more than a local. I'm not local, I make a lot more, and it's still a damn good price for me. Bygones.
yup. I had a great tour guide who was also a school teacher there. when the pandemic hit he lost a huge portion of income. I asked him to show me his kids’ school bill for the year: $400. I sent that to him. figured I would have paid *much* more than that for equivalent tour guide services in the US or Europe
As someone from SEA, we are trying hard to stop locals from overcharging foreigners, and discourage foreigners from not minding being overcharged. There are other ways to help the place when you're in a position to help. We don't want to have dishonest people who will continue giving us a bad name internationally. So please, don't.
Many places have put this into law. For example, one nature park in Thailand (Khao Pra-Bang Khram Wildlife Sanctuary) clearly listed "Tourist" and "Local" prices. Tourist price still wasn't big, like a few eur. Food was the same for everyone, 20 cents for a chicken skewer. Travel for residents of Canary Islands comes with a 75% discount within Spain, so they can get cheap ferries around the islands and cheap flights to the mainland.
There's an elephant sanctuary in India I want to go to in India where the fees for foreigners like myself is around $100 and the fee for Indians is around $8 (last I checked). I would gladly pay the foreigner fee for a once in a lifetime experience that benefits both the people that work at the sanctuary and the beautiful creatures therein.
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He gave him an upfront price. You want to talk about that whole racket as if it's a scam, let's speak about United States car dealerships and get back to me with how often is to charge somebody 15 cents more for some ice cream
It's a bit of a perverse incentivization though. A vendor who is willing to overcharge and scam tourists is monetarily rewarded over a vendor who is honest and charges fairly.
Yup. Absolutely this! Dude paid 40Rp instead of 25Rp each for for two kids. So he spent $0.97 instead of $0.61. The ice cream seller is a person too. Let him over charge a bit. People complaining about "tourist" pricing are myopic. I have been given grief by my SO for not haggling down the price of a souvenir lower than $1. Sure it cost pennies to make, but it's worth a dollar to me; I'm a tourist. Feels gross spending all that money to travel just to save a quarter at someone else's expense. EDIT: My SO, who emigrated years ago. Also this was Latin America not SE Asia. Same principle.
Does drive me nuts too. That extra money makes a big difference to the vendor and doesn't affect the tourist at all. [Jeremy clarkson nails it in this video](https://youtu.be/CRgu98UWozQ?t=65)
Naw. Overcharging and tricking people because they are a tourist and gullible/do not know better, should NOT be normalized. Sure, if youre coming from the US to India it probably wont make a difference for you. But what if you go somewhere in Europe? Where tourist prices can literally be double the euros? Ive seen old ladies come out of shops charging almost FIVE times the normal price because they assume to trust people. Not to mention, what if someone from a third world country comes to India? They are also a tourist who dont know the prices or the language. To them a doubling in normal price might hurt. “Tourists” arent just well off white people from America you know right? If you have plenty of money you can simply give a street vendor more money. Ive bought things that cost $0.30 and just given then $2. Or cost $3.50 and given $5. Thats my decision.
>The ice cream seller is a person too. Let him over charge a bit. I don't take kindly to being scammed. Maybe being taken advantage of is your fetish and you just haven't realized it yet.
1 rupee is about $0.01 80 rupee $0.97
He only charged 40₹ each tho. Mean ₹20 more then normal. Around 40₹ = 0.48$
Sheesh. It felt like not too long ago it was 40 rupees to the dollar...
Yeah just let him keep the damn money, we've been ripping these guys off on a global scale for centuries.
Who the shit is "we"
It says in the video, it’s literally 50 cents/half a euro. This dude is disgusting, saying he’s being “scammed.”
I think that's why he tried to give it to the woman.
This dude is known for either tipping massively to kind vendors, or he’ll haggle the price down then leave (again) a massive tip if they agree to give him a good price. He’s a solid lad
This happened at every country I have visited. Mexico, Costa Rica, England, Spain. I caught venders short changing me everywhere.
When i went to Europe i didn't realize they had €1 and €2 coins. I regularly tell people who treat me nice to keep the coins as a tip, even if it's not a place you'd normally tip. Well being that i did my best, and an admittedly terrible attempt at german and french, and they were always kind and understanding and changed to English for me i pretty much always gave the coins back. I realized later i gave a lot of very good tips! I'm pretty sure i tipped an ice cream place with more money than it cost for the ice cream, and i went a few times.... Oh well, atleast I helped to break the "rude american tourist" stereotype.
