I am pretty sure that my wife, my best friend and I are well known on the part of the beach that we stay at near the NBCC. We generally don't have much issues and the beach there is set far enough back that you can avoid most of the wandering type sellers. The ones we deal with we deal with all the time. We have our bread guy, we have our juice guy, we have our fruit lady and so on. What I find is that if we want to go down the beach that's when we start getting harassed a bit more. We stayed one year at The Palms and I had a bad experience with a guy. He was pissed off that I was smoking cigars, that I had brought from Canada, and declined to buy smokes or his dried out stogies. He got pretty heated and was going off on me. He didn't think I knew what he said as he figured me for just another tourist. But I understand patois fairly well. I finally had to get up out of my chair and tell him to beat it. We had friends sitting with us and they were getting uncomfortable with his aggressive attitude. For the rest of the week he would come to the edge of the property and say stuff but never directly at me as he would look off down the beach or out into the water. He thought he was so clever lol. I would just ignore him but its a prime example of someone who clearly doesn't understand how to deal with people. We are generous but we are creatures of habit and deal with who we deal with. I own enough Jamaica stuff to start my own store where I live and I refuse to smoke crappy cigars. I love Negril and Jamaica so I won't ever stop going there.
