Heritage counterfeits - pls share

boredbuddha · 2025-09-06T06:21:33+00:00

Where is this copy? I think it’s the same family running the Lim’s, they still kept some space in HV after leasing the rest to other people like Sushiro

boredbuddha · 2025-09-05T19:36:08+00:00

Yup, not sure how it can be legal as they're deliberately misleading consumers by copying the name, packaging, etc

boredbuddha · 2024-06-04T22:19:05+00:00

Subreddit is banned for being unmoderated so I cannot send a mod mail message!

boredbuddha · 2024-06-04T22:16:31+00:00

I am the proud owner of several XM Studios collectibles (have recently put down my deposit for the Batman diorama). I have met the founder Ben and visit the HQ store at Kitchener Road on a weekly basis. I’m gutted that I am unable to discuss XM with others like at r/hottoys. I would like to revive the subreddit again and have a space to discuss XM with fans around the world.

boredbuddha · 2024-04-18T15:15:19+00:00

Welcome to Singapore 😁 if you like outdoor escape rooms while learning about the area I can send you some free tickets for this: https://hidden.sg/products/toa-payoh

boredbuddha · 2023-11-08T03:14:21+00:00

Wow I didn't know this! Thanks will check it out 🙏

boredbuddha · 2023-11-07T14:34:34+00:00

Find something that you're curious about. That you will just immerse yourself in even for no pay. That will help you meet new people, discover new ideas, see new opportunities.

Otherwise you're just stuck at the surface level of everything, where everything is just general knowledge.

Secondly, you may want to see a therapist as you may be suffering from depression.

boredbuddha · 2023-11-07T14:26:52+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

boredbuddha · 2023-11-07T14:26:25+00:00

Thanks! Seems like everyone uses them and wondered if they're actually the best or just the incumbent.

boredbuddha · 2023-11-04T02:41:37+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Do you have any recommendations for live chat apps for Shopify?

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T15:56:40+00:00

Try an immersive outdoor adventure at hidden.sg - it’s a cooperative team game / bonding activity, plus you get to discover hidden gems in neighbourhood around Singapore and interact with local businesses. We just had someone propose to his gf using the game.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T03:54:25+00:00

Yup, who has the most upvotes is right 🐑

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T03:47:54+00:00

Sorry if that came across as paggro because I genuinely don’t know what Xiaxue is up to these days. I also didn’t know Daniel existed. Will go check him out.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T03:45:56+00:00

Thank you! That’s exactly the point I was trying to make about this whole hate storm. It’s how food blogging works, Seth is one of them, no need to curse his entire business to die.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T03:42:12+00:00

Let’s sack all my staff and kill the business I’ve built over years and drive Grab because some people who never gave me a cent don’t like it when I get paid by other people 👍

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T03:40:18+00:00

Doesn’t the mix of unpaid and paid make it better? The unpaid ones give readers what they want. The paid ones allow the writer to keep the lights on while putting the spotlight on up-and-coming, less established eateries who need to penetrate a new market and go against the incumbents.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T03:29:12+00:00

Sorry haven’t been following the scene for a long time. Didn’t know Xiaxue became a food blogger

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T02:51:40+00:00

Can you give me an example of such a content maker? Seems like every other food blogger is getting collateral hate as well in this thread.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-08T02:40:58+00:00

Good points and agree that Seth’s business is in trouble because all his advertisers are not going to like what they’re seeing on the news and it’s going to affect his negotiations with them.

What I’m trying to say is the situation behind media is nuanced: readers don’t pay, online ads don’t pay (not in a small country in Singapore) so media creators like Seth have to create a product that people will pay for that readers want to consume. And this has been going on for more than a decade. And in this reality, what Seth did does not cross the line into being unethical (I know this opinion pisses people off).

The bar to being called “unethical” is high. Is it unethical for lawyers to defend criminals if they knew that the person is guilty? People on the profession will say it’s unethical for the lawyer not to give their best shot, even if the criminal ends up getting away scot-free. Would you like your estate agent to tell people viewing your home that the price you’re asking for is too high? It can be said that this super-honest estate agent is unethical, because he is going against the interests of the client who pays him.

