Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I'm Ghana Git You Sucka
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.03.2010
Mallory is still dragging her rack of sunglasses around, and some guy asks her how much she wants for them. She says three cedis, but he means how many sunglasses, because he tells her wants to buy out her whole stock. Which is actually just his way of fucking with her by making her waste time counting all two hundred pairs. She interviews afterwards that the message she got from the locals was, "We do this every day and you are not doing it right." I'm impressed that she stopped hollering enough to receive any kind of message at all. He does buy one pair of aviators from her, though, so combined with the ones she apparently already sold off-camera, she's already up to 15¢.
From the viewing area, Nat and Thomas are watching their respective partners out there, and Thomas yells at Jill, "What are you doing?" She's noticed that she almost sold someone a pair with a scratch, so she starts helping that customer find a better pair to buy. "Money's tight, so you just don't want to sell them a pair of bad sunglasses," she interviews. Sitting next to her, Thomas asks why she cares. "I hope you're not worried about people's feelings on this race," he says. "We gotta win." Yeah, there's a difference between not worrying about screwing over your fellow contestants, who if nothing else had the resources to make an audition video and outfit themselves to backpack around the world, and selling someone in Africa a crap pair of sunglasses for .3% of their country's per capita GDP. Does he not get that? Whatever the case, she made her last sale, so she's done.
That leaves only Kat, and Nick, who is down to his last pair. One woman asks Nick to let her try a pair on, and when she does, someone turns on a boom box and she starts dancing. Nick doesn't know how to react, until she decides to pretend like she's walking off with them. And then he knows even less how to act. "I think I just got jacked for some sunglasses," Nick tells us. Does that mean he has to sell an extra pair to make up for the ones he got stolen from him? Or sell the next pair for 6¢? Luckily, she only seems to be messing with him, taunting him from around a truck like he's trying to get her to chase her down for them. Eventually she comes back and offers him two cedis. When he says he can't, she says, "Let me search you." What? Finally she buys them at the asking price, but she certainly made him work for it. And Kat's stuck trying to get more than one cedi from an inflexible buyer. "I'm not a very good salesperson or no one wants sunglasses," she says. How much would it suck for her if it suddenly got cloudy?