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Thailand is a
huge marketplace,
everywhere you go are markets, on almost every street
corner is a market, on almost every piece of street pavement is a market,
in every car park is a market somewhere.
Virtually thousands of small shops who
want to sell you anything you could think about, products who look
similar to others - much more expensive - are
very popular. Of course there are also the usual big "consumer temple" called
shopping mall.
There you
will find all the same things for shopping like in the most malls
anywhere. The difference is, in Thailand the prices are usually lower.
If you want to find
something really native, look for a OTOP shop, OTOP means "one tambon one product",
tambon is county in Thai. The idea was to have the people in one
area concentrate on one particular product for production, e.g.
exotic Christmas presents.
You will always find products from famous well known worldwide
recognized brand names like "the crocodile" shirts, all kinds of
luxury luggage from the French manufacturer, watches who really look
exactly like the original etc.
One
ask himself what should I but, its so many.
Only one thing is for
sure all this not original stuff it looks the same like the
original and now it comes .... is quite often better in terms of quality
than the extremely overpriced original items. How come ? most of |
the goods come from the
same factory who produce the
original Europeans items, its called overstock and surplus.
The difference is only the
money the European luxury companies
pump worldwide into advertising etc. why should a
customer nurture the ad companies? This actually is a endless story and
the advice can only be bargain and buy the good stuff in Thailand and
forget the European stuff.
 Now they scream what is
this guy talking etc. .. it makes me laugh I know how this companies are
working because I served their computer systems for many years and saw
everything. A example, a Spanish or Austrian etc. company buys
a license
from Pierre Cardin to sell apparel under the Pierre Cardin brand. They
produce the stuff and fix the Pierre Cardin logo on the back of the
jacket. The Pierre Cardin logo is the only piece of textile which comes
from Pierre Cardin. Pierre Cardin never saw the apparel pattern, never
checked the quality, don't know anything what is sold under his name,
but gets a lot of money for the logo textile. This is a awful method of
cheating the consumer who thinks this is a suit made by Pierre Cardin
and is willing to pay the extra price ticket for it, he don't know that
he or she is cheated by some textile companies.
Since Thailand has no social "swing", that means if someone cant get to
work to get income, no one will help him, except maybe the family or
clan. But due to the fact that a lot of
 people are moving to the big
cities to try to make some money this family or clan structures are
fading away because in a big city like Bangkok you are alone. This
creates a unbelievable dynamic in Thailand and this dynamic let you get
good stuff for rock bottom prices by shopping in Thailand.
Thailand
native products are available for shopping like handicrafts, gold products, silver products, exotic wood, relief, drawing, painting ,Thai silk, garment, lacquer ware products, sculpting, stone, marble,
lapidary work, tapestries, wood carving, sandal wood products, textile,
mother of pearl, pearls, tribal art, paintings, silver ware,
antiques and
reproduction, pearls jewelry and plenty of other items.
EMARKETTHAILAND
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Thailand trade,
Thailand export,
Thailand product and service,
goods from Thailand,
apparel accessories,
artificial orchid,
silver jewelry, bamboo craft, handbags, jewelry,
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