Turkish guy on Facebook exposes being overcharged by 3 cents at Thai Huot

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Turkish guy on Facebook exposes being overcharged by 3 cents at Thai Huot

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Pleased he got his money back

Life must be difficult enough for some ex-pats living on the breadline in Cambodia
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Suddenly my local newspaper (which is as best use when wrapping groceries) looks like a Nobel prize of literature ^^
Good luck attracting new readers with meaningless subjects and inane comments, who has time for this shit apart from old people bickering about mundane stuff ?
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I agree with him. It's not about the 3 cents. Nobody cares. But if you want me to pay $1.98 then put it on your sticker.
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If they say 'But it's only 3 cents' give them $1.92.

Yes, being facetious in this case, but in large negotiations it's a useful position to take.
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Merchant fee, the banks will make a shitload from a cashless society :cry:
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Possibly the price in TH's system has a price in KHR that was calculated at one exchange rate but when ABA was debited that KHR amount they converted it back at a different exchange rate.
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Bluenose wrote: Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:51 am Possibly the price in TH's system has a price in KHR that was calculated at one exchange rate but when ABA was debited that KHR amount they converted it back at a different exchange rate.
There will always be a small discrepancy when converting $US to KHR as the rates fluctuate, however, I do not believe that to be the case here.

The displayed goods are priced in US$ and since no price is stated on the goods the US$ price must have been the one entered into the cash register. This amount, in US$, was then transferred to the ABA pay device.
Now, many cash registers here work in US$ and they then do a currency conversion, which given the current level of technology, probably updates each day with current conversion rates. So the displayed total to pay is in both currencies.

There are, I believe, 2 possible explanations.

1: It was simply a typing error and the 8 was hit instead of the 5. The close proximity of these 2 keys on a numpad configuration supports this.

2: When the barcodes were printed... maybe the exchange rate was so different when it was printed that this can explain the 3c difference.
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IraHayes wrote: Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:39 am
Bluenose wrote: Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:51 am Possibly the price in TH's system has a price in KHR that was calculated at one exchange rate but when ABA was debited that KHR amount they converted it back at a different exchange rate.
There will always be a small discrepancy when converting $US to KHR as the rates fluctuate, however, I do not believe that to be the case here.

The displayed goods are priced in US$ and since no price is stated on the goods the US$ price must have been the one entered into the cash register. This amount, in US$, was then transferred to the ABA pay device.
Now, many cash registers here work in US$ and they then do a currency conversion, which given the current level of technology, probably updates each day with current conversion rates. So the displayed total to pay is in both currencies.

There are, I believe, 2 possible explanations.

1: It was simply a typing error and the 8 was hit instead of the 5. The close proximity of these 2 keys on a numpad configuration supports this.

2: When the barcodes were printed... maybe the exchange rate was so different when it was printed that this can explain the 3c difference.
I vote for explanation No 1. :mrgreen:
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