Stupid shit in Medellin

[QUOTE=Gabacho;2962370]You supposedly have an MBA but yet you resort to name calling like a child. Also you admit that the places selling bottled water inside the airport for $8 for a 600 ML bottle are a ripoff but it is not price fixing? Lots of name calling, trump cum guzzling, and no substance in the rest of the post gabacho made...

-Gabacho.[/QUOTE]Buddy, you clearly don't understand anything I'm saying for some reason, though I imagine the Trump spunk has made you drunk. I keep telling you the difference between predatory pricing (legal, public, and unsavory) and price-fixing (illegal, collusion). One of those (predatory selling) is completely fine under capitalism unless you advocate for socialist policy like price controls (e. G. The capping of insulin prices to $35). The other is illegal because it has been deemed to be anti-capitalist and unfair to an absolute degree. There is a fine line between the two and it often comes down to how "public" and "justified" the pricing model is and the "freedom" of the consumer to find alternatives. In your studies, you'll learn that airports are not a case of price fixing (the airlines offer a much better example when it comes to fuel surcharges) but rather in the market equilibrium that forms in a unique economic environment (richer people in airports than the surrounding area, security cost increases, consumer values shift, etc.). Consumers are given alternatives like free water fountains and shitty vending machines and low-cost dining like McDs are also available within the confines of the airport. You'll eventually learn this when you finish your intro courses, I guess. You can probably skip your upcoming Econ 201 class since I gave you the gist of it ;p.

Truthfully, you read too much Twitter brainrot where someone posts a bar receipt from an upscale restaurant that is certainly shitty, but not indicative of the real environment at airports. If you need cheap food, go to the McDs or buy the cafe snacks. But if you can't understand why they charge $4 dollars for a bag of chips when 90% of their customers are paying $100+ for tickets without resorting to conspiracies about price fixing, you clearly don't understand the basics of business and economics.

As always with the chuds, I mildly criticize Trump for stuff he did while already failed to do as president and these guys go absolutely ape shit. Congrats on knowing two people who died and ignoring the thousands of others who die due to presidential actions. What about the 13 soldiers that died under Biden during the Afghanistan pullout (that Trump organized with the Taliban)? What about Jamal Khashoggi who got murdered by MBS in Saudia Arabia that Trump did nothing about? What about the hundreds of people / kids who died in school shootings under Trump? Shut the fuck up about politics, since it's only the Trump nuthuggers who always bring up how he's going to save everything on a god-damn mongering forum as if we don't know who he is and what party he stands with. Better yet, stop crying about it, deflecting to something else (what does Laken Riley and illegal immigration have to do with price fixing, smart guy), when you get called out. As I said, I don't care about Dems or Reps, I just call BS when I see it.

[QUOTE=TheDerilious;2962907]Buddy, you clearly don't understand anything I'm saying for some reason, though I imagine the Trump spunk has made you drunk. I keep telling you the difference between predatory pricing (legal, public, and unsavory) and price-fixing (illegal, collusion). One of those (predatory selling) is completely fine under capitalism unless you advocate for socialist policy like price controls (e. G. The capping of insulin prices to $35). The other is illegal because it has been deemed to be anti-capitalist and unfair to an absolute degree. There is a fine line between the two and it often comes down to how "public" and "justified" the pricing model is and the "freedom" of the consumer to find alternatives. In your studies, you'll learn that airports are not a case of price fixing (the airlines offer a much better example when it comes to fuel surcharges) but rather in the market equilibrium that forms in a unique economic environment (richer people in airports than the surrounding area, security cost increases, consumer values shift, etc.). Consumers are given alternatives like free water fountains and shitty vending machines and low-cost dining like McDs are also available within the confines of the airport. You'll eventually learn this when you finish your intro courses, I guess. You can probably skip your upcoming Econ 201 class since I gave you the gist of it ;p.

