Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:16 am

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:03 am

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:25 am

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:58 pm


The watch sellers in Central Market do batteries for $3 or $4 and fit them while you wait. The woman opposite the stand that sells all the personal violence equipment is very reliable and cheap (you can peruse the coshes, stun guns and gas sprays to pass the time).

Ages ago I bought a $5 ICE-imitation watch from Central Market, when it needed a new battery i was quoted $4 which makes you wonder how cheaply these things get made! I just decided to get another $5 ICE watch in a different colour, I'm now on my 5th

willyhilly wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:49 pm I had a flat battery in the red car early Saturday morning. I googled the battery cost, $165. Then called the insurance roadside assistance. Battery only 12 months old. Checked everything was working, gave me a new battery and he drove away. I was thinking of cancelling the insurance but that’s great service. All up less than an hour from my first phone call.
In the garage business in Cambodia they always steal the thermostat first. Easy to get at and used to be worth nearly a days pay. If you are not there they then begin swapping parts. The Chinese parts are so cheap and original second hand so much more valuable.

Bluenose wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:19 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:16 am

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:03 am

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:25 am

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:58 pm


The watch sellers in Central Market do batteries for $3 or $4 and fit them while you wait. The woman opposite the stand that sells all the personal violence equipment is very reliable and cheap (you can peruse the coshes, stun guns and gas sprays to pass the time).

Ages ago I bought a $5 ICE-imitation watch from Central Market, when it needed a new battery i was quoted $4 which makes you wonder how cheaply these things get made! I just decided to get another $5 ICE watch in a different colour, I'm now on my 5th

You might be addicted

Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:04 am Buy your wife a new watch every year for her birthday and you will not have this sort of problem in the future.

Spoiler:

Check with HE to see where he bought his watch.

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:00 pm Does she look technically adept? It might simply be that she didn’t have a clue where to find the new batteries while the supervisor (or some other oppo was away) and in an effort to save face, offered you the expensive alternative. You’ve buggered off, the competent one has come back, or the rapid search for the correct batteries has found them under the takeaway noodles for lunch, face saved, customer happy (ish).

Not so much a scam, maybe more a poor decision making and responsibility process?

This last week, I had to kick off with ABA because they ordered a new ATM card for the other half, but cocked it up and ordered it in my name. To then order a new card in the other half’s name would require me to pay a replacement card fee again, even though it was their cockup.
5 individual staff dealt with it, badly, over two days- each demanding that I pay the fee again, before someone sufficiently senior took charge and fixed the issue. And refunded me for my trouble.

But this isn’t just a Cambodian issue. I was in the EE shop in town just a few days ago, for a new e-sim. After sitting waiting for nearly ten minutes having sorted all the paperwork and ID stuff, the girl came back and apologized. The e-sims are locked away in a safe, and they can’t remember the passcode. Apparently, it’s been like it for weeks, but nobody has taken ownership to resolve the problem…. Here, have a normal sim instead.

There’s a lot of jobs where folk are hired, given very limited training and paid peanuts. The bar is not set too high.

AndyKK wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:42 am

Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:04 am Buy your wife a new watch every year for her birthday and you will not have this sort of problem in the future.

Spoiler:

Check with HE to see where he bought his watch.

HE didn't, it was a gift.