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I don't understand Jim's deal. He wanted to charge our protagonist MORE money per bulb than he would charge someone buying less garlic? Why?
Was it a deeply shortsighted, cynical attempt to turn a quick buck? Was Jim weirded out by the dynamic forming with TokyoSunbather and was trying to put some distance between them? Was there some sort of subtle dynamic occurring where TokyoSunbather would take the best bulbs and leave only shitty ones behind, and that was causing subsequent customers to perceive Jim's stock as low-quality, thereby negatively affecting his reputation?
I don't understand. Something is missing. TokyoSunbather is either holding something back, or is overlooking a key detail. Either way I want to know. It doesn't make sense. Jim doesn't make sense. What is the missing piece I need to know.
Oh good, I'm glad someone else is asking this question. The whole story hinges on it, and it doesn't make sense.
I'm assuming someone rewrote the events that happened to Hoy Fong Sriracha
Maybe or maybe Jim is mean
Or Jim was in fact giving OP a deal and could no longer afford it
Why not both?! Lol
I thought the story there was the sauce producer wanted to diversify who he was buying from so if his friend the pepper grower had a bad harvest, he could still produce some sauce. Said pepper grower became quite irate that his former friend didn't trust him enough to rely on his harvest alone. Is that not what happened?
Or, and hear me out, somebody made up a story and posted it in the internet.
Even if it's made up, there's still more we want to know.
Could be an AI made story, garlic only lasts about 6 months before spoiling. Seems like the kind of mistake AI would make.
Does the 60% mean he was buying 60% of ALL of Jim's garlic? That would be pretty annoying, to have someone clean you every week and have none for other customers. Obviously selling all your stock is great, but everyone else needs some too.
60% seems pretty good though? Like 40% for everyone else still sounds like alot of garlic to go around.
I think it's saying they settled on 60%, I'm guessing that means it was all of it before.
But the guy wrote that he was paying normal prices/didn't get any bulk pricing.
But according to the story, he was buying at full price. No bulk discount. Jim was demanding more than his regular price. And, depending on when in the day he showed up, the price that Jim demanded fluctuated.
There's gotta be more to this.
Op hadn't showered throughout this whole ordeal and absolutely reeked of garlic
This is the most parsimonious hypothesis so far.
There was another tweet from before this one about "When the farmers market has a deal on bulk garlic" which leads me to believe he was getting a discount before and feels slighted at the removal. But who really knows? Either way I followed and am looking forward to an update.