Cheap China is no more
Yesterday I tried to buy some new clothes and shoes in Shanghai.
Well, cheap China is no more. Crowds of foreigners spoiled this country, once so inexpensive.
In the old times, sellers would run after you, offering lower and lower prices and begging you to buy. But thousands of foreign tourists started visiting China, and they are ready to pay any price for a piece of clothes, sometimes even as much as US$20.
Now when I'm saying the real price to the sellers, the price I want, they just say "no" and turn away. Turn away! They are not even interested in selling anything to me, since they perfectly know that in 3 minutes, some stupid foreigner might buy the same thing for twice as much. So why would they bother.
Alas, I really needed some new shoes and shirts, so I had to give up to these jerks - 60 yuan (~US$8) for each shirt and 60 yuan for the shoes. This is an absolutely impossible price, and still, I had to haggle for it for ages.
I haven't even asked how much was for all those iPods, maybe it was even more than US$30.
Next time I'll have to go to another city for shopping, not to pay to all those brazen Shanghai fatcats.
Bastards.