Sosua Reports

[QUOTE=Orgasmico;1579884]Don't know what kind of jungle fever fantasy you have in your head but those girls are about trying to make some pesos.

Just be careful as those dudes come up missing more than most: [URL]http://dominicanwatchdog.org/page-Too_many_tourists_killed_in_the_Dominican_Republic[/URL].[/QUOTE]LOL. I don't have any "Jungle Fever" fantasy. I'm just going by what I've just seen over the past 6 days.

If I saw a Haitian walking or sitting with a guy he would almost always be heard speaking with a German accent and this would occur at one of the places that seem to cater to German ex-pats. It was my first short term trip to Sosua and this was rather consistent.

Problem was I saw more than a few I liked but did not see one black gringo with a Haitian girl.

I guess my point is that I was trying to watch for those hidden and rarely spoken about social codes that rookies like myself tend to miss.

Soon as I was out of the POP terminal I started asking about this verification program of cell sims supposedly going on. 1st guy I spoke to about it was the dominican who is employed at the car rental place. He said it was true, and most of his family did the verification online. Then I talked to my Tourist guide buddy Miguel and he said the same thing. I asked why are they doing it? They both claim that they are implementing a system where they can identify crank callers that abuse emergency services, like the fire department, ambulance, police etc. I think the problem is, there are many sim cards that are bought on the street, often individuals have several cards. Apparently these cards are not readily identifiable to who is using the sim. So they want to rectify that. I suppose any sim that can't be verified will be terminated.

Okay so I went to Orange. The girl there asked for my passport (gave her a copy) and asked me to write down my numbers. She got on her computer terminal for a minute or two, handed my papers and said I was okay. I asked her specifically what happens to people who have sim cards but they are in another country? She said that sim will become terminated and they will have to get a new number. I asked about a deadline, and she said tomorrow June 12 is the deadline. I wanted to ask more questions to make sure I understood everything, but she was busy tending to other anxious customers.

After going to Orange I went to the playa for lunch. Met a cute 29 yr old chica there (she looked 22), set up a date for later. As I was leaving the playa my regular who was bed ridden just last week hurriedly caught up to me. This same chica texted me last week complaining about being unemployed and then sick in a hospital for a few days (sent bogus pics too) , all of a sudden is working at the same spot she was working last trip, and no sign of having been sick. No problem, that doesn't concern me. They can lie all they want. I know the game with her (and others) and how to play it.

I agreed to get together with her when she got off work at 6. She came right to my spot. We did our thing and after 2 hours I told her I was going out later and didn't want all night tonight. She left and now I was going to prepare to make the hookup with the chica from the playa.

Then it dawned on me. I have no clue what this chicas expectations are for getting paid. It was clear when she told me she was staying at City Lights, that she was on the hustle. So I decided to text her and tell her what I usually pay for 2 hours. 1500. I said I would offer 500 more if the service was good. No response to my text. My blondie regular had been blowing up my phone. And I sure wouldn't mind getting with her. We have good chemistry. I set out to see if the chica was at City Lights anyway. I spotted her sitting at the bar, and then I called her.

Bottom line she said she wanted 2500 for 2 hours, that 1500 I offered for 2 hours wasnt enough. I said I understood, and hung up. Went home to relax, and prepare for Blondie. I don't know what I was thinking. But I am glad I asked what her expectations were before picking her up, getting her to my spot only to have a little dilemma. By getting her expectations beforehand, I saved myself from wasting my time and money. I had no clue if she could or would give good service. I wasnt about to take that chance, even for a short stay. Especially since I know I wouldn't have needed her for 2 hours, and I know she wouldn't stay for 2 hours in the 1st place.

[QUOTE=Wrx2005;1579956]
Then it dawned on me. I have no clue what this chicas expectations are for getting paid. It was clear when she told me she was staying at City Lights, that she was on the hustle. So I decided to text her and tell her what I usually pay for 2 hours. 1500. I said I would offer 500 more if the service was good. No response to my text. My blondie regular had been blowing up my phone. And I sure wouldn't mind getting with her. We have good chemistry. I set out to see if the chica was at City Lights anyway. I spotted her sitting at the bar, and then I called her.

.[/QUOTE]That is exactly whay I did on my last trip. I would get a girl's number and tell her I would call her later. I would text her with my address and tell her I will pay 1500 pesos. At that point, its up to her, if she comes thru, great. If she doesn't, then I move on! (only difference is I don't try to bargain for 2 hours because I know the girl is going to run off 5 seconds after I cum).

