Comments on: Bargaining in China to Avoid the Foreign Discount http://www.teachabroadchina.com/bargain-in-china-ex-pat-money/ Home of the Teach Abroad China Alliance Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:42:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Logi http://www.teachabroadchina.com/bargain-in-china-ex-pat-money/#comment-4278 Logi Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:21:19 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/?p=272#comment-4278 Well it was fun at first to haggle and do all that waving and walking away and all that stuff. The incredible understanding of body language between me and the seller was almost beautiful. But after the knife thing I kinda lost the mood and just wanted to get away from the place. It was quite funny though cause the guy with the knife was like 152 cm and like 35 kg and I'm 182 and 100 kg. So first when he came at me before he pulled the knife I thought to myself what does he think he can do? But then he pulled the knife and my question got answered. Took me some time since I am terrible with names but the city I was in is called Gongqing, it's a small city near Lake Poyang, then I went to Nanchang and from there to Shanghai. It was a true adventure traveling by bus, train and feet :) The market was the "fakemarket" in Shangai. Well it was fun at first to haggle and do all that waving and walking away and all that stuff. The incredible understanding of body language between me and the seller was almost beautiful. But after the knife thing I kinda lost the mood and just wanted to get away from the place. It was quite funny though cause the guy with the knife was like 152 cm and like 35 kg and I’m 182 and 100 kg. So first when he came at me before he pulled the knife I thought to myself what does he think he can do? But then he pulled the knife and my question got answered.
Took me some time since I am terrible with names but the city I was in is called Gongqing, it’s a small city near Lake Poyang, then I went to Nanchang and from there to Shanghai. It was a true adventure traveling by bus, train and feet :)
The market was the “fakemarket” in Shangai.

]]> By: Robert Vance http://www.teachabroadchina.com/bargain-in-china-ex-pat-money/#comment-4261 Robert Vance Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:02:20 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/?p=272#comment-4261 @Logi, Thanks for the comments. Interesting story. Usually the sellers seem to be amused when I bargain with them. You must have encountered a bad apple. I am guessing you were in Chongqing...in the Western part of China? I am guessing you did not end up buying that watch...:) @Logi,

Thanks for the comments. Interesting story. Usually the sellers seem to be amused when I bargain with them. You must have encountered a bad apple. I am guessing you were in Chongqing…in the Western part of China? I am guessing you did not end up buying that watch…:)

]]> By: Logi http://www.teachabroadchina.com/bargain-in-china-ex-pat-money/#comment-4259 Logi Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:49:47 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/?p=272#comment-4259 Nice article. I have to share one experience I had. I was visiting a friend in Quching (not sure it's spelled that way) and we went to Shanghai were he took me to a market. Other people and my friend had told me that paying 1/3 of the original price was the highest price I should settle for so I did some nice haggling at that market. But while haggling for a fake Rolex this one guy got really irritated and pulled a knife on me. The police arrested him like 2 seconds after he pulled the knife but I did not bother staying at that market any longer. Have to say though I felt really safe in China. Allot of police and even more people dressed like they were military/police :) Nice article. I have to share one experience I had. I was visiting a friend in Quching (not sure it’s spelled that way) and we went to Shanghai were he took me to a market. Other people and my friend had told me that paying 1/3 of the original price was the highest price I should settle for so I did some nice haggling at that market. But while haggling for a fake Rolex this one guy got really irritated and pulled a knife on me. The police arrested him like 2 seconds after he pulled the knife but I did not bother staying at that market any longer. Have to say though I felt really safe in China. Allot of police and even more people dressed like they were military/police :)

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