Truthfully, you read too much Twitter brainrot where someone posts a bar receipt from an upscale restaurant that is certainly shitty, but not indicative of the real environment at airports. If you need cheap food, go to the McDs or buy the cafe snacks. But if you can't understand why they charge $4 dollars for a bag of chips when 90% of their customers are paying $100+ for tickets without resorting to conspiracies about price fixing, you clearly don't understand the basics of business and economics..[/QUOTE]You really do have a diminished level of intelligence.

Anytime something is marked up 800% above its fair market value, it is a scam, a rip off, a company taking advantage of its customers, whatever you want to call it. And when multiple vendors collude together to keep prices artificially high, that is price fixing.

You can sugarcoat it all you want and say it isn't a scam, it's just predatory but in reality a ripoff and a scam are the same thing.

I doubt you have an MBA, you claim you do but you haven't shown any proof to back it up. Also your liberal douchebag ideals would suggest the contrary. You probably have a degree in liberal arts or music LOL.

Also the 13 soldiers whom you mentioned were not civilian women and children, they were not innocent bystanders killed by an illegal immigrant who shouldn't have been in the country in the first place, but was allowed in by Biden. They were soldiers in the line of duty and they signed up to be fighting and unfortunately lost their lives. There is a big difference between joining the armed forces and getting killed and being a 12 year old girl and getting raped and and killed by an caught and released illegal immigrant. Shame on you for even comparing the two.

Also back to the point at hand you admit the airport is a rip off but you say it's not a scam? You say it is predatory but yet it perfectly fine. Well I say it's a scam, we will just have to agree to disagree but I'm sure you will respond back with some more bickering and name calling. I'll be the bigger man and say let's just agree to disagree.

Respectfully,

Gabacho.

[QUOTE=TheDerilious;2962907]Buddy, you clearly don't understand anything I'm saying for some reason, though I imagine the Trump spunk has made you drunk. I keep telling you the difference between predatory pricing (legal, public, and unsavory) and price-fixing (illegal, collusion). One of those (predatory selling) is completely fine under capitalism unless you advocate for socialist policy like price controls (e. G. The capping of insulin prices to $35). The other is illegal because it has been deemed to be anti-capitalist and unfair to an absolute degree. There is a fine line between the two and it often comes down to how "public" and "justified" the pricing model is and the "freedom" of the consumer to find alternatives. In your studies, you'll learn that airports are not a case of price fixing (the airlines offer a much better example when it comes to fuel surcharges) but rather in the market equilibrium that forms in a unique economic environment (richer people in airports than the surrounding area, security cost increases, consumer values shift, etc.). Consumers are given alternatives like free water fountains and shitty vending machines and low-cost dining like McDs are also available within the confines of the airport. You'll eventually learn this when you finish your intro courses, I guess. You can probably skip your upcoming Econ 201 class since I gave you the gist of it ;p.

Truthfully, you read too much Twitter brainrot where someone posts a bar receipt from an upscale restaurant that is certainly shitty, but not indicative of the real environment at airports. If you need cheap food, go to the McDs or buy the cafe snacks. But if you can't understand why they charge $4 dollars for a bag of chips when 90% of their customers are paying $100+ for tickets without resorting to conspiracies about price fixing, you clearly don't understand the basics of business and economics..[/QUOTE]Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's a scam either:

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As a frequent traveler for both work and leisure, I've become pretty good at navigating many of the frustrations people tend to have at airports.

I check in online and travel with carry-on bags only wherever possible to avoid lines at check-in. I always have my liquids already packaged in a clear bag so I can zip through security.

One thing that still surprises me, however, is the quality and cost of food available in airports. I navigate this particular frustration by doing my best to avoid airport food outlets entirely.

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There's a scene from the iconic 1990's sitcom "Seinfeld" where Jerry Seinfeld discusses the cost of food in airports during a stand-up set which still makes me chuckle to this day for its accuracy.

Do you think that the people at the airport that run the stores have any idea what the prices are everyplace else in the world, or do you think they just feel they have their own little country out there and they can charge anything they want? "You hungry? Tuna sandwich is $9. Tuna is very rare here. ".

