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dandan · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 183 Location: Hong Kong

Yeah, I wouldn't too excited about seeing the Mid-levels escalator, son.

It's an escalator. It's quite long.

It's like a short escalator, only, you know.... longer.

Eunoia · Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 16

2 things:

dandan · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 183 Location: Hong Kong

once again · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 815

If you didn't buy it then you have no idea of what would have happened if you had gone through with the process. If they dropped the price 25 %without you even trying that looks like a classic bait and switch tactic. Think yourself lucky for not being truly ripped off.

Eunoia · Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 16

Good tips there. Sounds like one really needs to open the box and checks the contents before walking out the door, or better yet, before laying down the cash... Wonder how the shopkeepers would react...

dandan · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 183 Location: Hong Kong

If they're kosher they won't mind. In fact, many shops will actually ask you to check the contents before you leave to protect themselves from dodgy customers who'll try and rip them off by coming back and claiming that stuff was missing from the box. Particularly those notoriously troublesome gweilos, everyone knows how sneaky and tricky they can be. Razz

Ludwig · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

Everything all the above have said is all pretty much accurate; - there is certainly no shortage of scamsters in any large city (and no shortage of mugs passing through, either). I would have to say, however, that - in comparison in other international cities - HK enjoys relatively few such enterprises.

Another thing I would add, though, is that scamsters in HK are - if reported (which assumes their 'reportability', i.e., their location is known) - often dealt with quite rapidly and publicly. Obviously, few if any would have sympathy for someone who has been scammed when buying off the street (many are picked up at and led away from reputable and high quality outlets by people who claim to be employed by the outlet and to be able to offer identical products at discounted prices). I do not know if anyone else recalls seeing it on the local news around six (?) months ago, but an Australian (or British) couple felt they had been scammed by an outlet somewhere in the area between TST and TST East as regards the price they had paid for a camera (when compared to other outlets on their back to their hotel), contacted the police and the salesman was arrested and marched out of the shop in handcuffs on TV!