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June 20, 2007

DVD Shop Weihai Lu/Maoming Lu

Filed under: Shanghai Prices — Shanghai @ 2:16 am

Buying fake dvd’s in the same place for more than 2 years is mind boggling. The price of dvd’s we pay is 7 kuai for dvd-5 quality and if you buy a tv-series we pay 8 Rmb per disk.

Nothing new and nothing exciting. Once you have agreed a price, unless the dvd market becomes a seller’s market, it makes sense to keep it like that. It stops the energy sucking bargaining process and it’s more time efficient.

But not when the middle aged woman is in charge. Then suddenly she wants a hell of lot more kuai per dvd. Who cares you have been there last week, who cares that you buy a lot. There’s one thing on her mind. To rather have that extra kuai now and lose future sales than having a happy returning customer.

My advice, if the middle aged woman is sitting behind the desk, don’t buy and walk on. If the old man is sitting there, buy. They have a great variety of dvd’s but please ditch the …..

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June 18, 2007

Tailor Chen Plays Computer Games

Filed under: Shanghai Life — Shanghai @ 2:16 am

Walking in Nanchang Lu we noticed Tailor Chen. A male showed us the fabrics and the price for a pair of pants seemed ok, 550 Rmb.

We were willing to buy and thought we’d try to bargain a bit. Just a little and if they had come up with a good counter offer or even a vague promise that we could get a discount next time, we would have accepted and paid. (more…)

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June 14, 2007

The Buildings Are Finished

Filed under: Shanghai Life — Shanghai @ 1:14 am

It’s been some time since I put a new picture online of the building activities in my neighbourhood. Back in october 2005 I published the last picture and since then the building is almost finished. Take a look (more…)

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June 13, 2007

Hong Kong Cartoon

Filed under: China Culture — Shanghai @ 1:11 am

One more cartoon I found in the unlinkable SCMP. The cartoon says it all.

hong kong cartoon

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June 12, 2007

Shanghai Stockmarket Cartoon

Filed under: China Business — Shanghai @ 1:10 am

If you think about investing the Chinese stock market, this cartoon (published July 7, 2007) from the SMCP may help you.

china stock market cartoon

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June 11, 2007

Beijing Olympics Airco Police

Filed under: China Olympics — Shanghai @ 5:04 am

Beiing Olympic Sweat I wasn’t planning on going in 2008 to the Beijing Olympics. Not because I don’t like sports but I’m not crazy about crowds and I’m sure there will be many.

For those contemplating of going there, there may be another reason to think twice.

According to a Dutch paper a new police unit has been formed, the Airco Police. No building can be cooler than 26 degrees celcius.

Hotels, offices, shopping centres and other buildings will be checked by the Airco Control. It will be Beijing’s contribution to the environment….

There will also be a special snitch line. Any disgruntled employees/shoppers etc can call the Airco Unit and tell that their office/shopping mall is too cool.

Way to go, sweating in your hotel, sweating while shopping, sweating in the crowds, probably sweating in the stadiums, just a hell of a lot of sweating.

I can imagine there are better ways to tackle environmental problems in China.

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