this is the ya xiù clothing market. it's one of those typical clothing markets where you find little stands where they try selling you knock-off clothes.
but there is more.
there's a nice, quite big, tailor shop on the third floor where you can get a suit tailored in about one week, there's stands with kitsch for tourists, there's a bit of everything... but mostly the little clothes stands.....
anyways, let's get back to the story:
i was just going down the escalators (yes, they have escalators to keep the constant flow of tourists , chinese and foreigners, mostly chinese though, going) because i had just left the tailor's shop where i had my suit fitted, when i saw a nice and very simple plain black sweater, perfect for cold days.
so... they have these girls working in those stands and there are two things about them i'd like to point out here:
but there is more.
there's a nice, quite big, tailor shop on the third floor where you can get a suit tailored in about one week, there's stands with kitsch for tourists, there's a bit of everything... but mostly the little clothes stands.....
anyways, let's get back to the story:
i was just going down the escalators (yes, they have escalators to keep the constant flow of tourists , chinese and foreigners, mostly chinese though, going) because i had just left the tailor's shop where i had my suit fitted, when i saw a nice and very simple plain black sweater, perfect for cold days.
so... they have these girls working in those stands and there are two things about them i'd like to point out here:
1) they speak english (!)
2) they have an amazing built-in radar that detects when somebody looks at their stand, even if it is just with the corner of your eye
this girl sees that i peeked at the sweater and she immediately tries to sell it to me. after i had convinced her that i needed a smaller size (somehow they are always eager to get rid of their XL and XXL sizes) she got all nervous and said: wait! how much you want to give me for it?
my reply was: "like always. 60." (60RMB is 6 euros... pretty convenient, huh?)
she started laughing and asked if i didn't mean 600 to which i answered that i didn't mean 600 of course
after 15 minutes of friendly discussion, she finally admitted that with 60 she'd still make a profit but not as much as she'd like to, so i agreed to pay 80 for it.
While leaving i noticed how much she insisted that i should come back and buy all my sweaters at her stand.... that is when it hit me that i STILL overpaid :-p
2) they have an amazing built-in radar that detects when somebody looks at their stand, even if it is just with the corner of your eye
this girl sees that i peeked at the sweater and she immediately tries to sell it to me. after i had convinced her that i needed a smaller size (somehow they are always eager to get rid of their XL and XXL sizes) she got all nervous and said: wait! how much you want to give me for it?
my reply was: "like always. 60." (60RMB is 6 euros... pretty convenient, huh?)
she started laughing and asked if i didn't mean 600 to which i answered that i didn't mean 600 of course
after 15 minutes of friendly discussion, she finally admitted that with 60 she'd still make a profit but not as much as she'd like to, so i agreed to pay 80 for it.
While leaving i noticed how much she insisted that i should come back and buy all my sweaters at her stand.... that is when it hit me that i STILL overpaid :-p
4 comments:
you are making friends already!:)
I think she insisted that you should come back for another reason... ;)
wow, u're getting good at this... -honey, we trained him well!!
nav
hey that's the same thing you said when the dog learned to poo outside the house!
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