Tour Scams - Beijing Tourist Traps

We went on a trip in May'08 and on the last day, our tourist guide brought us to this JJF jewerly shop in Beijing, China. Search for jiu jiu fu on this website and u will find how tourist are trapped. Different is that the owner Mr. Lin will tell you that he's from a neighbouring country and feels a strong connection to your kinsmen. Anyways, if you do get trapped in this, and felt suspicious and did a search to find this, do not fear. At least I hope that you can solve this, coz I did and managed to get my refund back minus the management fee of a few hundred bucks. better than losing a few thousand. What can I say, its the Chinese mind of hoping to get a good deal that makes us get conned.

Anyways, collect all your receipts. I strongly recommend that you file a formal complaint as soon as possible with your tour agent that you bought the trip from, coz we did it immediately the day after next of our arrival.

Write in a proper complaint letter attached with the pictures of the jewelry bought but don't say that they are fakes. Coz usually they give the real thing but very substandard and not worth the price that they represented it for. If you say that its fake, they will ask for prove.

JJF actually has a certificate saying that they allow return of the product even after purchase without any questions asked, sort of like their motto. We were lucky enough to ask for it, coz before we left we looked for a certificate that some of the jewerly had and asked for it, but was given a certificate about their motto instead. Don't deal directly with JJF yourself. We called JJF ourselves and they first asked why we were returning it. Instead of saying that it was a fake, we said that we were not happy that there wasn't enough of time to consider the purchase and wanted to return. Initially they said that they couldn and when we qouted their motto back to them, they retracted and mentioned that they would call us back the next day. Trust me, no calls will come back.

Instead, complain to your tour group abt say that u were hurried into the buy and want a full refund else you have to bring it up to the consumer group and travel authorities. My travel agent was responsible enough to actually chase for the return and to service our calls. Lucky for us. i hope that others might also get back their refund the same way if they get caught in this.

Tour Scams, Beijing

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Tour Scams, Beijing

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