In Reply to: JBR posted by BarryW on Thursday, 5. November 2009 at 12:32 Bali Time:
How dare I go to Bali and have an experience different to yours... who do you think you are Baz to totally disregard any of my personal experiences as valid because nothing like this has ever happened to you?
Firstly the Sheppys experience, the place was originally recommended to us by numerous people staying at the same hotel as us as well as plenty of others around that we managed to talk to about places to eat, and the fact the place was packed out every night we were there or walked past gave us some idea of it being ok, the 'proprieter' as you called him was indeed a really nice bloke and quite helpful in advising us on some particular places we'd been thinking of going as far as day trips and shopping were concerned and even managed to help us gain a favourable outcome with a specific request for an item my partner wanted to buy but gee Baz you did go there what...once was it??? Well isn't that enough times for you to make an educated assumption one would think...not
Secondly, well you said it yourself Baz you've have never dealt with Mr Honeyman but that didn't stop you basically calling me a liar or whinger in general for even wanting to mention it. Maybe my problem with them is surprising Baz but believe me it is happening whether you want to believe it or not, I've sent numerous e-mails to the address on the card I was given and haven't had so much as an apology or anything at all, though I dare say Baz you'd think it was my fault no doubt for not going to the place you always go...
Thridly and most importantly you wanted to take me to task over my rubbishing of the clothes retailer and the absolute rip off merchant that is your family friend Romy, my only regret with the clothes retailer is the fact that I didn't go back and get the name of the place, because you seem to think I have to explain myself to you, once again Baz who in the hell do you think you are?????
I became fairly friendly with the couple who did our laundry and the husband was a big Casey Stoner fan as am I and he showed me his Casey Stoner shirt which I liked and wanted one of straight away so I asked where he got it from and he told me exactly where it was so off my girlfriend and I went to purchase the shirt for 80K as my laundry friend explained to me that's all he payed so I shouldn't pay anymore. As we approached the shop from the opposite side of the road, it was at the rear of a mini market sort of set up, 2 men started harassing my partner and I very aggressively trying to take us to a shop toward the one we were looking for, unfortunately it turned out these idiots actually worked at the shop in question so at the limit of my patience I asked them if they had the shirt I was looking for, which they did so I tried it on and it fitted nicely so I offered the bloke 80K for it to which he laughed and said 150K, we argued with him and I told him how my friend the laundry man had sent me there but he was just being an arsehole about it and wouldn't budge, as I hadn't seen the shirt anywhere else and we were in our last couple of days before we left I begrudgingly paid this ripoff merchant his money and told him I'd do my best to rubbish the name of his shop and him on my return home, another couple in the shop and arguing with another of the staff when we arrived waited outside for us and when we left they told us they had a fairly nasty experience in there as well. Which brings me to Mr Romy, after shopping at Silver Instinct my girlfriend and I were on our way back to our hotel when she spied a watch on display in a cabinet at this sad excuse for a business, she asked the bloke behind the counter if she could have a look at it which he obliged, after she tried it on and had a good look at it she bought it from him, we returned to our hotel and had a swim some lunch and while having lunch she pulled the watch out of her bag and tried to put it on and it immediately broke at the band, she wasn't too upset and seeing as we were staying just around the corner we decided to walk around and ask them if they could fix it for her. On our arrival at the stall the bloke who served us wasn't around so we explained our predicament to the new bloke behind the counter who after quickly glancing at the watch said they didn't sell those cheap types of watches at this shop, we were flabbergasted and couldn't believe this reaction, we demanded to see the owner and he was of the same opinion and an argument ensued, after a while I managed to find the original bloke who served us and he just blatantly lied about serving us at all, the blokes at the Silver Instinct shop even vouched for us going to the watch stall after their shop but these lying mongrels wouldn't tell the truth, the bloke who served us originally had a sly type of smirk on his face the whole time and I could just tell he was lying but as you say Bazza and as you would obviously know I'm probably at fault here and you family friend is the unscrupulous businessman you say he is after all I was there and experiencing this and you weren't but you'd know better
I showed my girlfriend your response to my JBR Baz and she just laughed and said I should tell you to get a life, but as I explained to her jerks like you don't have much of a life other than going around criticising everybody else for disagreeing with there way of life, as for calling me a coward Bazza, have a GOOD look in the mirror mate...now that's a coward.