It seems to me from my last few trips that the BM is pretty much a lost cause. I like to go there to window shop, maybe try a little bargain shopping (often unsuccessfully) and mainly hang out with friends and shoot the shit. Sure there are a lot of CRT'ers around there. But there are far more who aren't. How many times have you gone up to a group timidly asking "CRT
?" only to get blank stares. Superficial knowledge of CR has spread too far without the corequisite knowledge of "No cien para solamente una hora". We could talk it up around here preaching to the choir until we are blue in the face, but there will always be hoardes of newbies will never read these words heading to CR and the DR/BM paying what ever asking price is thrown at them because "its less than what it costs back home".
The good news is that those same newbies who ignorantly pay the asking price at the BM and have screwed up the market there, for the most part have also never heard of many of the other places in SJ, let alone dare to set foot outside the DR. Sure the word on ZB or NF may slip out. But, hopefully those guys can only do limited damage there since their prices are fixed. Unless, of course, they over tip "because its less than what it costs at the BM" (anyone here like that?
).
Probably the best thing that we can hope for is just to be very careful about sharing knowledge about places like Oasis, Kamur, D'Pelufos, Arcada etc. with such newbies. Personally, I've stopped posting about any of my favoritas on this board or any board, though I'd be more than happy to share such info with guys I meet in CR once I know they are "with the program"
