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Old 01-24-2011, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by shimozukawa View Post

He said (and this is pretty much verbatim -- of course it was 16 years ago) "You damn gook. Stop trying to rip me off!" Mind you, I was just saying "The other vendors are selling theirs for $1.75, but I think yours is real, so I want to buy it. How much is it?" He said "$3?" I said "$3???" (I was expecting closer to $10... again, I had no clue on pricing those days.)
Had I been of Oriental persuasion the bigot would have lost me and my business with that comment.
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