I think the whole airport / airline complex is a huge scam just to sell the tuna sandwiches. I think that profit is what's supporting the whole air travel industry. I mean, think about it. The terminals, the airplanes. It's all just a distraction so that you don't notice the beating that you're taking on the tuna.

Adjusted for inflation, that $9 in 1990 would now be $19. Every time I think of the outrageous prices of food and drinks in airport terminals, I always grin, remembering how ridiculous the prices were in the early 1990's and how they have remained so.

Related: How simply doing my food shopping earned enough miles for a flight to New York.

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My own memories are of being asked to pay $10 for a bottle of water at Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) in the Dominican Republic earlier this year (I gasped, handed it back and walked out). Also, I once paid $17.50 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) for a terrible, pre-made chicken wrap that was so "un-fresh" the edges of the wrap had gone soggy and mushy.

Jerry Seinfeld and I aren't the only ones who have noticed. Early this year, a $27 beer led the agency that oversees the three major New York City-area airports to crack down on sky-high prices being charged for food and drinks.

An investigation by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has oversight over John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), found multiple instances of beer and food being sold to travelers in these airports at "totally indefensible" prices.

[URL]https://thepointsguy.com/news/never-buy-food-in-an-airport/[/URL]

So why aren't you emailing the author of this article to troll him and explain to him how he is wrong?

Why don't you call the port authority of New York and New Jersey and tell them to drop their investigation because it is legal??

How about your jealous douchebag ass just gets off my dick?

You're just jealous because I have more real life mongering experience than. You, having mongered in USA, Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia. I have now mongered on 3 different continents and many different islands.

So what is the real reason that you've had a hard on for me for months? Because I've seen you bring up my handle even before this airport nonsense.

Gabacho.

[QUOTE=Gabacho;2963497]Also back to the point at hand you admit the airport is a rip off but you say it's not a scam? You say it is predatory but yet it perfectly fine. Well I say it's a scam, we will just have to agree to disagree but I'm sure you will respond back with some more bickering and name calling. I'll be the bigger man and say let's just agree to disagree.[/QUOTE]So in the end, you still have no reading comprehension since I have said repeatedly predatory is bad, but not illegal. You still don't understand the basic assertion that ascribing conspiracy to natural greed does no favors to actually resolving the situation. If the problem is price-fixing, then you remedy that with criminal remediation (cops, investigation, etc.). If the answer is extreme pricing, you can often resolve it through legal controls (price ceilings, regulations) or consumer action (not buying at those locations, lobbying politicians to take legal action). It's simple stuff that requires you to think further than "hero / daddy will make the bad guys go away". Political ad-homs aside, since you literally ignored the point I made to pearl clutch like a soy cuck (extreme lefties and righties love to cry), this goes beyond left / right divides towards actual populist action.

BTW, when you want to agree to disagree, you don't precede that with more ad-homs and "getting the last word". You also don't make another post right after it LOL. You just say, "let's agree to disagree" and let your point go. So I appreciate you stepping back and accepting that you were wrong about what a scam is. Clearly, you finally started to understand you were talking out of your ass and had to back down. Next time, I recommend avoiding the weird shadow boxing with an imaginary democrat operative tangent that you went down.

[QUOTE=Gabacho;2963502]You're just jealous because I have more real life mongering experience than. You, having mongered in USA, Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia. I have now mongered on 3 different continents and many different islands.

So what is the real reason that you've had a hard on for me for months? Because I've seen you bring up my handle even before this airport nonsense.[/QUOTE]Are you okay, bro? This is a bad look and a real case of projection. I don't even know who you are; I just respond to posts I disagree with from time to time that I think are important to call out. I have numerous reports from all around the world, I've given advice when I can, and I debate when there is time. It seems like you got a little ass-mad when I disagreed with you and took it way to personally. I couldn't give a shit about how many places you've been, the 10's you've banged, or how cheap you get it, you said something stupid and I disagreed. And if you think your body count even matters when it comes to business concepts, you are clearly still a delusional frat boy. Still, as a word of friendly advice, you need to take it easy on the politics stuff. I barely needled you on the Trump stuff and you shat all over yourself. Also, reading comprehension is important. Unlike others, I read your link and all it said is that the state gov is looking into indefensible pricing which literally has nothing to do with price-fixing and relates to extreme pricing strategies. It's literally making my point.

