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05/13/2013
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Site that gathers consumer complaints against abusive pricing comes to Rio de Janeiro
In the air for a month to host consumer complaints who feel harmed by paying, for example, R$ 12 for a salty at the bakery, the collaborative site # BoicotaSP is ready to expand its borders. With 150,000 daily views in such a short time, the project was born almost between four friends at the bar table will have a version in the coming days for the Marvelous City, the # BoicotaRJ that promises to shake up the relationship between customers and establishments in Rio through the winds of inflation.
Even before the land here, the project has its potential supporters. "I'll open the phone and send it to the site so feel hurt", explains the counter Fabricio Menezes, who works at Lapa and usually attend the bohemian bars and restaurants in Rio. "If you leave the next day, sometimes hungover, we give up. It's like going to Procon: in time you will have, but leaves and then gives up, "he adds.
One of the creators of the project, which had its first release on a Facebook page, the advertiser Danilo Corsi explains the strategic endeavor. "Let's just expand the project to meet the many requests we receive from consumers River," he says, that even has recorded the address of the digital future page (www.boicotarj.com.br). The site should go live in the next ten days.
Despite using the same system version São Paulo, a kind of blog fueled by the users with images and prices reported subjectively considered "above average", the creator admits that the experience in Rio de Janeiro is still unimaginable. "We will open a Pandora's Box. You can not say or designing anything. Only then will we know what will come of it there, "he adds, without risking comparisons.
With an eye on the price and the other in the product, the librarian Alberto Cyril, who works at the center, must be one of the collaborators of the initiative. "I always get a place already knowing the price. Still, I'm surprised expensive things and above the value, "he adds. After all, if the cheap can be expensive, as the saying goes, they want an answer to precisely the opposite: that will not be expensive, honestly cheaper?
The idea of presenting a flag against internet prices considered abusive emerged after the comings and goings of the group of friends consisting of advertising and Danilo Corsi, Camila Kintzel , Ricardo Giassetti and Marcos Takabayashi. Between a bar and another, and another an account, they decided they leave the comfort zone. "We have said for some time that the bar we spent R $ 40 last year, now charges R $ 80 for the same things. Then had a symbolic case: a friend of ours paid R $ 22 for a craft beer and the owner still wanted over R$ 10 for letting her take the bottle to your collection. We scored one establishment on Foursquare and made our criticism, but we were looking for something more ", explains Danilo.
Fair price is not the same as low
Fair price is different from low price. Who does this weighting is Antonio Rodrigues, a partner network of bars and restaurants Belmonte, one of the best known of Rio de Janeiro. Today, in addition to working with noble ingredients such as shrimp and cod in their main dishes, he points out that the operating costs are very high.
"Every time I make a purchase prices fluctuate greatly. Some days the bag of potatoes goes for $ 30 after costs U.S. $ 80. This variation complicates our work much and I can not pass it to the menu, "he says, still points out:" A single store has 25 employees, all with signed. Cost puts it there. "
Rodrigues is not afraid initiatives as the # BoicotaRJ, but by a few customers who often act in bad faith. "Somehow, you always have to give a reason to the client, even when he does not." Still, he makes a counterpoint: "There are many things outside the norm and people who want to earn more than fair. This needs to be fought. "
Source: The Day - Online
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