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Former AKB48 member Yuki Kashiwagi, appearing on the October 7 broadcast of ‘Ueda to Onna ga Hoeru Yoru’ (‘Ueda and the Howling Women’), shared her experience of giving up on exterminating a cockroach in her home herself and instead rushing to hire a company that appeared near the top of her internet search — only to be billed ¥160,000 for the job. On the thread, budget-conscious users countered that products like Black Cap traps or Goki Jet spray would have cost just a few hundred yen, while others pointed out that ranking high in search results often just means a company paid for ad placement, not that it’s reputable. Some commenters also questioned whether the story was even true.
Former AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi Hit With a Shocking Bill for Cockroach Extermination — ‘This Is Wrong’: She Reveals How the Ordeal Ended
Yuki Kashiwagi (35), a talent and former AKB48 member, appeared on the Nippon TV variety show ‘Ueda to Onna ga Hoeru Yoru’ (airing at 9:00 PM) on October 7.
In line with the episode’s theme, ‘Crime Prevention This Fall! Women Who Never Want to Be Victimized Again,’ she revealed a shocking episode in which she was hit with an exorbitant bill from an exterminator after a cockroach appeared in her home.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Sexual Violet (No. 1)? (riffing on the old 1981 song title)
It's scary when you don't know where the corpse ends up
It's not like the exterminator searches for the corpse and disposes of it after spraying
She's not even getting a refund — her agency, Watanabe Production, sure is scary
If the company sees this, they'll realize it's Kashiwagi's house
First time I've ever seen that name. Stop making self-promo threads for some talent nobody's heard of
Get a quote first
Goki Jet's gone up in price lately too,
but it's still way cheaper than calling some junk exterminator
and I spent the whole night on edge. In the morning I searched again and found it sitting perfectly still in the same spot, so I finished it off…
Made me rethink just how surprisingly patient roaches ('G' is slang for gokiburi, i.e. cockroach) can be
Just a few drops and it stops dead in its tracks… probably suffocates
Makes you almost scared of how strong that cleaning power is
picking it up with tissue and a plastic bag, tying it shut tight, and tossing it,
then spraying some Mushi Ender (a bug repellent) afterward
But for a home, something like Barusan is plenty — it'll just come back in again anyway
Hiring a professional company is operating on a totally different wavelength from us
That sounds rough~
is actually a solid move
If they'd used Goki Jet spray instead,
cleanup afterward would've been a nightmare
Luckily I haven't seen one this year
Same with stuff like water leaks — if you just buy the part yourself and swap it, it only costs a few hundred to a few thousand yen
> rushed to hire a company from the sponsored slot at the top of her search results.
The hefty ad fees for that sponsored slot get recouped from the customer.
A sponsored slot is just something you buy with ad money —
being at the top doesn't mean the company is honest.
If anything, it's more likely to be a ripoff outfit
What kind of house is she even living in lol
something like ¥10,000 for the callout fee and ¥10,000 for labor wouldn't be unreasonable — someone's got to physically show up.
But ¥160,000? I don't get it. Pesticide at the hardware store only costs a few hundred yen
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
There’s no official price standard for pest control services — callout fees, late-night surcharges, and chemical costs vary from company to company, so even ‘one cockroach’ can run anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands of yen. The thread split over whether ¥160,000 counts as a ‘rip-off’ or a ‘legitimate price for a late-night callout,’ with many commenters instead zeroing in on the fact that she agreed on the spot without getting a quote first. There was also a widely echoed reminder that a company’s top placement in search results is simply something it pays for in ad fees — it has nothing to do with its actual reputation or whether it’s properly licensed, a useful thing to keep in mind when searching for services online. The fact that the show never specified a detailed cost breakdown also makes it harder to judge whether the story — or the price — is accurate.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[Entertainment] Former AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi Hit With a Shocking Bill… Pays ¥160,000 for Cockroach Extermination — ‘This Is Wrong’: She Reveals How the Ordeal Ended“.
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