[QUOTE=Lou32;1579823]If I (as a non-German) started hanging out at the German-run bars and chatting up the Haitian girls would that be seen as bad form? It seems that the German guy / Haitian female bond is strong and I'd be making enemies if I tried to chat up a darker chica.[/QUOTE]Ha-ha! Try to learn the rules of cee-lo, learn some Rammstein lyrics and become a chain smoker!

Now, a serious Rule of this hobby: Follow ze Germans and you will find punters paradise.

[QUOTE=Wrx2005;1579933]Soon as I was out of the POP terminal I started asking about this verification program of cell sims supposedly going on. 1st guy I spoke to about it was the dominican who is employed at the car rental place. He said it was true, and most of his family did the verification online. Then I talked to my Tourist guide buddy Miguel and he said the same thing. I asked why are they doing it? They both claim that they are implementing a system where they can identify crank callers that abuse emergency services, like the fire department, ambulance, police etc. I think the problem is, there are many sim cards that are bought on the street, often individuals have several cards. Apparently these cards are not readily identifiable to who is using the sim. So they want to rectify that. I suppose any sim that can't be verified will be terminated.

Okay so I went to Orange. The girl there asked for my passport (gave her a copy) and asked me to write down my numbers. She got on her computer terminal for a minute or two, handed my papers and said I was okay. I asked her specifically what happens to people who have sim cards but they are in another country? She said that sim will become terminated and they will have to get a new number. I asked about a deadline, and she said tomorrow June 12 is the deadline. I wanted to ask more questions to make sure I understood everything, but she was busy tending to other anxious customers.[/QUOTE]Great information.

Did you get the impression that she was just checking that you were already in the system (perhaps because you showed your passport when buying the SIM) or did she have to re-register you?

[QUOTE=Wrx2005;1579933] I asked her specifically what happens to people who have sim cards but they are in another country? She said that sim will become terminated and they will have to get a new number. I asked about a deadline, and she said tomorrow June 12 is the deadline. [/QUOTE]I sent a copy of my Bill and my Passport to the orange customer service email adress I wrote here down earlier. But so far I have no response. Not even a automated mail, that they got the mail and it is in progress, like you usually get when you sent a mail to a big company.

I will see tommorow if my sim got terminated or not.

[QUOTE=Bravo;1579964]That is exactly whay I did on my last trip. I would get a girl's number and tell her I would call her later. I would text her with my address and tell her I will pay 1500 pesos. At that point, its up to her, if she comes thru, great. If she doesn't, then I move on! (only difference is I don't try to bargain for 2 hours because I know the girl is going to run off 5 seconds after I cum).[/QUOTE]I don't believe in bargaining time either. But I felt I needed to confirm her expectations vs mine. At that point I wasnt negotiating just confirming where we stood. I was already leaning more towards getting with my Blondie. Her answer worked for me. When a chica comes up with a price like that, I'm inclined not to pursue any further. If she counter-offered later, I still would be inclined not to pursue, because I expect her performance may be sub-par to compensate for what she felt she was sacrificing.

[QUOTE=RocheBrazi;1580191]I sent a copy of my Bill and my Passport to the orange customer service email adress I wrote here down earlier. But so far I have no response. Not even a automated mail, that they got the mail and it is in progress, like you usually get when you sent a mail to a big company.

I will see tommorow if my sim got terminated or not.[/QUOTE]The Orange rep said specifically that I couldn't do it for someone (I didn't even ask her about that, she volunteered that info), they would have to be there. In your case, I doubt what you did will work. I think you will have to be there too. The other thing I'm thinking, everybody that has to get a new number may have to pay for that. It may only be a couple hundred pesos, more or less. But for all that fall in that category, these carriers should get some decent revenue. What is gonna suck, is if you still had credit on your original sim, and end up losing all of it due to the termination.

[QUOTE=CharlesPooter;1580129]Great information.

Did you get the impression that she was just checking that you were already in the system (perhaps because you showed your passport when buying the SIM) or did she have to re-register you?[/QUOTE]I think she was just checking that I was already in the system like you said. It's unlikely she was re-registering me.

