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Originally Posted by Katsunami
No, you don't understand.
You should have *given* them a Kobo Mini. Or do you expect them to come looking for you reach time they're going to make a case now? No. Didn't think so either.
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Hahahaha!


You need to live in a third-world country....Giving them the Kobo would be like....actually
GIVING them the Kobo and saying goodbye to it!
On another note: The artisans are set up every weekend in a kind of round-about in the park. It's mainly there for gringos and other innocents, cheap-jack stuff that caters to the tourists. One of the vendors there has a booth and I noticed some leather pouches, etc., the stuff that the tourists flock to like flies on a carcass.
Giving her 10 soles and, with the reassurance from me that it must fit if I am to pay the remaining 15 soles, was my guarantee. From my years of living here, this is a guarantee that is easily established, since 15 soles is like a small fortune for the less fortunate. They'll do their best to attempt to fulfill the order.
So, if they don't get the fit correct on the first try, they'll continue to do so until they get it right. They can't afford to pass by on those 15 soles: It represents too much money to them.
A TRUE STORY: I find myself smiling when a Peruvian offers a discount on an item. They'll take, for example, 3 soles ($1.08) off of an item that might be priced at $100 dollars (s/275.00). This is actually true, and not just in my experience, either.
They protect, with security locks, such things as flash cards and - again, this is true! - mouthwash. And then, these kinds of things in turn [not the mouthwash, though; mainly electronic stuff] are protected under locked glass cases.