Take a breath. Don't take forum conversation so personally. And most importantly, don't brag about body count numbers on a god-damn mongering forum. LOL.

I have been traveling internationally for business and pleasure for 35 years. As and investor I have always been curious about prices. I was taught this test by a very successful stock market investor. He told me to always look at the price of a [U]Big Mac[/U] in the country you were visiting. Another thing he told me is to take a look at the price of a [U]Big Mac[/U] in town and compare it to the price of a [U]Big Mac[/U] in the airport.

Over 35 years of traveling the price of a [U]Big Mac[/U] is always significantly higher in the airport than out in town. Same product. Higher price. So let's inject some common sense in to the price fixing discussion. The old analogy of a duck comes to mind.

[B]Man Law 101[/B]: [I]no man ought to be telling another man how to spend his hard earned money or how to live[/I].

[QUOTE=TheDerilious;2963765]So in the end, you still have no reading comprehension since I have said repeatedly predatory is bad, but not illegal. You still don't understand the basic assertion that ascribing conspiracy to natural greed does no favors to actually resolving the situation. If the problem is price-fixing, then you remedy that with criminal remediation (cops, investigation, etc.). If the answer is extreme pricing, you can often resolve it through legal controls (price ceilings, regulations) or consumer action (not buying at those locations, lobbying politicians to take legal action). It's simple stuff that requires you to think further than "hero / daddy will make the bad guys go away". Political ad-homs aside, since you literally ignored the point I made to pearl clutch like a soy cuck (extreme lefties and righties love to cry), this goes beyond left / right divides towards actual populist action.

BTW, when you want to agree to disagree, you don't precede that with more ad-homs and "getting the last word". You also don't make another post right after it LOL. You just say, "let's agree to disagree" and let your point go. So I appreciate you stepping back and accepting that you were wrong about what a scam is. Clearly, you finally started to understand you were talking out of your ass and had to back down. Next time, I recommend avoiding the weird shadow boxing with an imaginary democrat operative tangent that you went down.[/QUOTE]I understand perfectly fine that you are saying predatory is not illegal.

I am also saying I don't care if it's illegal or not, I consider it to be a scam.

Just as I consider you to be a douchbag troll.

I literally said in my last posts that you would respond with more bickering and name calling and that is exactly what you did. If anyone is proving anyone's point it is you proving my point that you are a troll.

Now get off dick.

-Gabacho.

[QUOTE=Gabacho;2963851]I understand perfectly fine that you are saying predatory is not illegal.

I am also saying I don't care if it's illegal or not, I consider it to be a scam.

[/QUOTE]I hate to put a lid on the obvious fun you are both having, but why don't you just agree that you have different definitions of the word 'scam'? It's not so difficult to understand or accept. Just like different definitions of 'woman' exist. No point trying to tell others that they are wrong, just that they use a different definition.

[QUOTE=Gabacho;2963851]I understand perfectly fine that you are saying predatory is not illegal. I am also saying I don't care if it's illegal or not, I consider it to be a scam.[/QUOTE]I have to agree with you brother.

Just remember we are not dealing with a individual of solid character. He is over in the Thailand Rants threads attacking me. I have responded to him. I made a claim of where he was going to binThailand, but never filed a report about his activities there.

A lot of push back comes from individuals who a stuck in sex prison waiting from their next work release pass in order to become a [B]International Trick[/B] again. My business back ground. Owning. Hiring others smarter than me in the areas I need expertise. Traveling. Being a [B]International Trick[/B]. Knowing that you treat girls that are prostitutes differently than you treat girls with whom you have an emotional connection. If you are going to treat them all the same you are saying girls that hire as prostitutes are the same as girls that do not prostitute themselves. That is some pretty naive thinking. There is a reason that expressions like: [I]you cannot make a ho in to a housewife[/I] or [I]Dont a a Captain Save-a-Ho[/I] exist. Prostitutes call us customers or sponsors not boyfriends or husbands. Now, why I man claiming the level of experience that is is does not understand that, I have NO idea.

