Thai math

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, AustinRacing said:

You paid too much for second hand Nike. Incidentally, the yoghurt price drop could be related to expiration date. 

Nothing to do with expiry date. Different brands. Expiry date drops are like 50%.

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:

You paid too much for second hand Nike. Incidentally, the yoghurt price drop could be related to expiration date. 

What would you have paid?

[Harrisfan]

On 2/21/2025 at 1:28 PM, Lacessit said:

The fashionistas discard their apparel after one or two outings.

 

I found a pair of Nike trainers that fitted me, in one of the secondhand shops, a few years ago. I still wear them, very comfortable. Almost brand new, apart from a scuff mark.

 

I paid 1800 baht for them. When I looked them up, the new RRP was 8000 baht.

I paid 1200 baht for new ones in a discount reject store.

[Njoku]

I make my own yogurt these days, if you think marketing takes a new turn in Thailand how about these examples, one very well known major appliance and flooring, well home centre is currently having promos, we call them specials back home, in the market for some goods as building a house, they had a sink one of the "known" brands on sale/promo for around 8000, reduced from something like 26,000, now I been in and out of enough shops including that one to know that sink has not been reduced but the so called pre promo price inflated X3 at least, I called the sales assistant out on this, she just gave me a sheepish smile, somethings have been reduced for sure but hardly enough to make me want to jump cause I will save a bucket of money, but again enough items had inflated pre promo tickets attached, about the only thing that was genuine that I saw was a island bar range hood reduced to 16,000, which I had seen 3 months back for somewhere in the high 20's with the pre promo price saying 55,000, I do recall when I originally seen this hood in the 20s as they have a limited range here and what they have is pricey which is 50 plus thousand most of the time, and I need one...

 

A well known Taiwanese fan maker and sales has several shops in BKK went to one to check out some fans at Mega Bagna, there a bit on the pricey side but I clearly want two fans that will turn slowly for the living area, priced a model im interested in comes in at around 11600 each, jumped online last week thinking to order on line, met with a welcome sign saying promo time is here, the fan I was interested in was on sale for 13600 or something like that...

 

It pays to shop often and not buy just observe, it gives you a clear idea which stores to stay out of as well..

 

And one very Big Supermarket here I have a grip with, same item found in 3 or 4 places in there large stores so if out of stock in one section you gotta go crawling all over the god dam place to see if its elsewhere there, then not taking out of date stock of the shelves, sometimes reduce pricing sometimes not, a few times pick some think like a bag of shredded cheese only to find its off when I open it back home, this week some sealed veggies..in the process of going off..

 

Marketing in this country. I shake my head, one time wanted to buy an item they tried to entice me to buy the package that was on promo, said I dont need or want the other items, "ho you can sell", really, sometimes I think Thais get sucked in to easy.