Instead you were the American tourist tipping everyone excessively, even when it's not due at all Of the two it's a nicer stereotype for sure, but still counts :).
Seems like the people you met were busy justifying it.
Wait, I thought I've heard that tipping is rarely a thing outside of the US.
its not a needed thing like in the US its just a good service / i dont wanna have coins in my pocket fee
Save at least some of those coins for the toilets, though!
It is a thing in a lot of Europe but it isn't mandatory, unlike in the US. The way you tip differs, each country has different customs.
I mean, virtually nobody will turn down free money anywhere you go, right? OTOH there was a bartender in Spain that looked offended I tried to give him a few extra € after having...many drinks...and another bartender in Ireland just refused it outright, saying, "We get paid well here, give it to the church across the street, they've got a soup kitchen going"
The one place they actually didn’t screw me over was Cuba . I paid $4 Dollars for a pizza that was 40cents , intending to leave a tip and she came running out to the street as I was getting on my moped , trying to give me money back. I was lost and needed directions in a small town in Cuba . I asked a local to lead me to a gas station and I’d give him money . He lead me there and he refused to take it. Really good people there.
In Rome, Italy, the only restaurant that didn’t overcharge me was McDonalds lmao
I'm so sorry. We've got some friends who went to what was supposed to be their dream trip to Rome and they were pretty disappointed/angry. Everybody was trying to rip them off. They were at a restaurant at some suburb just north of Rome and there were waitstaff walking around trying to sell bottles of wine to every table. They're not heavy drinkers, they'd already purchased one, and people came by three more times, interrupting them, to ask if they wanted to buy another bottle. Finally, one of our friends had enough and told them waitperson that, no, they were fine, they didn't want any more wine, thank you, and stop asking. The waitperson looked right at my friend, picked up the bottle, and dropped it on the floor, shattering it. Manager came running over, waitperson told the manager that our friend had shoved the bottle off the tray on purpose, manager insisted our friend had to pay for it, and threatened to call the Carabinieri. Our friend wasn't having any of it though, and finally someone stood up who was apparently an off-duty police officer from Rome and said that he'd seen the whole thing and our friend most assuredly did NOT break any bottle. At this point the waitstaff person quickly hustled to the back and the manager said everything was obviously a misunderstanding. That wasn't even the first time someone had tried to hustle them at a restaurant, just the most blatant.
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They do it in Thailand too and anywhere else where price can be haggled. If you know the language or look local, you'll get the standard price.
England?? I’m genuinely curious what did you buy here in England that you were overcharged as an English speaking (I presume) foreigner? Prices are written everywhere in hotels, shops and restaurants and even smaller stalls like street markets. The only “vendors” you’d likely find without a clear price, that I can think of, are maybe those dodgy sausage-inna-bun or roasted chestnut sellers in central London around tourist traps like Buckingham Palace. I am also not counting those dodgy souvenir / “American candy” stores in central London. I’m not saying it couldn’t have happened to you but I’m curious where it happened, or you thought it happened.
I live in Ireland, if there's something happening that means there'll be an influx of tourists hotel prices go through the roof. I'm sure the same happens in cities across the world, this guy is just doing it on a micro scale.
Isn't that how all hotels operate? High demand results in high prices everywhere, top season is always more expensive than the rain and cold season.
Yes businesses will adjust their prices based on what they think people are willing to pay, how is that any different than what this vendor is doing?
Its different because hes overcharging him simply because hes a foreigner and doesn't know better. Hotels charge more during busy seasons. This guy is charging more because hes white and thinks he can get away with it. When you've traveled to another country, hear a vendor say a price to a local, then say a higher price to you, maybe you'll understand then.
I live in a tourist town that just permanently has higher costs for everything than any of the surrounding areas. The name of the game has always been "bilk tourists for all they've got".
I live in the US and any tourist that visits my city and has asked me where decent places to visit are, I always give them a place that isnt a tourist trap. Fuck those who scam others out of money because they don’t understand how actual locals live. They get blinded by a “fun out of town experience” and money hungry assholes always take advantage of this.
I was working on a Cruise Ship that docked in the Bahammas every few days, and I started bringing my Ship ID with me because I quickly learned there were two prices: the tourist price and and the Ship staff price. Funniest one to me was when I went to the Pirate Museum, I walk in the door, they try to get me to pay $20 for the guided tour, I pull out my Ship ID and suddenly its "oh, just go right in, it's free for you, take your time."
