Shanghai Shopping

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What to buy: Chinese ink paintings with fingers and palm:
The finger and palm painting is painted by the artist who skillfuly uses his finger and palm with ink and water mixture to produce this painting.
The artist does not use a brush only his palm and finger.They told me that,it is the first time to Chinese landscape painting produced in this manner.And I got one..

What to pay: I just paid 40$

Fangbang Road is a pedestrianised shopping street running east-west through the Old City (Nanshi) just south of Yu Bazaar and Gardens. Billed as an "Old Shanghai" shopping street, it is lined with stalls and shops selling knick-knacks, clothes, shoes and many everyday items. It seems more popular with locals than with tourists, and bargaining is of course required.

What to buy: Clothes, shoes, knick-knacks, that sort of things.

What to pay: Varies - should not be too much.

Loads of shops selling fake but quality clothing

What to buy: Any type of cllothing and watches and sunglasses etc

What to pay: I found that the best way to buy items rather than go through the art of bidding is to see the item you require and say directly to the seller i will give you ex amount of rmb (the value you have decided) Example I saw a cardigan and stated I will give you 75 RMB for this cardigan previous visits in the same shop bidding ended at twice the price with no sale reached. The seller agreed without any further bidding this worked time and time again at similar plces

Yu Bazaar is full of little shops, mostly geared for tourists who descend en mass to the area to visit the nearby Yu Gardens and Huxinting Teahouse. The shops here mostly sell local products, including handicrafts, tea and clothes. Prices are not low since most shoppers are tourists. There are some long-established reputable shops here, however, particularly the jewelry shops.

What to buy: Silk items, tea, teacups, chopsticks, fans, any local product really...

What to pay: Varies - must bargain.

This is a 3 stores building fully field with small stalls in which they sell fabrics, silks, wool and even furs. hundreds of diferents stalls and almost in everyone of them they havea good taylor, in normally two days youll have a suit perfectly custom made for about 100 US dependin on the fabrics you use. remember that in china bargaining is a must.

Old Street, next to the Yuyuan Bazaar has lots of souvenir stalls. There is some good presents, but you must bargain hard. The Chinese won't rob you directly, but they will rip you off if they can. They enjoy the game of bargaining though. It's fun for them.

Bargaining here is much different that elsewhere as you have to bargain harder. Your goal is to get the price down about 75%. So I start with 10%. This is where the guides can be wrong. The say to originally offer 50%, whereas I offer 10%. That's because the salespeople offer the locals a much lower starting price.

Carry a small calculator as you can punch in numbers if they do not speak English. (However, they actually speak the best English here.) If you want fake watches or purses, they are not on the main street. People will come up to you and solicit you, but you must follow into some back room down an ally.

This is how it goes:
-Always pretend you are not reallly interested in any particular item. Pretend that you don't care.
-If they say 100 yuan, I would counter with 10.
- Then they would pretend to be shocked.
-Then they would say for me they give me a special discount, and they would punch in 85.
-Then I would say I'm not interested in the item.
-They say well, 10 is too little, and they lose money. So I need to offer more.
-So I offer 20. They counter with 50.
-I say nah and put the item down.
-They say wait, what is you final price?
-Then I say 25. They counter with 40.
-I say "no, I said final price is 25."
-They said they 25 is too low. I said well, okay and start to walk out.
-I get about 2 feet out of the stall and they say, okay 25.

Don't worry. Many shops sell the same thing. So if you cannot get it at one place then you can go two stalls down.

What to buy: Chopstick Sets. For a pair, you should pay 15 yuan
Silk Scarves: 20 yuan
Fans: 25 yuan
Fake perpetual motion watches: 150 yuan
Fake fine quality leather handbags: 250 yuan. About 100-150 for non-leather.

What to pay: You can get a lot of suveniors for $200.

Can anyone tell me the street/s where the shops are that have designer " production over-runs " and copies etc.
Also where the markets are that sell the better quality copy watches etc.
Also, where can we find baby things ~ toys / clothes etc for our offspring.

Tired of Chinese and want some western goods. The place to go the Lotus Centre. This is a huge supermarket in the basement level where you can buy a variety of supermarket goods including fruit, wine, beer, etc etc.

What to buy: Wine - Aussie wine!!

What to pay: Upwards US $15