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Originally Posted by purrretrog
Why would anyone with a lot of money go to a nasty overpriced 3rd world sh*thole where he gets treated like trash by delusional 3rd world people - a place that is largely barely above India save for the lack of creepy rapey guys and designated sh*tting streets.
The elites are completely disconnected and delusional and the death of Thailand as a tourist destination is pretty much imminent.
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Thai logic: "less customers, wat do?" "let's increase the price!"
Prices are absolutely insane in Bangkok both for rents (especially if you factor in that you need to taxi it everywhere) and nicer restaurants - completely disconnected from white collar salaries.
These nicer restaurants which are still on nasty decrepit sh*thole streets are London level pricing with 3rd world sh*thole service.
Who wants to deal with that crap?
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Thai logic: "less customers, wat do?" "let's increase the price!"
Not only price increases but customers being shamed and driven away for not playing big spenders.
A thai rather stays at home than spending less than 400 baht for a meal and some fancy frappuciono in a coffeeshop than going there everyday and drinking an espresso there where worthless staff will shame the customer for being poor and look down on the customer. (thai logic)
Their whole face and status culture only benefits the top tier corrupt elites and everybody else is destroying their business for buying into it.
- Driving customers away through the shitty behavior of staff that is tolerated
- Not asking customers what they actually want
- Not getting customers input on marketing when the place is always empty
- Gigantic oversized menus with zillion items that nobody ever orders
- Extremely bad value by western standards
- Shaming and insulting customers / keeping staff that is crazy and out of control.
I could go on and on but thai civilization is on it's last legs, even more so than the west...