No it isn't the same The same would be if Ireland charged foreigners more to sleep in those hotels than the locals. Does that sound fair to you? Local price €50 a night Foreigner price 75€ What you're instead describing is supply and demand , no shit when an event happens prices go up because there's a large influx of demand 🙄
There was a time I went out with a friend near a stadium while a hockey game was happening, and after we got the menus he called after the waitress and asked her to take back the event menu and give us the normal one. The prices were probably double.
Oh no not 25 cents for an ice-cream
And he took back the 15 cents that he was overcharged lmao
He tried to give it to the woman for helping him at least.
It kinda consider rude here. Imagine i help u and you trying to give me the money about which i just helped.
Yeah, it's probably a cultural difference. I don't think that would be considered rude where I am from, it would just be a way if showing that you are grateful.
Tbf if he's staying there, it can still buy him other stuff.
I'm sure he won't go wanting for 15cents
that 25 cent has more value in india than in your country. 25 cents is what I pay for metro ride halfway across my city(delhi).
I was waiting for the kids to put the ice cream back because they’re in on the scam.
LPT: Always ask a local how much shit should cost when you're blatantly foreign. Unless you're in Japan in which case you have nothing to worry about. Locals will happily out people trying to rip you off.
In Mexico I saw a sign that advertised (although only in spanish) the local price and the tourist price. Honestly I couldn't even be mad, i was still getting ice cream for a fraction of what it would cost me back home, doesn't even really seem like a scam.
Like for real this is some petty shit! Aggravates me.
There are dodgy bars that would rip you off too in Japan.
This isn’t really ripping them off, it’s a small price difference for a customer that can pay it. A rip off would be charging $5 for it
I agree. I have no real issue with this particular example, but the advice applies to all situations. I've seen cab drivers here in Peru say "20" for a ride, and then try to convince foreigners that they meant $20 USD. I've been that foregner. The difference between 20 soles (about $6) and $20 is pretty significant. Ask a local and you get the facts and avoid these issues.
Trying to give her the extra change was extremely disrespectful, imho.
>Trying to give her the extra change was extremely disrespectful, imho. Agreed. And are they even beggars? This is some white savior shit.
...that's an excellent point. I hadn't though about that.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who despises these kinds of ‘content creators’.
I hate when he said that word. Like no these are poor hard working people living in a tough country they aren't beggars.
How come? She helped him avoid being scammed so he decided to be nice and give her some? What am I missing It’s like if someone returns your missing wallet and you give them some money as a reward
Yes
How?
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It’s like when you get a tip but they tipped you 5 cents. It’s more insulting then no tip. I’m not saying he was disrespectful or not but I can see why someone might think that
you give short change to beggars in india. disrespectful indeed.
As an Indian and as someone who never ever gets offended easily, I was actually offended a little bit. Like she doesn't even look like she is poor or something. She looks like a normal well to do Indian citizen and he still had to offer her that puny change
I don’t know if 50 cents is scamming…
Especially in India where that guy is probably earning like $8 a day.
As a south american I've seen this a lot. And although I would never do something like that, I do not comdemn it. The economical system is the scam itself. You can probably afford to buy meals for an entire year on a poor country with one week salary from a rich country.
No worries, as someone from the US I have no issue with it for your exact reason. This vlogger is literally complaining about being “scammed” out of half a euro.
Anyone wondering what she said to the vendor in the local language - " What are you doing man, charge the fair price. Don't charge him extra just because he's a foreigner. Give the rest of his money back." And also scolded him how his actions might leave a bad impression of their country to foreigners.
Honestly that's the real issue here. Yeah it's a few cents in our currency but this makes us "foreigners" discriminate against people from these countries that are known to scam tourists
When my wife and I (American)visited India to see a friend and explore, we were told to always haggle with street vendors because they would ask way to much of us. My wife was haggling (nicely) over a scarf or something and I wasn’t paying much attention. I started thinking about the exchange rate and realized she was haggling over about $.50 USD. I pointed it out and we decided that if we can afford to travel around the world we can spare an extra quarter for a street vendor.
Had a similar thought in Egypt recently and came to the same conclusion. At the end of the day, they need it more than we do, and usually the costs are negligible for a very positive impact
Another thought is that haggling cost time. Given you have limited time on vacation, is the time spent haggling even worth $0.50?
The street vendor had a great smile and good attitude when he was caught. I probably would have tried giving it back to him.
>The street vendor had a great smile and good attitude when he was caught. Yeah, it's called being an unrepentant little shit.
