Cootie-Monster Neutral Newbie September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 Quote STOMPer Alex sent in this incredible story of a Chinese mine owner who ran up a 200,000 Yuan bill at a hotel before learning that they did not accept credit card payments. Angered by the incident, the mine owner had 200,000 single bills delivered to the hotel. This is a lesson to all on bad customer service, says the STOMPer, who describes the incident in an email to STOMP. "A coal mine owner in Shanxi, China brought along RMB 100,000 cash to spend in a local hotel. "It turned out the bill came up to RMB 200,000. "The coal mine owner asked the hotel to let him pay by credit card. "The hotel refused and insisted cash payment only followed by a heated argument between the hotel and the coal mine owner. "In order to teach them a lesson, the mine owner made a phone call. "After a while two cars carrying 200,000 pieces of RMB 1 notes in sacks arrived in front of the hotel. "Hotel staff had to waste time and effort counting the single bills. "This man showed us all how to manage bad customer service. So, who is the winner in the end?" Visit STOMP ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken4555 1st Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 wahahahahaha... nice one... maybe he could have gotten a lorry in to pay in coins... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shull Turbocharged September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 4:18 AM, Ken4555 said: wahahahahaha... nice one... maybe he could have gotten a lorry in to pay in coins... coins would be good..hahahaa..too bad in singapore, anything more than 20 coins is not considered a legal tender.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedbs Turbocharged September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 can't they use a cash counting machine? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken4555 1st Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 4:22 AM, Shull said: coins would be good..hahahaa..too bad in singapore, anything more than 20 coins is not considered a legal tender.. really??? i didnt know that... i remember a guy who was pissed with a bus driver and one day he waited for the same bus driver and paid $1.20 bus fare in 5cents and 1cent coins.... haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken4555 1st Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 4:40 AM, Icedbs said: can't they use a cash counting machine? it was a hotel.... not a bank... but i guess they could have borrowed one.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplesilver 1st Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 (edited) On 9/11/2010 at 4:41 AM, Ken4555 said: it was a hotel.... not a bank... but i guess they could have borrowed one.... they did used one. see the 5th photo. or was that something else? Edited September 11, 2010 by Simplesilver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade777 5th Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 Actually nobody wins. The hotel staff has to waste time counting the money but then what are staff paid for. The customer has to suck thumb and wait till the counting over before he can leaves. Everybody time is wasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedbs Turbocharged September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 actually the way to prevent this is to set how much $$ can be paid by $1. Just like if I am not wrong, in Singapore we do have such limit as well. Coins only up to $10 or something... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1fast1 Supersonic September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 Why didn't Mr Towkay find out if the hotel accepted CCs in the first place? That's almost always the first question I ask when I go to a new place, even if it seems obvious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaweed 1st Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 in the first place....what did he spend on ?? 200000CNY...that is SGD40k ok....in a local hotel ??? sexy sexy party ??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1fast1 Supersonic September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 5:06 AM, Seaweed said: in the first place....what did he spend on ?? 200000CNY...that is SGD40k ok....in a local hotel ??? sexy sexy party ??? After all his time looking at coal and coal workers, can you blame him if he wants some real fun? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scion Turbocharged September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 4:50 AM, Icedbs said: actually the way to prevent this is to set how much $$ can be paid by $1. Just like if I am not wrong, in Singapore we do have such limit as well. Coins only up to $10 or something... and about 5c, what is the maximum number of 5c in payment? i heard of some stalls that refuse to accept more than four 5c coins <_< Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplesilver 1st Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 (edited) On 9/11/2010 at 5:24 AM, Scion said: and about 5c, what is the maximum number of 5c in payment? i heard of some stalls that refuse to accept more than four 5c coins <_< Is this like the reason why singapore stop using 1cents? Edited September 11, 2010 by Simplesilver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk Clutched September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 5:06 AM, Seaweed said: in the first place....what did he spend on ?? 200000CNY...that is SGD40k ok....in a local hotel ??? sexy sexy party ??? easy to spend S$40K lah... company D&D, celebrate hitting a giant vein of coal....invite all the miners and their families, easily 4000 people banquet, per head S$10 dinner, in certain parts of China can have a not-bad dinner already....that's it, S$40K spent lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jp66 5th Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 5:02 AM, Turboflat4 said: Why didn't Mr Towkay find out if the hotel accepted CCs in the first place? That's almost always the first question I ask when I go to a new place, even if it seems obvious. maybe the hotel don't want take the risk of accepting 200K via CC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonTan 2nd Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 it will not work in Singapore. The hotel manager will ask the rich man to wait. And then ask the toilet cleaner ah-peh to count the money to make sure it's correct! That will takes all night for the ah-peh to count and the richan have to wait. So u see, rich man try to act smart, the singaporan manager also not stupid! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha78 6th Gear September 11, 2010 Share September 11, 2010 On 9/11/2010 at 5:27 AM, Simplesilver said: Is this like the reason why singapore stop using 1cents? Why we stopped using 1 cent? One word -> inflation. The cost of producing the 1 cent coin exceeded the face value, that's the official reason. It probably won't be too long before we phase out 5 cents too. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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