In Reply to: Beach hawker advice ? posted by shortytheyakker on Monday, 24. October 2011 at 12:42 Bali Time:
at the beach, not on the Kuta - Seminyak strip anyway. Its a simple equation. There is something like 200 000 000 ppl living in Indo. Its dog eat dog making a living there and the hawkers are going to go and "hawk" where the people are, that being down the beach.
Dont make eye contact and learn some indo. TIDAK means no, say it firmly and like you mean it and they probably will back off but youll always get one persistent hawker. Just ignore them and they will move on.