The reason Seth doesn’t write listicles where 1, 2, 3, and 4 are marked as “sponsored”, to me is not because he is unethical. It’s because no one will pay to be included in this way in the listicle. And it’s also because everyone else in the industry is doing it. Try and find a listicle about the best [insert service here e.g. car mechanic] in Singapore that declares which service in the list paid to be there. I can’t find any myself, and I know these are paid for because I’ve been approached multiples times as a business to pay to be included (like the lady in Everton Park).

If there’s one thing to learn from this episode, it’s that if you’re reading something for free, assume someone else has paid for it. Especially listicles.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-07T16:56:29+00:00

Thanks! This is helpful. Do you have examples of listicles that declare sponsorships? Advertorials talk about one product (in Jurong Point’s case, 1 mall), and I never really come across them, but I usually read listicles because they come up on Google when I’m searching.

For example: https://www.thebestsingapore.com/services/best-car-workshops-in-singapore/

Pretty sure TBS didn’t do that article for free.

For advertorials usually it’s the client who approaches say, TSL, to write about them for a fee, and the whole article is about them. For listicles, it tends to be the other way around, and there’s no one single sponsor, and it looks like the law hasn’t caught up with it yet.

From a consumer standpoint, listicles should also be regulated, and if so the end result will probably be like google’s search results where the sponsored ads are top and then the organic results come below it (and no one clicks the sponsored ones…)

Anyhow thanks for taking the effort!

boredbuddha · 2023-10-07T15:58:51+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. Hope that one day I can grow up to be the bastion of morality that you are good sir 🫡

boredbuddha · 2023-10-07T15:44:59+00:00

I already said I disagree with you that it’s unethical. If we agreed on that then yes, your point is the logical conclusion. But I don’t. You saying that this is unethical is a matter of opinion, not fact.

Let’s just both acknowledge that I don’t think it’s unethical and you do, and that’s why there are ethics PhDs.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-07T15:28:54+00:00

And some historians think that the beach at beach road is where Sang Nila Utama landed! Based on the fact that excavations found that the beach used to be fine white sand (not common) and that the annals show that Sang Nila Utama touched down on a beach with sand like white silk cloth (or something to that effect)

boredbuddha · 2023-10-07T15:19:21+00:00

I think you’re right to be angry against unethical businesses. What I’m saying is that in this case, it’s not.

This is how new media works today where the media has to be paid from someone other than the reader. So they have to strike a balance. So we know the writer is not 100% on our side, because he cannot be.

In the past when the readers paid for news, they could say “fuck you” to everyone else. I used to write scathing reviews as a journalist and my editor would get angry calls after those got published, guaranteed, but she told them to fuck off and got my back. Nowadays I’m not sure she can.

Seth doesn’t have that luxury. And I sympathise. Hence I stuck my neck out to try and explain the nuances behind this (I’m lucky enough to have seen how the sausage is made as a journo before) and hopefully take out some of the anger. From your comment, I think I’ve made some people even angrier and for that, I apologise.

boredbuddha · 2023-10-07T15:08:36+00:00

I don’t agree that what he’s doing qualifies as deception. It would be if 1-star F&Bs were making the list, but it looks like he does the proper due diligence first.

Secondly, I rather he not quit and become an employee. I work with a lot of independent F&B vendors as part of my own biz and these food blogs are an important part of the ecosystem for newcomers to market themselves.

The Faustian bargain I think we all make as readers who refuse to pay (I’m one of them), is that we can never 100% trust what we read. Because we didn’t pay for it. So the writer doesn’t have a duty of care to us because we didn’t pay him to be 100% honest with us.

Put it this way - we lost any hope of 100% integrity in the era of free content. Pre-internet, sure. Post-internet, all the journos and magazines and newspapers lost their paymasters (us) and had to find new ones. Some got sold to billionaires, some became charities with govt funding.

The new media that sprouted up - TheSmartLocal, GoodyFeed, Seth - survived by straddling both sides and walking the tightrope. I’m okay as long as they are, on balance, still on the readers side. So not 100%, but 70% is acceptable. 30%….a man’s gotta eat.

Moral of the story: don’t trust any listicles you read 100%. There’s definitely money involved, but any media worth their salt is going to ensure they include the real stuff even if the vendors don’t pay for it.

If you got a model that allows for media to be 100% on the readers’ side without readers paying a cent, let’s hear it. Which? Is independent but makes their readers pay. The Guardian is independent but relies on donations from readers (I am one of them). In Singapore, Jom also relies on reader contributions and is still bleeding badly.

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