Category: Shopping

Taobao is one of China’s largest online shopping platforms, comparable to Ebay or Amazon. It is a place where small businesses and individuals can sell products to consumers – anything from clothes to medicines. But, you can also find some rather strange things for sale on Taobao …check some of the weird and wonderful stuff we’ve found:  Collar allowing…

Bargaining is acceptable in most Chinese stores, except in the supermarket or some shopping malls in which the goods have clear fixed prices and the staff are not allowed to grant discretionary markdowns.  When facing tourists, sellers will almost always raise the price of the products, normally doubling it, or sometimes making it 5 or…