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Don't the Chinese have a saying which means 'Pay low price, expect to get screwed over'? Bangladesh is even worse than India.
by alexdrans 9y ago
Don't the Chinese have a saying which means 'Pay low price, expect to get screwed over'? Bangladesh is even worse than India.
- sqldba 9y agoI've read an article about Chinese culture of "good enough". That many apartments fall apart right after they're built because if you do 80% of the job then that's pretty much considered "done". Doing it correctly or completely isn't part of the contract.
- wpietri 9y agoThat was a great article: https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a... I don't know how true it is about China, but I certainly recognized that attitude.
- doppp 9y agoA more apt idiom is "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." [0] [0] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/if+you+pay+peanuts%2C+you+get+monkeys https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/if+you+pay+peanuts%2C+y...
- retrogradeorbit 9y agoanother is "you get what you pay for" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_get_what_you_pay_for https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_get_what_you_pay_for
- rhizome 9y agoAnother is "you don't get what you don't pay for."
- imron 9y agoThere are two similar sayings that spring to mind: 一分钱，一分货 which means you get the equivalent in goods of what you pay in price, and 好货不便宜，便宜无好货 which means good products aren't cheap and cheap products aren't good.