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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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Getting back on thread-
Who's the "cheap basta*d" here?. Everyone's pounding this guy (including me) for selling a pile of magazines, criticizing his wares and "high" asking price. Finally, we talk him down to free? Laogaiguk-clicking on his post, you must have shown some interest in the matter. 17,000 too much, you thought? Where are you gonna go for cheaper in Korea? You also expect an apt. to be furnished with previous tenants junk when they move in? There's a big difference between a $500 bike and a pile of used mags.
Me thinks the buyers are the cheap ones here, not the seller. |
I show almost no interest in most of the posts I read. I am a public school teacher with nothing to do  |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| My all time favorite was the opened package of Taco seasoning. |
Really???? You made my morning with that Ripley's Believe it or not, fact.
What's next, gently used panties....?????
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Hey, I'll truck my ass halfway across Seoul for that!
Seriously, not everyone here lives in hogwon provided housing, so it's not necessarily a given that anyone can just leave their stuff "for the next teacher". |
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Alexandra
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Seriously, not everyone here lives in hogwon provided housing, so it's not necessarily a given that anyone can just leave their stuff "for the next teacher". |
Not to mention that there are schools where the school staff checks the flat before the new teacher moves in, and dumps the "junk" the previous teacher left behind. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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(now for the idiots that are going to say he should not be advertising on the board. First off, I have been on this board probably before you even graduated uni. Secondly, I save people lots and lots of money so it is a nice thing to have this kind of information on here. It's the same thing as someone else writing about a business but you are getting it straight from the horse's mouth so there is no misinformation) |
Don't worry. We have lots of respect for what you're trying to do with your bookstore. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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(now for the idiots that are going to say he should not be advertising on the board. First off, I have been on this board probably before you even graduated uni. Secondly, I save people lots and lots of money so it is a nice thing to have this kind of information on here. It's the same thing as someone else writing about a business but you are getting it straight from the horse's mouth so there is no misinformation) |
Don't worry. We have lots of respect for what you're trying to do with your bookstore. |
Seconded.
I don't have any problem with a member advertising their business on this board in a limited way. As Chiaa does. Especially if that business is a good bookstore now with a cheap magazine service.
It's something everybody can use and isn't controversial. Unlike the religious evangelists who, thankfully, seem to have got the hint and left us alone. For awhile. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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I like the system that sort of naturally evolved in the waygook building at my uni.
We have a window on the second floor that everyone has to go by to come or go from the building. If you have something you don't want or need anymore, and it is of modest value (often books, magazines, seasonings, clothes, etc.) you leave it there. If you can use it, take it. I got a really nice rug there, room size, and various other things. In return I have put a lot of things there myself, including books.
Sometimes weird things appear on the window sill, like a half used zucchini, a half bottle of coke, and absolutely unusable other stuff. But in general it is a great practice, and, like I said, it evolved spontaneously. It becomes pretty crowded at moving out time, but everything goes eventually- I think that after a few days the building ajuma takes the remainders someplace. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
(now for the idiots that are going to say he should not be advertising on the board. First off, I have been on this board probably before you even graduated uni. Secondly, I save people lots and lots of money so it is a nice thing to have this kind of information on here. It's the same thing as someone else writing about a business but you are getting it straight from the horse's mouth so there is no misinformation) |
Don't worry. We have lots of respect for what you're trying to do with your bookstore. |
Seconded.
I don't have any problem with a member advertising their business on this board in a limited way. As Chiaa does. Especially if that business is a good bookstore now with a cheap magazine service.
It's something everybody can use and isn't controversial. Unlike the religious evangelists who, thankfully, seem to have got the hint and left us alone. For awhile. |
Right. Chiaa mainly comes here to chat. Besides, he's offered more than his share of useful info to the newbies and wouldbe business owners on this board. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| chiaa wrote: |
(now for the idiots that are going to say he should not be advertising on the board. First off, I have been on this board probably before you even graduated uni. Secondly, I save people lots and lots of money so it is a nice thing to have this kind of information on here. It's the same thing as someone else writing about a business but you are getting it straight from the horse's mouth so there is no misinformation) |
Don't worry. We have lots of respect for what you're trying to do with your bookstore. |
Seconded.
I don't have any problem with a member advertising their business on this board in a limited way. As Chiaa does. Especially if that business is a good bookstore now with a cheap magazine service.
It's something everybody can use and isn't controversial. Unlike the religious evangelists who, thankfully, seem to have got the hint and left us alone. For awhile. |
Right. Chiaa mainly comes here to chat. Besides, he's offered more than his share of useful info to the newbies and wouldbe business owners on this board. |
My thoughts too.  |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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You wanna hear cheap:
"phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database"
I'm sure that the advertisers here were charged a fee commensurate to the traffic that this board gets, which is huge. What the advertiser doesn't know is that the traffic is also gridlocked and that the ad isn't getting the looks that company has been told that it would get. |
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kitekid
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: usually at http://www.expatkorea.com/
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Alexandra
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:14 am Post subject: |
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These are tampons with applicators.
Either you're a man, or maybe you just don't read the box? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: |
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That was a fun little exchange!  |
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kitekid
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: usually at http://www.expatkorea.com/
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not quite over yet, JongnoGuru 
'cause see i think it's kind of a CHEAP shot when folks on here say stuff in the rok isn't available when it is.
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These are tampons with applicators.
Either you're a man, or maybe you just don't read the box? |
not a guy, and i can definitely read.
how about these; more your speed?
http://www.natracare.co.kr/servlet/ntr.pro.FNtrDs_Tam_a |
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Alexandra
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:35 am Post subject: |
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Ah well, once again it is a link to tampons with applicator... I assume you meant this: http://www.natracare.co.kr/servlet/ntr.pro.FNtrDs_Tam_d
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'cause see i think it's kind of a CHEAP shot when folks on here say stuff in the rok isn't available when it is.
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I never thought that believing what my helpful Korean friends keep on telling me is 'CHEAP', especially when the information was confirmed by my gynaecologist.
But call me cheap, if it makes you happy. I'm grateful for your help anyway. Thank you very much for the information. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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I met this Canadian woman who had been in Seoul for about 2 years and never heard of What the Book. Hard to believe but there it is.
What the Book isn't a fly by night op. He provides a damn needed service and I don't think anyone who has shopped there would begrudge him a regular "what's new at what the book" type post to keep the newbies aware there exists a second hand bookstore market in Seoul. |
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