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In a post in the Facebook group Complaint Singapore on May 1, user Brad Lee shared a photo of the stall and accused the vendor of using “unethical sales tactics,” local outlet Independent Singapore reported.

Lee said he and his mother visited a durian stall at Block 113 Aljunied, where he asked the seller if he could open a durian to inspect it before purchasing. The seller allegedly agreed.

“First durian I opened was okay, ripe and soft. I told him I wanted two more,” Lee wrote.

Lee said he picked a different, smaller durian to open but the seller insisted on opening a larger one that he picked. “I was sceptical, but he reassured me it had more flesh,” Lee said.

He said the durian turned out to have hard flesh and large seeds so he refused to pay for it.

The seller then raised his voice and pressured Lee into buying the fruit, saying in Chinese: “I open already, you don’t want? You think what?”

Lee also said the seller had earlier promised to give them the durian for free if the flesh turned out hard.

But when Lee’s mother asked the seller to taste the fruit, the latter refused, saying he does not eat customers’ food.

“My mother felt that he was being very unreasonable and kept raising his voice at us. She decided to pay $100 and leave as she did not want the situation to escalate,” Lee wrote.

Some internet users also claimed to have had similar experiences with the same stall, with one person saying the seller was “famous” for using such tactics, according to AsiaOne.

“This shop will always try to force you into buying a durian. If you only want to look, he will start to show the durian and open it then when [the fruit is] opened ask you to buy,” one comment read.