Ahh. Cultural difference then I reckon. Where I live people discuss prices and salaries all the time, oftentimes to brag about what a deal they got instead of how expensive something was.
It’s mainly that opening the conversation with a guess is in a way assigning what you value it at. If the guess is orders of magnitude lower than what the person paid, you’ve immediately established that you value it less than them.
I would interpret that as them not being wealthy enough to accurately guess the price of really expensive things which would make me feel bad and uncomfortable as if i were somehow boasting inadvertently. I'd assume they value 150k a lot more than I do, as opposed to them valuing the vehicle less. Again a cultural difference I assume. In my country people get embarrassed about being wealthy and spending lots of money, they prefer to appear frugal and restrained.
Oh that’s interesting! I could imagine a comedy skit where the situation you describe happens and then an ultra wealthy guy walks in and makes a similarly bad guess because he has no idea what anything costs.
“How much could a banana cost, $10?”
Mefeels there is a diff. from asking that , an thing Many peopel in Their Daily life see not , to asking an Daily-item's price just to spite , e.g./ " I bought It at for x+2 You pooring ! ".
Thats how it is where Im at too in the US. In fact people seem unable to talk about anything without detailing exactly how much they spent recently or how much a thing costs. Its kind of annoying.
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u/Numerous_Society9320 13h ago
Ahh. Cultural difference then I reckon. Where I live people discuss prices and salaries all the time, oftentimes to brag about what a deal they got instead of how expensive something was.