Man Pays For New Truck With $12,000 In Small Bills And Coins
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[QUOTE]A candy seller in China paid for his new truck with a mountain of small change.
He brought 80,000 yuan ($12,000) in small denomination bills and coins to the auto dealership in Southeast China last Monday, the South China Morning Post reports.
The cash weighed at least half a ton and was stuffed inside 10 crates in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, according to the People's Daily Online. [/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Mashable reports mammoth deposit stunned staff. "I have never seen so much cash in my life," sales manager Gu Liyuan said.
But dealership manager Yang Huai said the man, surnamed Cai, was a "loyal customer and has already bought four cars from us, so we have to help him solve this problem."
The cash weighed at least half a ton and was stuffed inside 10 crates.[/QUOTE]
That one girl in the back of the picture looks like she was the one counting the whole damn thing.
[I]I don't get paid enough for this shit[/I]
Ya they really trust the banks there don't they
i wonder if they counted it by hand or brought out a bill-counting machine
[QUOTE=aznz888;49555081]i wonder if they counted it by hand or brought out a bill-counting machine[/QUOTE]
have you priced those things lately?
[QUOTE=aznz888;49555081]i wonder if they counted it by hand or brought out a bill-counting machine[/QUOTE]
The second one, and he counted the bills by hand.
[QUOTE=Sableye;49555134]have you priced those things lately?[/QUOTE]
the sort that just count bills rather than sort them are like $50. I would happily sort out 350 yuan to not have to count all that. it looks like all 1 yuan notes so it should be trivial to sort out any 5s or 10s
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the article says "thirteen employees spent 10 hours counting the money" so assuming all 80,000 yuan is in 1 yuan notes (should be fair, it's probably a reasonable distribution between 1/2 yuan coins, 1 yuan notes and coins, and 5 yuan notes and coins) and it takes 20 minutes to count to 1000 (should be quicker if anything) then it should take 1600 minutes, or 26 hours combined time. so not only were they counting by hand, 10 of the 13 weren't pulling their weight.
Wait you can buy a new truck for 12k equivalent in China? Or was it like a new to him kind of truck?
[QUOTE=Npc_Hydra3;49556161]Wait you can buy a new truck for 12k equivalent in China? Or was it like a new to him kind of truck?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure insurance and other kind of deals aren't included in a normal Chinese car sale. However, prices are also much cheaper there. So 12000 USD for a car is very possible.
[QUOTE=aznz888;49555081]i wonder if they counted it by hand or brought out a bill-counting machine[/QUOTE]
They have a lot of bill counting machines to fight counterfeit bills, even if you pay with a single 100 yuan bill they will put it through the counting machine to check if it's real.
Damn, that's one prosperous candy seller if I've ever seen one. 12.000 $ in hard cash for this car, and the manager says he had already bought another 4 trucks previously.
[QUOTE=Npc_Hydra3;49556161]Wait you can buy a new truck for 12k equivalent in China? Or was it like a new to him kind of truck?[/QUOTE]
Less tax, in The Netherlands a BMW 1 series new costs about 30k without all the taxes it's about 20k.
[QUOTE=Npc_Hydra3;49556161]Wait you can buy a new truck for 12k equivalent in China? Or was it like a new to him kind of truck?[/QUOTE]
That's nothing, a Prius cost $150 000
[editline]18th January 2016[/editline]
In Singapore
[QUOTE=Npc_Hydra3;49556161]Wait you can buy a new truck for 12k equivalent in China? Or was it like a new to him kind of truck?[/QUOTE]
Easily, Chinese F150 equivalents start at under 10k.
[QUOTE=Npc_Hydra3;49556161]Wait you can buy a new truck for 12k equivalent in China? Or was it like a new to him kind of truck?[/QUOTE]
a new nissan frontier is $18 grand new. it's not unreasonable to think you could buy some kind of china domestic mini truck for 12 new.
Didn't this happen last year? Or at least I recall a similar story.
Yeah this story is old
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