When you get quoted crazily high prices for crazily cheap made in China items. Especially if you don't look Chinese.

lizworm wrote:When you get quoted crazily high prices for crazily cheap made in China items. Especially if you don't look Chinese.

Yep!

However like all business the prices charged are what people willing to pay for it. (Re: Apple) In China there are two things affecting the price.

1. Chinese seem to know little about how competition is supposed to work. When they see someone else charging more for something they also sell the reaction is "Great! I charge more too"!
Its anti-competition in action!

2. There are more than enough foreigners, just off the plane, who either don't know they are supposed to haggle or feel sorry for the poor family who are just wanting to put some rice and veggies on the table or are just dumb, or the company pays for everything! Now go back to No 1

Example 1

The fake market is flogging a pair of cheaply made jeans for $35 when you can by better quality jeans in the US for $14! (I have $12 Faded Glory jeans that are three years old and are fading nicely and not all worn out)

you see a child urinating on a washing machine in E-mart. His mother rushes over, not to scold him mind you, but to turn him away from the washing machine and into the isle...it is not safe to pee on electronics!!

Really? You have a problem with knowing if you're in China or not?

Chavster wrote:Really? You have a problem with knowing if you're in China or not?

Really? You have a problem with knowing what this thread is about or what?

sophiejane wrote:you see a child urinating on a washing machine in E-mart. His mother rushes over, not to scold him mind you, but to turn him away from the washing machine and into the isle...it is not safe to pee on electronics!!

I have never seen anything such as this in China!

...the office ayi starts mopping all the floors half an hour after everyone arrives for work.

Every day.

And it doesn't occur to anybody else that this is dumb.