Im in saigon and watching it go down rigbt now shoe shiner is charging 10$ to fix a 2 dollar pair of sandals .

The foreigner is like "oh cmon"

The Shoe shiner is loke " oh but mista yoi have big shoe must pay more"

Super old news.... if this has not happened to you in saigon you have not lived there long enough.

console wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:59 pm Super old news.... if this has not happened to you in saigon you have not lived there long enough.

To be fair the post is over 2 years old.

Happened to me in Hanoi. Guy took the $1 flip-flop of my foot and 'fixed it' I kept on telling him no in both english & vietnamese, he didn't listen. When he tried to 'fix' the other one I didn't let him.

He demanded money, I said no, that was the end of it.

Needless to say the flip-flop he fixed was the one that broke first.

If someone doesn't get a price before 'agreeing' (not saying no is the same as agreeing) to anything in SEA they deserve to be scammed

Like you said "super old news" you're necroposting to a two year old thread

Put a smile on my face when i read this post!
I also got hit with this one in Hanoi about 3 years ago.
Didn't give them the amount they wanted but what i did give was well worth it, my friend & I have had a few laughs about it since. I originally thought that there was an insect on my foot & he was brushing it away, there salesmanship was excellent & I still have the sandals.
Good memories!