20-litre water bottles delivery in Kampot

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20-litre water bottles delivery in Kampot

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Anyone got a contact for delivery of those big water bottles in Kampot, please?

I'm by the Durian Roundabout and the only place I can find that sells them wants $5.
I've just spent the last 2 years in Siem Reap and never paid more than $1 so I think she may have been charging me a foreigner tax!
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Re: 20-litre water bottles delivery in Kampot

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Do you have the same water bottle she has already? The five dollars is just a deposit, you'll get it back once you return it, otherwise it's still a 4000-5000 riel to exchange it
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Re: 20-litre water bottles delivery in Kampot

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$5 deposit on new big bottle refills 3000r from most small shops after that
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I was getting the giant bottles delivered to me for 3,000 reil ,
So I quit that brand and graduated to a different brand that costs 5,000
Jasmine.

If it costs more , it must be better , right ?
I don’t trust any of them , I still boil it all !
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Usually they use (illegal) water pumped from a depth of 50-80 meters from drilled wells, but in the rainy season some of them use collected rain water as well.

None of these sellers use any form of purified water. Boosts your immune system I guess.

To the OP, I guess they assumed you didn't have an empty bottle to hand them over in exchange, hence the higher price.
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Re: 20-litre water bottles delivery in Kampot

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Buy a water filter for $25. It's one of the best investments you'll ever make. Never run out of water and never wrestle with one of those water bottles again.
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Darkcel wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:56 am Question

Do you have the same water bottle she has already? The five dollars is just a deposit, you'll get it back once you return it, otherwise it's still a 4000-5000 riel to exchange it
I've got a bottle, but it's a different one so I don't think she'd accept that.
Now that you've told me it's usually 4/5000 Riel for the water, I'll give her another try later, thanks.
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one_dolla wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:45 am $5 deposit on new big bottle refills 3000r from most small shops after that
Thanks.
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pissontheroof wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:03 am I was getting the giant bottles delivered to me for 3,000 reil ,
So I quit that brand and graduated to a different brand that costs 5,000
Jasmine.

If it costs more , it must be better , right ?
I don’t trust any of them , I still boil it all !
Thanks, but I'm in Kampot.
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Re: 20-litre water bottles delivery in Kampot

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Kammekor wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:38 am Usually they use (illegal) water pumped from a depth of 50-80 meters from drilled wells, but in the rainy season some of them use collected rain water as well.

None of these sellers use any form of purified water. Boosts your immune system I guess.

To the OP, I guess they assumed you didn't have an empty bottle to hand them over in exchange, hence the higher price.
Yeah, that's probably it.
I'll pop back and try again, thanks.
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