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Browsing entries posted on May 2007
Sorry, We’re out of 1 Cent Coins.
I find some shops in Miri are ridiculously making easy money of the customer using one same reason.
Just few weeks ago, I went to the usual shop that I always go to buy my lunch. And they have lately imposed a 5% service tax on all their foods sold. I bought economy rice, priced at RM3.68 include the tax. I gave the lady RM4.00 and she gave me back 30 cents. I looked at her and ask, “Where’s my 2 cents?”. And guess what she answered?
“Sorry, we’re out of 1 cent coins. You have 8 cents or not?”
Then I looked at her with a “WTF expression”. I am dumbfucked with her reason. Out of 1 cent coins? Are they doing business or what? Next time I will open up a shop, and when my customer pay with RM50 bills for an item cost like RM10, then I can say to my customer them that we are out of RM10 bills. Hopefully then my customer will say keep the change. And there, I have RM40 extra profit.
Just last week I went there for another takeaway. And yes, they are out of 1 cent coins again. And this is not the only shop that is always out of 1 cent coins. The big hypermarket in Miri used to have this problem, but lately they’re doing fine with stocking up their 1 cent coins. This 1 cent coins issue even affected the Fast Food chains like Sugarbun or KFC sometimes. But there are shops that are out of 1 cent coins EVERY time I go there.
Let’s say there are 50 customers that does not get their 2 cents back. That means the shop can get RM1 per day, which is RM30 per month, of which an extra “keep the change” profit around RM360 per year. Eh, easy profit leh. If you have more customer and you absorbed all the extra they paid, it’s easy business isn’t it?
Why does those shops lack of 1 cent coins? Bank Negara didn’t produce enough coins is it? Or is it the business to be blame for not stocking up their 1 cent coins? Or it is the ridiculous pricing set by the business and the 5% tax that causes the price to be in these ridiculous figure?
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Top 5 People to Avoid in this World
You know what’s the top 5 people to avoid in this world? Here it is:
5. A Direct Sales Marketer.
4. A Direct Sales Marketer that calls you.
3. A Direct Sales Marketer that calls you and ask you out.
2. A Direct Sales Marketer that calls you and ask you out for a drink in a coffee shop.
1. A Direct Sales Marketer that does everything the “Top 5 People to Avoid in this World” repetitively, almost weekly.
Lately I have been harassed by a so called friend of mine. My other friends that knows her too well told me to avoid her calls. They told me not to ever go yum cha with her alone. I got dragged by her to a so called “A Story of a Successful Man” thingy, and now she ask me out because she want to do some so called catching up. Since it’s been a while, so I dumbly went out to yum cha with her.
That’s when the nightmare start. At first, we DID do the catching up, like asking each other how are we doing, how’s life, what’s up, what’s down and what not. Somehow, she try to drag her time for like one hour plus, and that’s when her partner comes in. When her friend joined us, I can really feel the “Buy my stuff! Buy my stuff!” aura. And I was right, her friend did brought us a product. And my friend did the product promoting. I believe that friend of hers is my friend’s upline.
It was a dietary supplement. This food supplement is taken by the current world record 100m sprint holder, Asafa Powell. It is said that he took this supplement before he break the record.
Well yeah, like I care. It’s not cheap. Priced at RM100 plus, I can’t afford it. I don’t plant money tree. I am a student with monthly allowance of less than RM100. And yet, she wanted me to buy the product. Saying how good it is, how Asafa Powell managed break the world record because of the product, how her mom likes it, and how my family would want it. Well, who cares? I do have a friend that became a distributor of a product, but he’s not pushy as this girl. He asked me if I am interested in the product or not, and when I said no, that’s about it. He never tried to call me again and again, promoting his product. That’s a person that value friendship, not exploiting them.
I must say that she’s quite smart. She FORCED me to bring the product home, asked me to have a look, and she will come again the day after. Well, fortunately I was smart enough to reject the offer. I knew that she will take the chance to FORCE me buy the product when she came by again the day after.
Sooner after that, I don’t answer her calls anymore. Yes, she kept ringing me after the “incident”. I’m lucky that she doesn’t have my home phone number. If not, she would be harassing me with her calls. I’m sick of all these marketers.
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Creating DVD from AVI
Lately I have been playing around with the video files on my hard drive. I wanted to convert my J-drama, in avi format, to DVD player format. And guess what? Such task is a pain in the ass, and yet I still want to convert them to DVD format. I wanted to watch those drama on my living room TV.
After like a few hours googling to look for guides and software, I found a freeware, DIKO, which has the feature that I want the most, that is to fit all 11 episodes of the drama into a DVD. I tried Nero Vision and several trial and free software, none manage to fit so many episodes in a DVD, even though I put the setting to the lowest quality. Most of those softwares works better with Movies rather than TV Shows with lots of episodes.
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