> Rude bastid. Maybe, but the world is poorer when it loses eccentrics, idiosyncratic characters and the individual texture and grain they bring. I'm sure however that the last refuge of these types will be Belgium.
It will be a shame to lose all the small denomination coins too as the value that they represent will still go somewhere, probably into the pockets of the already-rich. At the moment it is much nicer if you don't want the stuff in your pocket to put it into the charity box that many shops and cafes have next to the till, or into the tips box. > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Pat Temmerman > Sent: 31 December 2019 10:53 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: OCD > > Lived in Leuven, Belgium for many years. Had a local hobby / model shop that > totally ignored normal retail pricing practices. First noticed this when we > switched from the Belgian Franc to the Euro (exchange rate was > 40 / 1 if I recall), and noticed the prices of models in the guys window. > Prices > like 27.04, 113.87 and such. No rounding up / down to hit 'price points'. Many > months later I noticed that the strange pricing continued and realized it had > nothing to do with the guy's handling of the exchange rates, he was simply > working on a fixed mark-up, final retail price be damned. Last weeks Leuven > news said that the shop was finally closing down after 60 years. Whatever his > policies, seemed it worked for him. (As an aside, for reasons not really > relevant, I hankered for a model of a C-130A . Went in one day to ask if he > could get one for me. He basically said 'what you can buy is what you see'. > Rude bastid. Still, I went by at least once a week to see if there was one in > the window. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
