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Originally Posted by GeMiNiZzzzZzz
Of course, we have to respect TS in this thread ,and other TS in other thread's effort, they are the few who can get the max fun at the min rate, but not everyone gets the same after putting the efforts...
Commoners pay $1 for the cup of coffee, superstar soccer players paid $100 for the same coffee, that's life, living in the practical world...
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Yeah, I agree. Remembering I read something from a post in here that taxi cost 40K rupiah per hour. So I decide to quote a taxi driver 40K rupiah from Nagoya Hill back to my hotel which is 5-7 mins drive away on a Saturday night. The driver simply give me an attitude... "80K rupiah, take it or leave it" face and drive away, around the malls again.
Then another trip on a Wednesday night, same place, same destination, I waved down a taxi within the mall area. Haven't even quote him, he wind down window and invite me in, point me to meter and say meter rate. Afraid this taxi will go merry go round in Batam, I quoted him 40K again, he happily accepted.
Similar experience I had with money changer.
Saturday rate was 9500 / sgd while rate changes to 9600 / sgd on Wednesday at the same place. Bank exchange rate didn't have much changes on rupiah between both days.
(Note: Some experience guys here can get 9700 or 9800 / sgd)
I think the money changer rate, the cost of transport or even other local service suppliers used the supply and demand curves theory.
Peak days of the week: more tourists than local service suppliers, therefore the advantage is with the local service suppliers, they can quote their price higher.
Non peak days of the week: more local service suppliers than tourists, therefore the advantage is with us. We can quote a lower, reasonable price favorable to us.
Hee Hee...
