There was a batch of 20,000 bottles of rum in Lithuania that wanted to sell to us. Later, after the Taiwan authorities learned of this matter, they asked the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Company to buy it. Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Company recently announced that this batch of liquor has been shipped to Taiwan, and began selling on February 1, the first batch of limited 6,000 bottles, 600 yuan per bottle of NT$600. As a result, some netizens came to the mainland website to check, found that the same wine only sold 30.99 yuan, Taiwan netizens said, Taiwan sold 600 new Taiwan dollars, a total of 137 yuan, the mainland only sold 31 yuan, Why is the price in Taiwan more than 4 times that of the mainland?
As soon as the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Company saw the dew filling, it ran out and said, because "freight and labor are costs", saying that "Taiwan's dock workers will not receive three thousand yuan a month like the other side."
Isn't that nonsense? First of all, the freight, from Lithuania to the mainland, from Lithuania to Taiwan, the distance is almost the same! How much worse can the shipping cost be? Could it be that this batch of wine arrived in Taiwan by boat and around the earth several times?
Speaking of labor costs, are wages high in Taiwan? The news that everyone sees every day is that Taiwan is now facing the dilemma of low wages, and wages have not risen much for many years. Why do you say that Taiwan's labor costs are high as soon as they find that things are expensive to sell? Moreover, Taiwan's statement that our mainland dock workers "receive three thousand yuan a month" is nonsense.
I specifically went to the recruitment website to check it, you see, on the recruitment advertisement, the wage of the dock porter in Shanghai is 9000-13000 a month, five insurances and one gold, but also packaged food and housing, double salary at the end of the year.
What about Taiwan, Taiwan's recruitment website, written is more than 25250 New Taiwan dollars, about 5767 yuan or more.
So from the perspective of salary level, what qualifications does Taiwan have to say that we are mainland? Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Company has made the same mistake of "not being able to afford to eat tea eggs" and "not being able to afford to squeeze vegetables".
This rum has gone up fourfold, does anyone want it? Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Company said, yes. The institutions that want to buy Lithuanian rum this time have Tsai Ing-wen's office and the foreign affairs department of the Taiwan authorities, and everyone says, you see, they are not spending their own money, so they will be so extravagant. The question is, what did Cai Ban and Taiwan's foreign affairs department buy this wine for? Drink at work? Or do you have to have a party after work? Some people say that maybe they don't drink it themselves, but give it away. That is even more wrong, the DPP says every day that it "loves the homeland", and to buy things to send people is also to send things produced by Taiwan itself.
Regardless of whether they drink it themselves or give it away, some Taiwan netizens said that they finally understood that this extra money is the price of "Taiwan value". The DPP authorities are talking about "Taiwan value" and "Taiwan value" every day, and now everyone has figured it out that one-quarter of the price of a thing is the original price of the thing, and three-quarters is the money of "Taiwan value."
But even if you spend four times as much, you won't be able to drink "Lithuanian flavors." Why? A professional in Taiwan went to check it out and found that this batch of rum was not made in Lithuania, and his origin was Trinidad and Tobago in North America. The wine is brewed in Trinidad and Tobago, shipped to Lithuania, bottled in Lithuania, and then shipped to Taiwan.
Although jokes have been made repeatedly, the Taiwan authorities do not seem to have any intention of stopping, saying that they will use NT Dollars to buy Lithuanian beer, chocolate, birch sap, and sparkling water.
It is estimated that the taiwanese people now want to ask the most question is, how many times have the prices of these things risen?