A man from Assam has made headlines after buying a bike for himself. Suranjan Roy, a resident of Karimganj's Ramkrishna Nagar and a small business owner, went to a showroom in the district and bought a bike for which he made a down payment of Rs 50,000 in coins he had saved over the past few years, reported news agency ANI.
Roy went to a TVS showroom near his neighbourhood and expressed his desire to buy a bike after which the sales executives at the showroom showed him an Apache 160 4V and explained its feature to him. Roy decided to buy his dream bike but made an offer of making the payment in coins to which the entire staff was a bit shocked.
"After seeing the bike, the man told us that he had ₹50,000 of coins and he wants to buy [the two-wheeler] in finance by depositing the amount as a downpayment," said Barnali Paul, an employee of the company, reported ANI.
She also said that initially all the showroom staff were shocked on hearing the offer but agreed after discussing it with the owner and delivered the bike to the man.
This is not the first incident of its kind. A man from Uttarakhand's Rudrapur had payed Rs 50,000 to buy a TVS Jupiter scooty from a local TVS dealer last month.
The standard variant of the scooty with sheet metal wheels and drum brakes costs close to Rs 85,000 on road in Rudrapur. Details of how the man made the rest of his payment was not known.
Earlier in March 2022, 29-year-old V Boopathi from Tamil Nadu also paid Rs 2.6 lakh in Rs 1 coins for a Bajaj Dominar 400. About 10 hours were needed to count the payment made in coins by the man.