Shopping 3-8-08

We went shopping on Sat 3/8/08, which is women's international day, so a lot of department stores were on sale. It was a totally crazy shopping experience. The most number of people I have ever seen at a department store. The prices weren't even that cheap!! I was looking at a shoe and somebody literally took it out of my hands. We decided to ditch the department store and go to a cheap bargaining area. Nothing in China is set on stone, price-wise, going from opera tickets, to clothes, to fruit at the grocery store. I have become a master of negotiation and I got down a purse from 120 rmb (Chinese currency) to 20 rmb! Basically you can get fake stuff for super cheap in China, but authentic stuff is actually more expensive than in the US.

Fuimos de compras el dia 8 de marzo, que es el dia internacional de las mujeres (nunca habia oido hablar de eso hasta que llegamos aqui). Se supone que tenian muchas rebajas ese dia, y las tiendas estabn a tope, vamos que nunca habi visto yo semejante bulla en una tienda. Y la cosa es que las cosas ni estaban tan baratas! Total que nos fuimos a los puestecillos donde tienen las cosas mas baratas y donde se puede regatear. En China, ningun precio es fijo, todo se puede regatear, incluyendo entradas para la opera, ropa, o fruta en el supermercado. Vamos, que estoy hecha una regateadora profesional, una vez consegui bajar el precio de 120 a 20 yuenes! (la moneda china). Aqui en China las cosas que son copias estan super baratas, pero las cosas autenticas estan aun mas caras que en los EEUU.