I just came from Claro here in Bonao to verify my phone. When I walked in the lines were quite long. The line to the verification actually went fast. I think it was 10 minutes. However there was already a lady going down the line writing people's names and phone numbers. Since I do not have a Dominican cedula I had to go a different route. She had to copy my passport to the back of the form below and she filled it in. I had to sign at the bottom. Since Showdown had mentioned in the General thread that he is not in country and didn't want to lose his credit, I asked about it.

[B]For those who are not in country call this number today: 1-866-788-6775[/B] and they will take care of you.

[QUOTE=CharlesPooter;1562329]I cannot imagine why street-vendors would want to buy stock from a chain-store, even if it were endlines. It is already expensive and they would need to add at least 50% mark-up to be worth their while (normal mark-up is 100%).

They could buy stuff from the pulga much cheaper. And you can find first-world brands which are much better quality than from La Sirena or Jimenez.

But most street vendors don't even do that. They buy (usually sharing with one or more other vendors unles they have a big trade and plenty of space) a large cube of clothes which has been condensed as in a trash or scrapped-car crusher to make it economical to import from Haiti, as volume costs more than weight. They have no way of knowing what is inside and no doubt half is unsaleable to affluent buyers. That half they give away or sell for a few pesos to Haitians, but the rest they sell for five to ten times the buying price.

I have seen them unload these cubes from the truck. The stuff is so condensed that when they cut the metal bands it almost explodes, and one cube which filled half a smallish truck contains enough clothes to fill a small hall once "liberated".[/QUOTE]I just passed a store (had Pulgas written various times on the ceiling beams) here in Bonao that has the cubes of clothes that CP mentioned in the quoted post. They are categorized by sex and size (kids or adults). I see in the picture that one cube even says Polo on it. They also had cubes of bed dressing.

[QUOTE=MrEnternational;1580226]I just came from Claro here in Bonao to verify my phone. When I walked in the lines were quite long. The line to the verification actually went fast. I think it was 10 minutes. However there was already a lady going down the line writing people's names and phone numbers. Since I do not have a Dominican cedula I had to go a different route. She had to copy my passport to the back of the form below and she filled it in. I had to sign at the bottom. Since Showdown had mentioned in the General thread that he is not in country and didn't want to lose his credit, I asked about it.

[B]For those who are not in country call this number today: 1-866-788-6775[/B] and they will take care of you.[/QUOTE]I bought a $ 200 Peso phone from Orange back in November and had to present my Passport to purchase the phone. The phone works fine here, do I need to re-register which doesn't make sense in that I purchased the phone from Orange versus off the street.

[QUOTE=Wrx2005;1580201]The Orange rep said specifically that I couldn't do it for someone (I didn't even ask her about that, she volunteered that info), they would have to be there. In your case, I doubt what you did will work. I think you will have to be there too. The other thing I'm thinking, everybody that has to get a new number may have to pay for that. It may only be a couple hundred pesos, more or less. But for all that fall in that category, these carriers should get some decent revenue. What is gonna suck, is if you still had credit on your original sim, and end up losing all of it due to the termination.[/QUOTE]First I sent my DR Novia to Orange. Indeed they told her I have to be there. Then I was contacting Orange on their Facebook Page, because I could not find any contact info on their hompage. There they did answer me pretty quick and told me to sent a email to there costumer care with a copy of Passport and a signed Letter where I write down my DR Phone Numbers. I did sent them what they want to have + added my Bill because I have the Bill here aswell.

But since they did not answer I doubt aswell it will work: p.

Here once again the Answer they sent me on their FB Page:

"Orange Dominicana:

Hola, clientes con pasaporte que estéand fuera del país, deben enviar una carta firmada con la lista de andúmeros de móviles que reconoce, why una copia de su pasaporte, al correo [EMAIL]servicio.cliente@orange.com.do[/EMAIL]".

[QUOTE=MrEnternational;1580226]I just came from Claro here in Bonao to verify my phone. When I walked in the lines were quite long. The line to the verification actually went fast. I think it was 10 minutes. However there was already a lady going down the line writing people's names and phone numbers. Since I do not have a Dominican cedula I had to go a different route. She had to copy my passport to the back of the form below and she filled it in. I had to sign at the bottom. Since Showdown had mentioned in the General thread that he is not in country and didn't want to lose his credit, I asked about it.

[B]For those who are not in country call this number today: 1-866-788-6775[/B] and they will take care of you.[/QUOTE]Is that number good for Claro customers only?