Comments on: Things I hate 1: Nigerian styled pricing

By: bighead

bighead — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:27:54 +0000

My guy have you ever been cheated? Don’t always be fooled by pity face o! But its gud to have a heart anyway

By: dami

dami — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:22:32 +0000

I have to agree with ri…since you feel so badly about this, why not start the charity at home and make sure in all your dealings you pay the cost price or more and you allocate the amount of your income you feel comfortable with to your domestic help?
I really dont think its anyone’s place to be so judgemental especially over how other people choose to allocate their resources(so you automatically knew that the igbo guy was a womanizer??)or what? or the fact that your friend haggled (whether with phonetics or pidgin!)with the market women makes a terrible person?
I kind of understand your point in that we could go to numetro to watch a N2500 movie and not want to give the beggars on rollerskates N20…still how eac person chooses to spend their money is entirely up to them…o your bit and keep moving abeg

By: trae_z

trae_z — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:08:44 +0000

@Agaracha: na so we see am oh…the good thing is that we’re used to it. it’d probably freak a foreigner out.

@rj:the point looks perfectly clear to me. but all the same let me reiterate.

1)in a lot of cases the seller sells below the cost price because it’s better to sell and break even than to forever keep waiting for a profit.

2)in a lot of other cases people are just plain stingy. here’s an example: a man spending millions on the up keep of his Alsatian dog but paying his driver a very meager salary and bargaining for chewing gum like a 10 year old.

By: rj

rj — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:03:42 +0000

Hmm…so whats ur point? Are u saying people should buy things at the price the seller says just because he/she looks poorer than the buyer? I didnt get ur first example either, if ur friend wants her fish at N60, she should be able to get it at that price. Of course everyone is trying to make a living, its every man for himself and god for us all. If the goods were really worth the price being asked, then you wont find other traders trying to sell it cheaper, why? because they would be seeling at a loss. So please if you go to the market, and they give u a price for a good and haggling is encouraged, u better take advantage of it. because u have the money doesnt mean you should dash it out, afterall isnt everyone working hard for their money? if we all had money bearing trees, wont we all be rich? If i no want give aboki my 50 naira, na by force?

By: Agaracha

Agaracha — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:40:08 +0000

Naija sef you have to bargain everything in the market ..its very tiresome !