Last weekend we went to the South Bund Soft-Spinning Material Market. It is a pretty massive fabric market. There are four floors filled with booths. Some of them specialize in Chinese silk, others have suit material, fabrics for sofa upholstery, and anything else you want. There are tailors at each booth who will make the fabric into any garment you request. You have to bargain to get a good price and me and Danny are pretty awful at it. They tell you a much higher price than they intend to sell for and if they see you are a foreigner they tend to triple the amount. I bought some fabric to decorate my classroom with and I definitely got ripped off. It was still reasonably cheap though so I don't mind. I really should work on my bargaining skills though.
Yup, I have the same complaint, I suck really hard at haggling. My Chinese sucks and I don't like confrontation either. I feel especially badly because I'm haggling over $2 or, which is not a deal to me, but is a huge deal for them.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I need my mom to bargain for me. She's ruthless ;)
Yeah, everyone says you should go with a local if you don't want to be ripped off.
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