Re: Wang Hai, a Consumer Advocate in China - It all started on a bit of a lark.

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:45 -0700, rst0wxyz <rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jul 29, 5:57 pm, PaPaPeng <PaPaP...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:03:43 -0700, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Have you ever heard of the term:

Where there is a will, there is a way?

He's doing this for a living. Besides, how far can a vender go?
China is not like in America, where people are:

Can I sell you the Brooklyn Bridge? Cheap. Only $50 million.

The Brooklyn is too old, too outdated, too narrow, too badly designed,
too heavy, too big, too short,...

You get the picture?

From Wikipedia:
References to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity. For example, "If you believe that, I have a wonderful bargain for you…" References are often nowadays more oblique, such as "I could sell you some
lovely riverside property in Brooklyn ... ". George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had (allegedly)successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists.[1]

Same terms. Ther first sale was as scrap iron. With scrap iron
prices as high as they are today where manhole covers get stolen, $50
million for the bridge is still a bargain.
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