In Reply to: Respect posted by GaryD on Wednesday, 24. June 2009 at 11:40 Bali Time:
ripped off by the shop owners?
It was a real eye opener to my 14 year old recently. We had successfully and respectfully negotiated a price for something (everyone happy with the price and all smiles - cant remember what now), when in walked some Korean people who did not bargain. They bought the same thing as we did, maybe T shirts or something and paid 100,000's of rupiahs more than we did. Son was about to say something but I shushed him out of the shop. In that event, whose side should we be on? The hapless customer or the merchant who just made the deal of a century?