Hey, Robert, that's a nice shirt you are wearing. Where did you get it?
Thanks, I like it too. I bought it at the nearby department store.
That's nice. Do you know you can get one at the wholesale market near the zoo for a much lower price?
Yeah, I know that. But at those places. the prices they ask you are ridiculously high, and if you don't bargain hard, you will get ripped-off.
True, learning how to haggle the price is one of the things people have to pick up when they come to China for the first time.
Yeah, but personally I hate bargaining. If I bargain, I might come to a lower price. But I will never know the true price of what I am buying, and I'll always have the feeling that I am over charged at those places.
Yeah, I have the same feeling. Also there is another thing that bothers me the quality. Things in a department store are usually quality-guaranteed. But at a wholesale market, you never know whether what you are buying are of good quality or not.
That's why I like department stores more. Shopping at a wholesale market like the locals is one of the few things I am unable to grow accustomed to.