How Haggling Saved My Life

A Dutch auction is an auction started as high as the salesperson thinks they get away with, without alerting the buyer they're getting ripped. For me, who's not your average moron on the moron bell-curve this has been quite a costly learning process. If I was to paint this blog post as a coming of age story my trip to Palawan would have brought me up to infancy. Getting to Palawan, from Manila is a relatively painless affair and requires a taxi and a ticket. For anyone who has been or who's going to visit, if a taxi driver spends…

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