Amoghavarsha ([info]amoghavarsha) wrote,
@ 2008-12-17 13:38:00
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Have they lost it or have they yet not got it?
"May we live in interesting times" - The chinese curse I think has come true. The R-word has made its way across the board to everyones lives. So in these times when everyone's try hard to keep up business, even 5 star hotels are slashing prices by upto 40%, we have some geniuses who have either lost it or yet not got the news.

1. French loaf on church street is a small little bakery shop which charges an average of 900/- for a kilo of cake, really are you selling gold?

2. via prashanthks, the prices of movie tickets and DVDs are still crazily high, I've stopped watching movies on weekends

3. Airline prices are still high, if they cut down their costs atleast they can make up their losses in quantity than just flying 10 ppl per flight

4. Some folks in kerala also hasn't got any clue yet, the cgh group of hotels had a stall for food near volvo ocean race media center and a sandwich (sucky ones) costed 200/- plus tax

Can all these guys please go ahead and get a life before they shut shops?




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[info]inspirethoughts
2008-12-17 05:43 pm UTC (link)
LOL! Looks like they do not know the word "recession" at all...ridiculous prices.

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[info]purely_narcotic
2008-12-18 01:17 am UTC (link)
Flights from the US to India ten days before the flying out date are going cheap- yes, it's the recession and I can't believe the domestic flights in India show no sign of cuts(My domestic tickets are costing 1/3rd of my round trip fare and that's just bizarre). What's wrong with these people?!

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[info]sriniram
2008-12-18 10:10 am UTC (link)
How come government babus are not reducing their bribes? I paid 30% more now than 6 months ago for the same thing.

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[info]deponti
2008-12-20 03:36 pm UTC (link)
What *I* find strange is that they are, still, SELLING that stuff/tickets! Who are the nobrains people who are willing to buy this kind of stuff?

We spent an entire day flying on airlines and the sealed veg bun I got at Kolkata airport had rancid butter/cheese...and we were in no position to complain, being on a flight hundreds of miles away...

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[info]mohanvee
2008-12-27 06:00 pm UTC (link)
Airlines are notorious for going bust... and the reason is not hard to figure... Except for long distance travel, flight travel is a marginal utility at best, and as such, is doomed from the start...

As for piracy in the entertainment industry... I am all for natural selection and survival of the fittest! :)
I've actually bought audio cds for 800 Rs in the past, out of a misplaced sense of righteoutness... Now, all the "Issued in Public Interest" campaigns have opened my eyes... I know that "When the buying stops, the overpricing will stop"... :)

Checkout the South Park episode 709 for a typically irreverent (and typically R-rated ) parody of the music industry's whole "Stop Piracy" line...

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