Thebes Shopping

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Excursion buses arrive on parking which are surrounded numerous trading shops. Tourist cannot reach the sight which they want to see without passing numerous dealers. Sometimes it happens to be a difficult test. Dealers are very persevering. Sometimes their persistence becomes unpleasant.

If you have decided to buy something you should remember that there is nothing there which would cost more than $10! The most popular price is $1.

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There are a lot of souvenir shops around Deir el-Bahri. Local dealers offer many fine but useless things. Usually they start to bargain from the sum, which is in several times more than the final price. Then they considerably reduce the initial sum, leading it up to symbolical. If you really need the offered subject you can buy it for very few money. But do it only after the dealer has completely lost the interest to you. Otherwise you can overpay in several times.

I witnessed the tender for 4 figures of the Egyptian gods. The initial price was 60 dollars. Very quickly the price has fallen up to 60 Egyptian pounds (in 5 times less). The dealer stopped the offer of his goods on 20 pounds (4 dollars). That is the initial price exceeded the final price in 15 times!