Originally Posted by cpx
Some of the people I've spoken to.. were very nice and gave me a lot
of useful information about Beijing. I never had any issue with them, but there
are some other threads with the scams.
I gather you're referring to the "tea ceremony" thread. I had never heard about that scam until reading that thread, but during course of the past few months, have run into 3 different people that had all been had. And, just like the OP of that thread, all were picked up in the Tiananmen Wangfujing vacinity, taken for tea, and none felt like they had actually been scammed.
I meant to post back because I was amazed at how close their details conformed with those presented in the other thread, but never got around to it. Be careful, guys!