A popular tactic to attract repeat business is to pre-sell credits on services with discounts to pay-per-use pricing. The practice spreads from haircut, massages, piano lessons to hobbies... In fact, eletrcity, gas, hotwater, bathroom water in our apartment are all prepaid (no discount).
Hidden in our drawers somewhere, we have prepaid credits for Grace's beauty massgae, Kristine's taekwando, piano, and Kristine and Kimberley's weekend Playschool.
After attending her first Taekwando last Sunday, Kristine missed her second lesson yesterday and will miss her third this coming Sunday while travelling the Silk Road with us. Could this be another of Grace's ideas that hits the Great side-Wall soon after initiation? Grace gets frequent 'why-are-you-not-coming-here-anymore' calls from her masseur (from whom she purchased manymanymany discount sessional tickets), and the manager of a weekend playschool (疯狂家族）to which US$350 was paid but used thrice. Most people would be worried of their pre-paid credits disappearing (if the businesses shut down) and thus wanting to use their credits up quickly. Grace is a different breed.
The usage stats:
Grace:
Playschool: Unlikely Grace will consummate her original desire here. My bet is the manager will eventually give up calling Grace.....
Taekwando: yet TBD
KK
Piano lessons and practice: successfully into second prepaid contracts.
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