Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Bar and Restaurant Questions and Discussions => Topic started by: usedbustickets on November 21, 2013, 10:51:40 AM
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My nomination for Bandit of the Week is Piknik Kebabs, which is located next to the Sultan Pasternasi, near to Turk Telecom in Fethiye. The Bandit award is for charging the mother in law - bless her - 10TL for a small plate of chicken donner and chips OR salad. Most places around the red carpet area of Fethiye charge 3.5 to 5 TL for the same dish. Shame as the food was good, but not that good!!
He was a twisting old bark, and I did tell him so, but he simply smiled cos he'd got the money, and he thought we would be on our way as merely disgruntled tourists. So take heed and avoid this place.
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The more members avoid places like this, the more that few lira ends up costing him. I'm in.
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"Bandit of the Week"?! Love the idea. Thanks for taking the time to report. Price gauging is one of the major problems the local merchants of Fethiye are struggling with. Education is crucial in order to nip this short-sighted practice. Do we have a special area in this forum dedicated to this sort of 'reporting'? or is it scattered across different sub-forums as they become available? I would love to see a "Cheers & Jeers" area dedicated to Food, and another to all other service providers in town. What say the managers of this great forum? I for one would make sure the local merchants knew about it so they can monitor it as well.
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Could we present an award for the establishment that gets the most votes :-)
H could do it - with a CBF tin hat on!!
Seriously forewarned is forearmed.
We go to that area quite often and 5 lira is the norm - so this place is in the radar to avoid now.
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Perhaps put the name of the establishments and the words "rip off"
in extra large lettering so that it always stands out,easy to spot.
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Isnt it strange how we can all have different experiences! I was there today and to be honest have been a regular for years and it has always been a great ecperience. I have also recommended them on many occasions as the service is the quickest in town and it s only 3 half lira for kebab, chips and a drink. Sad to hear you had that bad exprience and very surprised.
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Surprised or not... He should treat everyone alike.. He obviously thought that they were tourists... This will cost him more than he robbed them of...
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Hoops I couldn't agree more the food was good and the service quick. However, I think he thought they were dealing with tourists - which they were with the in laws - and looking to make a quick doubling/trebling of the normal price at the tourist expense. I suspect that they do it all the time, from the way they re-acted when I challenged them. You might even want to mention it if you do happen to go again or, better still, pass by, that chances are his short term tucking of what he thought was a bit of tourist trade will cost him more in the future.
I have always disliked the triple pricing policy here that many businesses charge - Band 1 (lowest price) locals (Turkish) Band 2 (medium price) locals (non Turkish) and of course Band Three the golden band that are the prices they put on tourists.
I like the idea of an award for this sort of behavior, and I like the idea of H presenting the award in a tin hat (LOL) even more. ;D ;D
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Alot of the business people in Turkey have very strange ideas of longevity. The amount you see close every year with only a years trading under their belts! The reason i was surprised as this is a company who have been there for years and are packed every day of the week so you would think they dont need to do these under handed things to anyone for a few lira. That type of behaviour is unexceptable! I often go to the sultan pattisserie and i was duped out of 2 lira from one off the waiters but i clocked his scam and let him know i did. Some staff members can harm a company to no ends. Anyway, theres a lesson here, please ask the price if theres no price list up. That said remember they are not all the same and most places you will find honest staff but check the price list out otherwise you dont have a leg to stand on!!!
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I went to a builders merchant the other day with a Turkish builder to get some roof tiles etc from G'başi. I have been there quite a few times over the last 9 years and the guy speaks a little English.
I was very surprised when he said, '' Same price for everybody, English German, Turkish. All one price!'', this seemed to be an impromptu statement
He was very much against these different prices charged to foreigners.
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I went to one of the Beko shops on the back road a number of years back, to order aircon units. I went with a (trustworthy) builder. We listed the ones we needed and the builder went to ask what price they could do. The shop man did sums, I was standing there while he spoke to the builder I was with. After much discussion (all in Turkish - although the Beko man spoke good English) between builder and shop a total price was written down for me. We said our goodbyes and left. All good it seems.
Outside I was told that the shop man had come up with that price (which was a decent price apparently) and said to the builder (in Turkish) "That's what we can do them for, how much do you want me to tell him?"
And I have 50 similar stories at least.
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I called in a chemist opposite The Esnaf the other day and asked for an item in Turkish. He scanned the item and said "10 lira". I said "yok altı buçuk lira". "Oh sorry, altı buçuk" was the reply. A hike of 54% is "taking the mick". Wonder how many times he gets away with it.
