I'm going to beat my chest to say this:
I don't know about other continents, but I'm sure this negative feature is applicable to most of the countries in the world (if not all) because humans are bound to cheat.
I've had of multiple occasions where I paid for a commodity and later found out that what I paid for was less supplied. The most common item on my list is the purchase of gasoline and cooking gas. I remember almost fighting with a gas-filling roadside vendor because of such.
Let me share my recent experience...
The photo above is the kind of engine oil I've been using on my generator and I change it very often, say once every two weeks, because my generator overworks.
The day I went to buy that, my regular customer that I usually buy it from told me that, his own (that particular engine oil) had been exhausted. I wanted to buy another brand from him because he sells original qualities, but I remembered how I was advised not to use different brands to run my Generator. So I left and went to another shop.
I got there, pointed at the engine oil, and the lady told me the price, which was a little lower than what I used to buy it.
What a nice purchase! I quickly paid and didn't bother with anything else because we don't always get cheap things.
When I got home, I drilled out the condemned oil from the generator, and when I was about to pour in the new one, I noticed that its seal had been unsealed (unsealed and gummed back).
This is unbelievable!
I flipped off the spot of the seal that was temporarily gummed back, and I noticed that the oil had been drained out. A good amount of oil had been drained out.
"What's this??? I can't take this at all!"
I locked my door, picked it up, and went back to where I bought it.
"Look at what you sold me, a half-engine oil."
"What do you mean? Let me see," she pretentiously collected the engine oil from my hand. She viewed it and was like, "Oooooh God! These people again!"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"It's the wholesalers that sell these oils to us, they like to open the oil and extract some quantities to sell as their own," she narrated, with the mindset that she's talking to a 'mumu' (dullard)😂.
"Anyways, give me another one because I can't buy this."
This time, she went inside the deep to bring another oil. Did you understand that? She left the spot where she brought the previous one and went inside the deep chamber to bring another can of engine oil.
I collected it and opened it in her presence to check if it was faulty too, but it wasn't; the seal was intact. I smiled.
These people think we don't know what's happening. We know what they do!
Thank you for reading.