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[mindmetoo]

There's the Japanese tourist price. The Western tourist price. And the local Korean price. The prices go from highest to lowest. If you're going to buy anything in Korea and can't pass as a local, get the most hard bitten ajumma to buy it for you. Just make sure you hide behind a pillar or something.

I remember once I had a Korean woman friend get a price on an inkjet printer. They quoted her one price and wrote it on a business card. When I went back the next day to buy it, the printer was suddenly $30 more expensive. For me.

Last weekend I bought a computer microphone for $5. My GF bought the same microphone for $3.

I went to a used appliance dealer to price a fridge. The fridge was $200 for me. I told my school's whitey wrangler the fridge. When she went to buy it, it was $170 for her.

Got any similar stories?

[Julius]

First words to remember: "Thats too expensive", before making a show of walking over to the next stall in view and checking out the same item. Get their competitive edge going.

[captain kirk]

Yup, I do, unfortunately. On 'motorbike sales street' and at a certain shop I asked about the price of synthetic oil and lithium chain grease and the price was thirty percent more than the same thing in a back street in Seoul. The beaver faced grinning proprieter kept seeming politely aghast that such prices beyond the flat edge of the earth could be possible. But I said yes, sucking limes, I'd managed to get there and that was the price, without risk of scurvy. Wish I was Korean. Ben Stiller movie. Wakes up Korean...

[mindmetoo]

[HapKi]

bba ga ji was another.

[jajdude]

Ah, once, several years ago, I negotiated a girl from 60,000 down to 30,000 won

What a nice hour that was.....




Sorry, but it is true.

[Riposte]

[jajdude]

[own_king]

[Juregen]

I got one of these pocket Korean/English translators from 150.000 to 90.000, in less then half an hour.....

Just don't ever take the first price they give to you.