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07-06-2022, 01:45 PM
15 hours ago
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Like many cities do, the Saiki City Commerce and Industry Promotion Division set up a stimulus scheme in which people can purchase gift certificates worth more than the price paid for them. In other words, those who spend 10,000 yen (US$77) will receive 13,000 yen (US$100) in certificates, provided they spend them within a certain amount of time. It’s a pretty sweet deal, so of course one household could only order a maximum of three books through a postcard application.
However, the city seemed to have overestimated demand and had 24,000 books left over from their initial supply of 60,000. So, they decided to put them out by direct sales which were outsourced to another company. This created a problem in that the company couldn’t realistically enforce the three-book limit because they couldn’t collectively remember the face of every single person coming to the counter every day.
As a result, several people were said to have simply gone back on different days to buy more than their allotted coupons. There was little the company could do about it either, so they instructed clerks to sell whatever number of books the customers ask for
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The customer then handed over 4.46 million yen (US$34,000) in gift certificates and as a result got 1,338,000 yen (US$10,000) worth of vouchers for free.
Much better to read the full article as it involves buying a car: https://soranews24.com/2022/06/06/saiki-...tificates/
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Like many cities do, the Saiki City Commerce and Industry Promotion Division set up a stimulus scheme in which people can purchase gift certificates worth more than the price paid for them. In other words, those who spend 10,000 yen (US$77) will receive 13,000 yen (US$100) in certificates, provided they spend them within a certain amount of time. It’s a pretty sweet deal, so of course one household could only order a maximum of three books through a postcard application.
However, the city seemed to have overestimated demand and had 24,000 books left over from their initial supply of 60,000. So, they decided to put them out by direct sales which were outsourced to another company. This created a problem in that the company couldn’t realistically enforce the three-book limit because they couldn’t collectively remember the face of every single person coming to the counter every day.
As a result, several people were said to have simply gone back on different days to buy more than their allotted coupons. There was little the company could do about it either, so they instructed clerks to sell whatever number of books the customers ask for
......
The customer then handed over 4.46 million yen (US$34,000) in gift certificates and as a result got 1,338,000 yen (US$10,000) worth of vouchers for free.
Much better to read the full article as it involves buying a car: https://soranews24.com/2022/06/06/saiki-...tificates/
