{"id":1151,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/count-your-pennies-businessman-buys-45k-bmw-with-coins\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T02:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:14:16","slug":"count-your-pennies-businessman-buys-45k-bmw-with-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/count-your-pennies-businessman-buys-45k-bmw-with-coins\/","title":{"rendered":"Count Your Pennies! Businessman Buys \u00a345K BMW With Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A man in China has insisted to pay the first installment of his new car in coinage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man in\u00a0China\u00a0has insisted to pay\u00a0the first installment of his new car in coinage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FrKqyqRkwkIRIyqhJWpfJhItlRg7?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171225175104.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"397\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs?type=marketing\">BMW customer<\/a> in China paid the first installment of his new car in five mao (5p) coins Photo:dailymail<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Workers at the car retailer in China spent hours counting boxes of coins which totaled nearly \u00a38,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unnamed customer bought a BMW, whose full price is about 400,000 yuan (\u00a345,000), on December 18, according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Gu, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/sales-manager\/\" title=\"View all posts in sales manager\" >sales manager<\/a> of BMW in Putian, Fujian Province, told\u00a0Pear Video\u00a0that the client was doing wholesale business and he insisted paying the first instalment in five mao (5p).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&#8216;They (the coins) were all five maos that the client had been saving over the years. There were worth about 70,000 yuan (\u00a37,954) in total,&#8217; said Mr Gu.<\/p>\n<p>A group of salesmen can be seen sitting in the shop <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spending<\/a> hours counting the copper coins on the floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s said that they had <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/travel\/\" title=\"View all posts in travel\">travel<\/a>ed to the client&#8217;s house and brought back over 10 boxes of coins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FrG6OO1wod4qRNrXd28BZ47V-j-p?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171225175106.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"354\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The sales manager says the client insists to pay by coins that he has been saving over the years Photo: pear video<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FsFFq1cLDwZMyW2uzVUPlItCQ_p7?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171225175109.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"407\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salesmen are spending hours to count the 5p coins and stacking them up into rolls Photo: pear video<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: dailymail<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fr4MF5a2_FQCuZqmK-74Hkjndjug?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"gic qr-code.jpg\" width=\"1433\" height=\"1434\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in China has insisted to pay the first installment of his new car in coinage. 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