News Forum - Overpriced mangosteens in Phuket go viral on Tiktok – how much per kilo!?

[Thaiger]

A Thai TikToker has shared a video of a street vendor in Phuket selling mangosteens at the rather steep price of 500 baht per kilogram, considered too expensive for Thai people (or anyone for that matter). The Tiktoker said she didn’t mean to offend the seller by claiming that the price was ridiculously high, but merely sought out other people’s opinions about the price. Not surprisingly she found that her viewers also thought it the mangosteens were overpriced. The video features a local fruit vendor spruiking various kinds of fruits, but the footage focuses on the pile of mangosteens with […]

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[Jason]

Good thing I don't like them

[mediagator]

Finally light coming to all the traps and scams of Phuket.

[Janneman]

Lots of things are overpriced these days. Mangosteen, pork meat, gasoline, PCR tests ... Time for the government to take action!

[LoongFred]

16 minutes ago, Janneman said:

Lots of things are overpriced these days. Mangosteen, pork meat, gasoline, PCR tests ... Time for the government to take action!

Overpriced in Phuket isn't news. It's everyday. 

[palooka]

50 baht a kilo our way in Sa Kaeo

[Convert54]

Asking price is for the suckers.

[Dedinbed]

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The video features a local fruit vendor spruiking various kinds of fruits,

What the duck is spruiking ? 

[Faraday]

4 minutes ago, Dedinbed said:

What the duck is spruiking ? 

I'd never heard of it either, it's a word used by sales persons to speak in public.

 

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/spruik

 

 

[Bluesofa]

35 minutes ago, Dedinbed said:

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The video features a local fruit vendor spruiking various kinds of fruits,

What the duck is spruiking ? 

Reading it in the context above gives me the impression it might be some sort of deviant behaviour to poke a hole into a water melon.

[Chatogaster]

It may be different elsewhere in the country, but I expect THB 40 - 60, depending on whereabouts in the season. Outside of the season, mangosteens are not to be seen (quite literally, since a price tag of 500 would cause immediate and permanent blindness).
 

[Fortuner]

This is the outcome of politics regards no tourists in Thailand. Simple as that!

[Poolie]

1 hour ago, Fortuner said:

This is the outcome of politics regards no tourists in Thailand. Simple as that!

What is? Expensive mangosteens? If you say so....(nurse, he's out of bed again..)

[MikeW]

6 hours ago, palooka said:

50 baht a kilo our way in Sa Kaeo

Are they available yet? Last year it seemed like most of the ones I bought that looked good were bad 

[joseph]

I send the maid. She carries a large meat cleaver everywhere. At 68 she is worried about the thalungs. 

 

[HiuMak]

14 hours ago, Janneman said:

Lots of things are overpriced these days. Mangosteen, pork meat, gasoline, PCR tests ... Time for the government to take action!

Hyper inflation. Thank goodness for social media. Boycott these stalls

[palooka]

8 hours ago, MikeW said:

Are they available yet? Last year it seemed like most of the ones I bought that looked good were bad 

Yes, not in a large quantity yet. Locals here think 50 baht is super expensive.  Usually 3 kilo for 100 baht.

[Rookiescot]

Down with this kind of thing.

[Grumpish]

Everything in Phuket is way overpriced. When the tourists are plentiful they can get away with it, and why not - but not when tourists are as thin on the ground as they are at the moment. But then there is also that odd Thai logic on pricing - no demand, too expensive, put the price up. 

[MikeW]

7 hours ago, palooka said:

Yes, not in a large quantity yet. Locals here think 50 baht is super expensive.  Usually 3 kilo for 100 baht.

I live in prachinburi and haven't seen any yet 

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

On 2/22/2022 at 5:02 PM, Thaiger said:

A Thai TikToker has shared a video of a street vendor in Phuket selling mangosteens at the rather steep price of 500 baht per kilogram, considered too expensive for Thai people (or anyone for that matter). The Tiktoker said she didn’t mean to offend the seller by claiming that the price was ridiculously high,

So the TikToker offended the seller ….. we now just have to wait for the next news article ….. TikToker being sued for bad review of fruit stand .