Had something similiar last Thurs. After being approached to buy anything and everything Except maybe the Brooklyn Bridge ( give them some time they'll figure a way to sell to Us also) a girl comes over and speaks in English of cause I answered in French (that I dont speak, asking if she spoke French) anyway she followed along saying its simply her day off.

I showed her a slip of paper with some areas written down and says Im heading in the wrong way and takes me back to Tianemen and then past Mao and with Mao to your back to right of it. It was an area filled with small stores of all kinds, loved the ones auctioning off Jade (right) just like the Electronic ones in Spitfields in London. I was heading or trying to , to the Hutong area near the Hyatt.

Anyway after walking around for awhile we walk into a store as she wants some tea to drink and passed the aisle of whatever to a flight of steps that goes Upstairs. Thats when I stopped her and said 'Im not going up" didnt know about the scams as I didnt read or have Lonely Planet. I just didnt like the idea of not being able to make a Stage Left ASAP if I needed to.

We walked around some more,about 2 hrs all in total now, then she wanted something to drink , OK so it cost me for a bottle of Orange whatever a few Yuan, worth it as I really liked walking around the Old part with all those Stalls. She kept telling me she was hungry, I simply answered I had just finished eating before we met, how about Tea I pulled out my 2 water bottles I had and said , by day its Only water.

Im usually skeptical in nature, like buying those Gucci Bags that are the real thing, I answered yea and Im a woman only dressed like a man guess how much this beard I have cost me to have transplanted, it got a laugh out of them.

the only thing I did buy was 2 Dragon Baseball Caps for 20Y for both. Some wanted 120 for 1 telling me its hand stiched and costs them 100Y. So I stopped back at some of the places and offered to sell them the 2 I had for 90 each as it will cost them less then what they paid and after all it was hand stiched. They passed, I said I can sell both for 170Y but I would be lossing 10Y they laughed , some said they were happy that most people werent as smart as I was, otherwise they would be out of business.