Gay Boy Thailand

I am procrastinating. I was supposed to advertise some used things for sale, but put it off due to Songkran. I figured few buyers wanted to risk the water wars to come and look at our stuff.

But now Songkran is over and I really should get going. I need to take pictures of the items, write ads in English and have Chalerm translate them to Thai and put them on the Internet.

Chalerm has offered to sell his digital camera. He doesn’t use it anymore. He is using the camera in his mobile phone instead. And then we have an HP photo printer we don’t need since the Epson printer we have is cheaper to run, and some lights and flashes and a photo backdrop which I never got around to use. And a large, heavy tripod. It is too bulky to carry around and I use a smaller tripod instead.

I don’t know what we will get for this stuff, but it should add up to ten thousand baht or more. It’s money.

When I have sold used stuff in Farangland I have set a fair, fixed price and sold it at that price. People have showed up and said: “That’s a good price. I’ll take it”. But I don’t think that would work here.

I need to put at least 20% haggle room on top of the prices when I put in the ads. Thai buyers think they must bargain or else I am cheating them. They start haggling on the phone, before they even have seen the item. The people who bought our old TV did that.

I will put Chalerm’s phone number in the ads and let him deal with it.

Sometimes I joke that we get broke we can sell him. Chalerm jokes back that I can put on dark glasses and hold a plastic cup in front of me at the stairs to the Skytrain station. I wonder who of us would make more money.