If you are buying something from the chemist and know the name you can check the price before you go by opening the following link:
http://www.ilacabak.com/indexen.php
Eroğolu, the chemist, opposite Migros in town, is always honest and extremely helpful.
Nowadays, I find this happens less and less but before buying any household or electrical items, I price them in at least three shops and normally find the price is the same in all.
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We used to find that on the rare occasions we didn't ask "how much" that was the times we got ripped off...Always get the price first is our motto. With me it's not the 5TL it's the principal...One price for all...
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Anne - totally agree and there are few things worse than feeling you have been had over - doesn't matter if it's 1 or 100 lira with me either :-)
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When we first went to Patlancik we paid 5LT for a 1TL cauli.. it still hurts to this day. because he was laughing at uswith his buddies but he never got us again and none of our friends of which we had many.. It taught us a valuable lesson..
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I was thinking about this topic today - in particular the attitude that is a tenner today is better than the promise of a thousand next week.
I remember buying little bikes with stabilisers for the girls for their 4th birthday. I went to a bike shop and chose two bikes, both with a year's guarantee - the owner was absolutely clear to me and wanted to ensure I understood. "Anything, in a year bring it back and we fix it". Very nice too.
Anyway, a few months later the handlebar bolt became unable to hold the handlebars in position. It was quite dangerous, they'd be peddling away and suddenly the handlebars would fall and dip under rather than over.
Of course I took the bikes back and the owner couldn't remember me at all (!) and told me "not these ones. The next ones, higher price, these have guarantee. These bikes, no guarantee".
I argued furiously, more than I would these days and ultimately gave up. I took the bikes to a rustic motorbike mechanic's shack near the girls' school. How much? "2 lira enough".
In the next 4 years I was asked possibly 25 times if I could recommend a bike shop. I always brought people to shops rather than just recommend. I would say 40 bikes were bought through me taking people to a bike shop. But because of the refusal to do the 2 lira job, it wasn't that shop.
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Not local but very recent. We were very near the huge pazzar and ventured just a little way in, to have a quick coffee. Stopped at a basic kebab house and ordered 2 nescafes. which he sent out for. He charged Mick 13TL!!!!!!!! should have been no more than 4TL. We had some wonderful coffee experiences in Izmir and had never paid that price. Mick paid it, but I was livid and told him so. He just kept shrugging and saying that was the price and I just kept telling him he was thieving git. Can you imagine how much extra dosh they make from the huge cruise ships that dock there daily. Lesson learnt, there and then, even ask how much a coffee is........in the pazzar.
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Things like this really sadden me. To think that you have to query the price of coffee before ordering is so sad but unfortunately that can be the case today. Why, oh why can they not see past today?
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Or £18 for a glass of wine at the Sports Bar at Dalaman Airport
http://www.fethiyetimes.com/news/44-news/6618-dalaman-airport-meal-leaves-couple-p60-lighter.html
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Nothing to do with Calis or environs, but here goes anyway. We went on an end-of-season cheapie package holiday to Gumbet at the end of October. We always get a load of washing done before we return home, so off I walked to find a local laundrette. There were a couple of non-english speaking women in the laundrette and the guy from the next shop strolled over and acted as interpreter. They discussed in Turkish what I should be charged for the washload. I noted that they had decided on "onbeş". Bloke looks me in the eye and says "twenty lira". I have virtually no Turkish but I do understand numbers at least. "Ayer, onbeş" I reply. Much embarrasment ensued.
When I picked the washing up, I did actually give Yirmi/twenty. (after all it's a whole £1.50 difference) I said "onbeş?" with a nice smile and we all had a little laugh about it. However, if I ever get back to Gumbet, I know where to avoid.
To even it up, there was a fantastic patisserie just along the road, the woman there had about as much english as I had turkish. We always had a good laugh as we mutually destroyed others language, she always gave me a freebie of borek and I always bought a shed-load of her lovely stuff (mmm, baklava) for a very reasonable price. Would go back there tomorrow. If anyone is heading to Gumbet, I will give the address.
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My nomination for Bandit of the Week is Piknik Kebabs, which is located next to the Sultan Pasternasi, near to Turk Telecom in Fethiye. The Bandit award is for charging the mother in law - bless her - 10TL for a small plate of chicken donner and chips OR salad. Most places around the red carpet area of Fethiye charge 3.5 to 5 TL for the same dish. Shame as the food was good, but not that good!!
He was a twisting old bark, and I did tell him so, but he simply smiled cos he'd got the money, and he thought we would be on our way as merely disgruntled tourists. So take heed and avoid this place.
How big is the mother in law? Maybe he was trying help in his own strange way