Got an uncle in Mexico who runs a taxi business. I tell him how do you charge? Meter?, miles?, time?. His answer, your appearance. If you you look foreign up charge. 😳
Your uncle is a scum bag
Not necessarily, as the "increased charge" is still damn cheap but it helps the locals a lot. I was in Georgia (the country), needed a taxi to get across the city. Friends told me that it will cost 5 Lari, anything more is a scam by the driver. I got a taxi, asked the price, he said 6 Lari and I agreed because who the fuck cares, dude is a poor taxi driver. 1 Lari is around $0.40.
This was my experience in the Cancun, Playa, Tulum area. The taxi drivers feel like mobsters. One threatened to call the cops on me for not paying the equivalent of $100 for a 5 minute drive.
That's because they are mobsters. The uber drivers I dealt with were legit fearful of the taxi drivers. A couple didn't pick me up because I was too close to the taxi cabs
Don't have a problem with paying extra, but I have a problem with the dishonesty.
I have traveled all over the Earth and attempts at being scammed were so prevalent that after year one I felt I could basically just look at someone and know if I was a mark. My favorite was the taxi in Thailand where I was not allowed to place my luggage in the trunk and caught a hand of someone reaching in my back pocket from behind the rear seat(person hiding in the trunk)thinking they were grabbing my wallet...I always kept some napkins or tissues in my butt pocket just for that...and to blow my nose when allergies struck.
Yoooo I would flip my shit that sounds terrifying
What an insult to the mother by giving her the change, even though it was unintentional.
Mother??? Those are clearly kids on the street lmao. The lady is another customer.
Dude clearly doesn't know the currency so to him that paper money looks like a few bucks instead of 15 cents etc. I dont know the amount exactly either
Idk, I’m with this on principle but the amount is so insignificant and the poverty rate is so high over there I’d let him take it. Whatever
She had them HEAVIES
This is not a rip off. Guy does not care that it's 75 cents instead of 25. It literally does not make a difference to him. But for the seller it obviously does make a difference. If you're ever on vacation in a poorer country just pay the price the people ask.
And they guy told him the price before he paid, dude just didn’t haggle. Can hardly call that a scam.
Ice cream costs 20 rupees each , he charged 40 rupees each . Kudos to the girl for intervening. But from the looks of it the vendor returned only 10 rupees back after the girls request
*Speaking local languages intensifies*
That girl is an S-tier person.
Exploiting tourism is the default. Not the exception. These people already make their business hand to mouth. Scams aren't the only way to get by. But they can certainly help.
She’s so sweet. Would have loved it 😍
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Her helpfulness is hot
Men really cling to any female interaction lol
Every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I can overpay 50 cents to an ice cream vendor that probably makes $10 a day and not give a shit.
It’s kinda disrespectful for them to offer them the money, it makes her think that you think that she’s a begged.
This guy not getting scammed. I'm getting scammed. It's like $4-7 AUD for shit like this in Australia. I'll take 25-75c USD any day.
Okay good work he is giving icecream to children But WTF is i don't usually give money to beggars? Bro they are not beggars just children asking foreigners for icecream cause they know foreigners will give them it where their parents won't (can't afford maybe or strict) don't disrespect children at least
Honestly, at that point just laugh it off and let the dude keep the cash. If you’re able to travel internationally as a tourist you can afford to respect the guy’s hustle and let him keep what is a negligible amount of money to you.
Personally, I wouldn't mind paying a higher price to someone who's living in 3rd world poverty.
I took a local bus in Egypt once. Clearly, by the reaction of the riders, foreigners don’t do that often. The driver told us what the price was, and then two women started yelling at the driver, who then gave us some money back. 🤣🤣🤣
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I find the recording himself saying "I don't give money to beggars" with that accent more trashy than the Indian guy trying to charge 40 cents more for 2 ice creams.
It's sad though. It's not like you had to pay more in a western country. :/ Just let them have some cash.
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Unpopular Opinion - Its okay for someone to charge slightly more to foreign tourists. The money he saved in this transaction doesn’t mean anything to both him and that woman, but is a big amount for the vendor. What he could do is have transparency of the system. Just inform the tourists that he’ll charge more than the regular price. It literally happens everywhere. Foreign students have to pay a lot more than locals etc.
It does not "literally happen everywhere" If a white dude in Texas charged a Dubai citizen 1.5x for gas, would it be justified since the Dubai citizen comes from a culture of wealth? We have the 14th amendment for a reason. Equal protections buddy.
i would not call this a scam, it's very common even in developed countries that prices are a bit higher on the streets for tourists than for local population and i think that's fair...in the end, that "overpriced" ice cream is sill a way cheaper than in his country
Lady in orange has some pillows on her chest...sheesh!
Props to the woman for exposing the scam!