Why he writing about price fixing anyway? He talking business. We getting pussy in SEA. I got pussy waiting for me to get back to LATAM. Just remember we are men in the arena. It is not the critic who counts. Let him be a critic. You finish writing your reports and get some pussy. He finishes writing his report and beats his dick to porn.

[B]Holla! I know I do when I blow my splooge all up in them[/B]!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2963928]
Just remember we are not dealing with a individual of solid character. He is over in the Thailand Rants threads attacking me. I have responded to him. I made a claim of where he was going to binThailand, but never filed a report about his activities there.

[B]Holla! I know I do when I blow my splooge all up in them[/B]![/QUOTE]Yeah seems you are still huffing your own splooge. You must be a time traveler too because I haven't engaged with you in like two months. But the worst of it is, you're just a liar and nothing more.

I actually DID post my report during my trip to Bangkok so why don't you take that back, dumbass. It was a long post where I went into various different options I tried and whether I felt they were worth it or not. If I didn't post reports, I wouldn't be on this forum. I even report my travels on specific boards (Canada has their own boards that is more lively than the ISG board, and I post spanish language reports on the Colombia board).

In regards to your sex prison stuff, I can only laugh. How a man chooses to live his life (as long as he isn't hurting others) is not your business and I only find that insecure boys / cucks like to push themselves as better. I can only say that I have a happy, fulfilling life that I have no interest going into with random dudes on the internet. If you had to go out of country to get that, that's all good and more power to you. But it seems to me that you always you bring up this sex prison BS as some sort of coping mechanism for your own insecurity. Stop worrying about how other men live their lives; there are rich and poor men alike who choose to live state-side with a happy single / married life who like to take vacations for pleasure, while still enjoying their home countries "diverse offerings" rather than uproot their business, families, careers, and lives to live in the third world, lording over poor people and hunting poon.

[QUOTE=Gabacho;2963851]I literally said in my last posts that you would respond with more bickering and name calling and that is exactly what you did. If anyone is proving anyone's point it is you proving my point that you are a troll.
[/QUOTE]You said to "agree to disagree" and then posted right afterward that with adhoms, name-calling, and argument. You really don't get what those words mean, do you? Disagreeing is not trolling, by the way. I would be a troll if I wasn't continuing to make reasoned points, but it seems you are still too triggered to move on. Don't worry, I'll show you how it's done, brother. You were wrong about price-fixing and some grand airline conspiracy, so you've pivoted to just saying you consider extreme pricing to be a scam, which is a simple motte and bailey. You clearly won't admit being wrong and that you did shift the conversation so I'll just say, "let's agree to disagree".

And since I understand what that means, I won't respond to your next attempt so you can get the last word, big boy.

[QUOTE=JustTK;2963880]I hate to put a lid on the obvious fun you are both having, but why don't you just agree that you have different definitions of the word 'scam'? It's not so difficult to understand or accept. Just like different definitions of 'woman' exist. No point trying to tell others that they are wrong, just that they use a different definition.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I'm done, but I do want to note that the argument was actually about whether airlines are committing a price-fixing conspiracy, not whether high prices are a scam. He shifted the argument when he couldn't find evidence of price-fixing and need to find an easier ground to stay on (motte and bailey). I tried to get it back on track to the original assertion but it never moved back. Either way, I'm done with the performative crybaby act and whining about name-calling, while he does the same thing.

[QUOTE=TheDerilious;2963999]Yeah seems you are still huffing your own splooge. You must be a time traveler too because I haven't engaged with you in like two months. But the worst of it is, you're just a liar and nothing more.

