Before September 2023, when Chinese cigarettes were still hard currency, a classmate asked me in advance about his wedding. The market price at that time was 400-410. I told him, "Why don't you stock up now? I can get them for you at 400 now. Otherwise, the price will definitely go up before the new year, and they'll be hard to find." He said, "It's fine, I'll let you handle it when the time comes."
A week before his wedding, he asked me to get 30 packs for him, and they had to be local ones. I said, "That many?" I only had ten packs. I'd have to find them from other people at 420. He said okay, and told me to get as many as I could find and have them delivered. He said he'd give me travel expenses. It was a 100-kilometer round trip, so I said alright.
After I delivered them, he initially said he wasn't going to pay yet. I said all this money was out of my pocket upfront. Then he said, "Wasn't the price 400 like we agreed in the summer?" I said, "The price was different back then compared to now." He then claimed we had already agreed on that price, and started questioning whether I was taking advantage of his urgency and inability to find them elsewhere to raise the price. He just kept making excuses. Finally I said, "Fine, 400 it is."
After he paid, I didn't go to his wedding—another classmate brought a gift on my behalf. A few days later, he said the Chinese cigarettes he didn't use needed to be returned. I said the ones from my own stock I could take back, but the ones I found from other sources couldn't be returned. After that, I stopped associating with this classmate.
Before September 2023, when Chinese cigarettes were still hard currency, a classmate asked me in advance about his wedding. The market price at that time was 400-410. I told him, "Why don't you stock up now? I can get them for you at 400 now. Otherwise, the price will definitely go up before the new year, and they'll be hard to find." He said, "It's fine, I'll let you handle it when the time comes."
A week before his wedding, he asked me to get 30 packs for him, and they had to be local ones. I said, "That many?" I only had ten packs. I'd have to find them from other people at 420. He said okay, and told me to get as many as I could find and have them delivered. He said he'd give me travel expenses. It was a 100-kilometer round trip, so I said alright.
After I delivered them, he initially said he wasn't going to pay yet. I said all this money was out of my pocket upfront. Then he said, "Wasn't the price 400 like we agreed in the summer?" I said, "The price was different back then compared to now." He then claimed we had already agreed on that price, and started questioning whether I was taking advantage of his urgency and inability to find them elsewhere to raise the price. He just kept making excuses. Finally I said, "Fine, 400 it is."
After he paid, I didn't go to his wedding—another classmate brought a gift on my behalf. A few days later, he said the Chinese cigarettes he didn't use needed to be returned. I said the ones from my own stock I could take back, but the ones I found from other sources couldn't be returned. After that, I stopped associating with this classmate.