Originally Posted by
31570324
If I see the prices here, I can say that all of you pay a lot to much
Chess set for 800RMB? Serious? WOW, the seller could stay at home for a week after selling it to you ^
YOU HAVE TO BARGAIN IN CHINA. And not about 10%, you have to bargain about 90% of the first price.
I knew this was coming.
Trust me, the sellers were able to stay home a month or two with what they got from others. (And the 800 Yuan was a bit less than half of the "fixed" factory price it was listed for).
It would be helpful to bring in someone who knew how to get the best prices and could demonstrate, or simply have a cheat sheet of target prices. Perhaps that's something someone here could point to? And would an appropriate tactic in a store with marked prices be to ask if it's tagged incorrectly because that seems like way too high a price?
And do I dare mention I paid $58 for a fake iPhone??? Just had to have it when I saw the "Designed in Cupertino, Made in the USA" on the back. All iPhones are made in China. Except this one.
Originally Posted by
31570324
Start with a unrealistic low price, so maybe 30RMB for the chest set. It can happen that they say "go away" and thats it. But most time they will start barging. You need time for this, could take about 10 minutes to get it for a realistic price.
The sellers have a fixed salary, so they can sell it to you for 100RMB if they like you, or they could sell it for 800RMB if they dont like you. They will get the same salary. So be friendly to them.
Because there are people like you, they have a easy game and foreigners will always get a to high price
And dont look at the brand. Everything you got in this factorys are copies, so he price will come from the quality, not from the brand.
I recognized too late that my style of "bargaining" doesn't work well in China. I picked up a pair of dress shirts for 70 yuan each (original asking price was 400). I felt that was a reasonable price and stuck to it. They wanted to play... pick a low price, they counter, pick slightly higher, counter again, etc. That simply didn't make sense to them. It was pretty funny; I was on my way out after a couple minutes of "negotiation" when they settled at "my" price (which, as we know, was still a lot higher than what I likely could have gotten it for).
Next time I'll have more fun, and so will they. My apologies for whatever cultural damage I may have caused.
Originally Posted by
anacapamalibu
All iPhones are made in China. Except this one
None are made in China....assembled in China.
US customs requires COO on foreign made products.
So maybe they are made in USA and designed in Cupertino California.
Did you get an iPhone 5? Saw them for sale on Taobao.
Darn right it was an iPhone5! Nothing but the best for this guy.