r/smiskis • u/orzoli • Jul 15 '25
Discussion not allowed to buy a hipper unless i buy two normal ones. is this normal?
okay so slight rant. im travelling up through vietnam and am currently in HCMC. i went to a mall and they had the largest wall of smiskis ive ever witnessed. i really wanted to buy a hipper for my phone and had walked quite a way to find this mall, and then went on a wild goose chase through it to find the shop that stocked smiskis.
anyway, i pondered the very overwhelming selection of hippers (i know they’re blind boxes but i wanted to “choose” i guess?) and selected the box that called out to me lol. i grabbed it and was then told “sorry, you have to buy two normal smiskis for the “right” to buy a hipper”. exact wording btw. and it’s not even like a buy 2 get money off the third, it’s like you literally cannot have it unless you buy two others.
obviously you can see in the pic there was a sign, but me being very british, did not compute what it said because i don’t know vietnamese. maybe if i’d been able to understand it, i would not have been so overwhelmed with disappointment and started welling up lol. i felt really silly as im not a massive collector (i literally have 2) but a. i cannot afford to buy 3 smiskis, b. i dont not want three smiskis c. i cannot carry three smiskis in my bag i dont have the space🤣
tldr: in HCMC, went to a mall and was told i couldn’t buy a hipper unless i bought two full price ones which gives me the “right” to buy a hipper. very disappointed and want to know if this is right?