I actually DID post my report during my trip to Bangkok so why don't you take that back, dumbass. It was a long post where I went into various different options I tried and whether I felt they were worth it or not. If I didn't post reports, I wouldn't be on this forum. I even report my travels on specific boards (Canada has their own boards that is more lively than the ISG board, and I post spanish language reports on the Colombia board).

In regards to your sex prison stuff, I can only laugh. How a man chooses to live his life (as long as he isn't hurting others) is not your business and I only find that insecure boys / cucks like to push themselves as better. I can only say that I have a happy, fulfilling life that I have no interest going into with random dudes on the internet. If you had to go out of country to get that, that's all good and more power to you. But it seems to me that you always you bring up this sex prison BS as some sort of coping mechanism for your own insecurity. Stop worrying about how other men live their lives; there are rich and poor men alike who choose to live state-side with a happy single / married life who like to take vacations for pleasure, while still enjoying their home countries "diverse offerings" rather than uproot their business, families, careers, and lives to live in the third world, lording over poor people and hunting poon.[/QUOTE]This motherfucker is full of shit. Contradicts himself all the time. He likes to quote self-written man law 101 about how he doesn't care what you do and how you spend your money, however he constantly reminds everyone here that he is in a better position living and tricking in 3rd world countries while other dudes are stuck in sex prison and can't travel as often as they would like to. Most of his posts are pure bragging about how successful and financially independent he is, how he escaped the slavery and other crap than nobody cares about. Mf repeats the same shit over and over and over and over again. Asks the same stupid questions which I have zero desire to respond to.

The Cmdr is rarely wrong. But in this case I am. I found your trip report [B]My bad[/B]!.

[QUOTE=TheDerilious;2963999]Yeah seems you are still huffing your own splooge. You must be a time traveler too because I haven't engaged with you in like two months. But the worst of it is, you're just a liar and nothing more.

I actually DID post my report during my trip to Bangkok so why don't you take that back, dumbass. It was a long post where I went into various different options I tried and whether I felt they were worth it or not. If I didn't post reports, I wouldn't be on this forum. I even report my travels on specific boards (Canada has their own boards that is more lively than the ISG board, and I post spanish language reports on the Colombia board).[/QUOTE]You are a [B]Internaitonal Trick[/B] just like I am. You simply choose to live in the United States of America and I don't. So, don't ever think you are better than anyone else posting up in here. This includes [B]MiamiBoy[/B] who it seems you have called in for back up.

Enjoy my update in Thailand. As for your characterization of my life, let it be know that that is just an attempt to exert your superiority over others. You are an idiot. The third world does not exist anymore. I do everything that I did in the United Staes of America but with increased lifestyle benefits that you cannot begin to understand being a [B]International Trick[/B] that has a countdown timer running from the moment you have wheels down in the country you are visiting.

[B]And speaking of being a liar are you in an open relationship where your partner knows that you are non monogamous?[/B]

[QUOTE=TheDerilious;2964009]Yeah, I'm done, but I do want to note that [B] the argument was actually about whether airlines are committing a price-fixing conspiracy, not whether high prices are a scam. [/B] He shifted the argument when he couldn't find evidence of price-fixing and need to find an easier ground to stay on (motte and bailey). I tried to get it back on track to the original assertion but it never moved back. Either way, I'm done with the performative crybaby act and whining about name-calling, while he does the same thing.[/QUOTE]I am done too, but I also want to point out that the argument was never about airlines committing price fixing, it was about food and beverage vendors inside of airport terminals committing price fixing.

It started with me agreeing with Turgid that food vendors at the airport are a scam and that they are colluding with one another within the same terminal to sell food and drink for much higher prices than market value ie price fixing.

I shower numerous scenarios and examples of this being the case, I even linked an article to an agency that investigated an airport in New York for price fixing. And I used a personal example of mine from Colombia where domestic terminals allow you to bring in outside food and drink but in comparison to the US airports which do not allow that which supports my claim that the US govt supports the price fixing.

The high prices inside airports is a scam and so is the collusion among the vendors to maintain thr high prices because otherwise we se more low end vendors inside the airports as you do see in some other countries.

I stand by what I said.

Gabacho.