What To Be Careful Of In A Large City
If anyone ever offers to give you a used laptop or a refurbished laptop on the street for free, don’t take it! It could have
any number of viruses on it or anything! The things that you can run into in a big city are innumerable and if you can help it, you will want to stay away from them. There are all kinds of people who are wanting and willing to take advantage of any number of people in a city. If someone were ever to come up to you on the street offering you a laptop for free, it could either mean that it might be stolen, or has viruses on it, or is a bomb of some sort. Those sorts of things happen all the time on subways and stuff where they keep an extra eye out for suspicious activities.
Now, street vendors are a horse of a different color. They are generally not out to wreak havoc unto the populace, but are merely on the street trying to make a living. Despite their seemingly good intentions, you still will want to make sure that the thing or things that they are selling to you is absolutely worth the price that they are asking. You do not want to fall victim to one of their scams, nor do you want to be duped by the vendor. Instead of standing by thewayside and letting them take advantage of you, you need to be able to barter and to try to wiggle the price around a bit to fit your budget.
While I was in New York City on a band trip this past spring, we were able to go into China Town and do some tourist shopping.
I remember walking into so many shops that had all of the faux Coach purses displayed proudly on the surrounding walls and the small Chinese woman standing in the center of the mess of “designer” bags calling out each bag’s price to us, the customers. We were crammed into that little shop like sardines in a tin ten times too small for us and were taken aback by the high numbers she was calling out for these bags. So finally, someone in the sardine crowd haggled her way into one of the lessons I learned. I went next door to the ring stand, which was really the one I was excited about, and got the ring that I wanted for seven dollars less than the asking price. That was not the only lesson I learned in New York City, but it certainly was one of them.
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