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    Default 2 Melons fetch $19,600 at auction! Moral of Story...

    Pair of Japanese cantaloupe melons fetch $19,600 at auction
    http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking...ction-20130524


    Moral of Story:
    You think is stupid, the buyer dont think so and will by again, the farmer will grow again the cycle continue. The buyer think you are stupid to eat the $2 equivalent from local supermarket.

    Same arguement as we are seeing here:
    LANDED vs Non-landed
    Malaysia vs Singapore properties
    GST vs watever
    Yowetan vs All of us

    End of the day, we are all stupid in each other's eye.
    (PS: Bro Radha could be thinking of other 'melons')

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    Hi... In simple wordings -

    Beauty lies in the eye beholder.

    各花入各眼;情人眼里出西施.

    I love Mt Sinai.

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    That's melon is not for u. Too big for ur 2 hands to grope.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

    OUT WITH THE SHIT TRASH

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    Quote Originally Posted by leesg123
    Pair of Japanese cantaloupe melons fetch $19,600 at auction
    http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking...ction-20130524


    Moral of Story:
    You think is stupid, the buyer dont think so and will by again, the farmer will grow again the cycle continue. The buyer think you are stupid to eat the $2 equivalent from local supermarket.

    Same arguement as we are seeing here:
    LANDED vs Non-landed
    Malaysia vs Singapore properties
    GST vs watever
    Yowetan vs All of us

    End of the day, we are all stupid in each other's eye.
    (PS: Bro Radha could be thinking of other 'melons')

    The trick is packaging. Go to Isetan supermarket, you can see $100 melons there in nice packaging. After you remove the packaging and eat it, it taste the same as a Malaysian $3 melon.

    Our MBT is also an expert in packaging. Give a nice name to HDB, DBSS, throw in a few decor and sell for double the price!

    狮子王 (formerly blackjack21trader): READ MY LIPS: NO MORE CRASH FOR 60 YEARS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yowetan
    Hi... In simple wordings -

    Beauty lies in the eye beholder.

    各花入各眼;情人眼里出西施.

    I love Mt Sinai.
    i support you! u just need to take the 1st step!

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    i thought this type melon

    In the final analysis.....its NOT whether you have a diploma,degree,masters OR PHD....its whether you have a HDB/PC/EC or LANDED...

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    Quote Originally Posted by sgbuyer
    The trick is packaging. Go to Isetan supermarket, you can see $100 melons there in nice packaging. After you remove the packaging and eat it, it taste the same as a Malaysian $3 melon.

    Our MBT is also an expert in packaging. Give a nice name to HDB, DBSS, throw in a few decor and sell for double the price!

    wrong, the japanese melons are lightyears away from your normal ones from malaysia - smell, shape, taste

    when i went to japan, handcarried two huge ones back and my bag so smelled nice

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    Quote Originally Posted by eng81157
    wrong, the japanese melons are lightyears away from your normal ones from malaysia - smell, shape, taste

    when i went to japan, handcarried two huge ones back and my bag so smelled nice
    forgot to add, it costs me SGD$30+, while the same one here would go over $100 - shipping costs expensive lah

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    Quote Originally Posted by eng81157
    forgot to add, it costs me SGD$30+, while the same one here would go over $100 - shipping costs expensive lah
    did you notice the price of mangosteens in japan?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hopeful
    did you notice the price of mangosteens in japan?
    ok, just a note - never buy fruits that aren't native to japan cos' you are paying for the import fees.

    similarly, the price of 1 durian, a very normal averaged size, was like $40

    but you get a huge bunch of fresh kyoho grapes, that are still green at the stalk, at $6 from the supermarket. costs at least $20+ in singapore, and the stalk is browned

    you can get japanese perfectly yellow colored peaches for less than $5 for 3, but here it's $20 at least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sgbuyer
    The trick is packaging. Go to Isetan supermarket, you can see $100 melons there in nice packaging. After you remove the packaging and eat it, it taste the same as a Malaysian $3 melon.

    Our MBT is also an expert in packaging. Give a nice name to HDB, DBSS, throw in a few decor and sell for double the price!

    yayo...one take aeroplane to come sg, other take lorry and jamm at causeway to reach our wet market...

    BUT,,a spade is a spade, a melon is a melon...

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    Quote Originally Posted by leesg123
    Pair of Japanese cantaloupe melons fetch $19,600 at auction
    Moral of Story:
    You think is stupid, the buyer dont think so and will by again, the farmer will grow again the cycle continue. The buyer think you are stupid to eat the $2 equivalent from local supermarket.

    Same arguement as we are seeing here:
    LANDED vs Non-landed
    Malaysia vs Singapore properties
    GST vs watever
    Yowetan vs All of us

    End of the day, we are all stupid in each other's eye.
    (PS: Bro Radha could be thinking of other 'melons')

    For the auction winner, he was not buying melons, but advertsing himself.
    10k for a world-wide advertisement, worth it....

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    in their context, elaborate fruit hampers are considered respectable corporate gifts and usually start in the range of SGD$300 and above.

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