Look you can keep acting like an Indian all you want. Like I said it’s brown behavior. Keep defending your brown behavior: “Saar I can get this for $200 less”
That’s you nigga.
This brings up an issue I hate with dealing with the Chinese as well.
Going to rant here since I got into Jadeite buying (Jadeite is popular in Asia/China, and the sources for a certain type are only found near China):
The Chinese have a "You get what you paid for" ideology, but not in the way Americans think, where you buy cheap and you get something that won't last long.
In China, it means "You are trying to get one over on someone by underpaying for something worth more, but instead YOU got what YOU deserve by buying a fake because you should have known the real thing was worth more and YOU were trying to actually scam ME by underpaying".
Despite this ideology being common, it doesn't take into account that most of the time Chinese sellers overprice fake items, so not only are you buying a fake, but you're overpaying for it, it seems it may go into Indian ideology at some points where they think "well, you're dumb so you deserve to be scammed and I'm smart so I deserve your money more"
The Chinese also has this "By any means necessary" idea when it comes to winning or getting ahead, its why cheating is common in video games by Chinese, they legitimately don't see cheats as cheating, they see it as "taking advantage of a resource others aren't". The white viewpoint is that a game is a set of rules which are meant to challenge the player for fun, without rules it is no longer a game and it means nothing, the Chinese do not see it that way, they see it as a competition to win, and the rules are just challenges to overcome. Without rules, the white man realizes there is no game, there is no winning because the game is no more. The Chinese do not see it like that.
These two ideas lead to a problem where the Chinese try to get one over on consumers to their own detriment, many times they will make short term gains by trying to scam when they would actually make more money by being honest and trustworthy. Americans have to deal with this issue when trying to get manufacturing set up in China, and I have to deal with it when buying Jadeite materials, sure nobody is going to spend $100 on checking a $20 piece of Jade (except me to make sure you're an honest seller), but you shouldn't sell fakes because long-term, you will get more money selling 50 real jade pieces at $10 profit, than selling 1 fake piece at $19 profit.
On a macro scale it fucks up the Country's economy too, nobody wants to buy Jade directly from China because they know they will get scammed, so they have to buy it through western store fronts at a 100x markup, seriously, a piece that would sell for $100 in China gets sold for $5k in America because thats how little Americans trust the Chinese, the Chinese are losing a lot of national profit because they are untrustworthy and people avoid buying from them when they can because of that.
