W: Survival Guide Because I'm going to be going through all of These Scams That you would most

Probably encounter from the moment you step off the plane landing in china

All the Way Through Sort of Daily life and even if You live Here.

Well Hello guys and welcome to another video Today we're going to be talking about

Scammers and in fact Here we have a Whole bunch of Scammers behind me we're going to talk about them in a minute

Now the point of This video is really to prepare anyone who wants to travel to china

prepare them to have a Good time and we're going to start with Those Guys Behind me

Those are Black Taxi Scammers

When you Walk Out of The Airport or

Even Just Cross The Border into China The first People you're probably going to see are these black taxi Scammers They'll Be shouting out in

English They'll Be shouting taxi taxi taxi

Do not Go with Those Guys

They're a complete ripoff They're going to charge a Lot of Money and

Now Let'S move on to the next Thing by The Way

This guy You might recognize if You Watch anything about Bargaining Right How about an Introduction Hey i'm colin You call on a Broadcast

I do a Lot of Bargaining videos Here in the Fake Markets of China and Today We are here with Serpent's a Day

When People come on

Holiday to China One of The Things they want to do is get a deal right Because Everybody Knows you can buy cheap Either

KnockofF or you Know Just Basically Cheap Products clothing Handbags You name It you can buy it right

Right But There are a couple of Things People Need to know

so since you Hear the guy does all the sort of Bargaining videos Maybe You can Give People a Little Bit of Advice

When You come to china?

Bargaining is Pretty Much a Sport and

You're literally Expected to Bargain for the lowest price like if you don't Bargain for the lowest price Then They're not going to respect you

And i When a Lot of Foreigners come to China it Just Kind of Like?

Like me coming from the Wife's leg When i first came here i met

Alright Yeah That Seems Like a Good price Let's Just do it like Just to be polite you know but uh That's not how it

Is here in china in fact they Actually take Advantage of sort of Western Sensibilities we we don't want

To bargain Because we think It might Be Rude or you know like we think we're

Ending Them or something Up and so They'll offer You an Outrageous price like maybe you can give an Example of something you've

You Know price You've Been offered and how much you actually Got It for in the end okay yeah so i think the biggest price

difference That i've had is i was Bargaining for a Hoop low Watchos

4,500 un that Was their starting price right four Thousand How much is that in us dollars That's Almost Like a Thousand us dollars

Okay i Say Maybe Like eight Hundred us dollars no i see 675 sorry okay so 675 and

My counteroffer Was like 100 Um Which is like fifteen Dollars and it's like That's such a Huge difference but the thing is like

They don't Get offended by That Because That's like Expected so the

Ultimate price i still think i paid a little too much It Was like three Hundred dollars Which is like

300 rmb yeah excuse me three Hundred

Which is like Fifty Dollars so okay so we went down from 675 down to 50 right and you could Have definitely

Gone Lower and Probably Yeah i mean That's something you have to realize is that The People are not gonna sell something?

Unless They're Making a Profit Right They're Not gonna let It Go if They're not making a profit so you're not ripping them off

Right Exactly You Know They're gonna rip you off but Here's a little tip if you want the best Deals

come Early Because iF you're the first customer at Any of these Places They will actually sometimes drop even Lower

Because Being The first customer it's Kind of a Luck Thing it's a tradition Thing okay

Superstition more Like so they won't Turn Away Their first customer okay so sometimes you can Get the best Deals if you go early

Oh i learned something New today Cool Anyway we're gonna go check out the counterfeit Markets with Him if you want

To see that i'm gonna link His video because i'm gonna continue talking about Scams but yeah if you want

To go see that Let's move on to his and then we'll continue here perfect yep let's do this?

Another Thing to watch Out for a Fake months in fact there's One right Behind us and

What They'll do is They'll Approach You and try to give you like a Try to give you like a Good Luck Charm

and then What happens Is you'll Feel

Obliged Because They hand this Thing to you they don't ask if you want it or not They'll give you this like sort of

Chintzy Looking Gold And Good Luck Charm and Then They'll Kind of Ask for Money or a Donation and

They'll follow You they won't leave you alone so if you Just take that charm and you try to walk away

They'll follow You and They'll Start Pestering You for a back Until you give them Money so

Beware of all The Fake Monks You know real Monks don't wander the streets trying to extort Money Real Monks Stay in Monasteries

Now before i continue and tell You about more Scams Let's Talk about Why there are so many Scams and Why

Scamming Is so prevalent in China Because of Course you will find Scammers everywhere in the world i know if you go to

soho in london You'll Get you know the Dodgy sort of

Girlie Bar Scams I know that if you go to eastern Europe You'll get all the taxi Scams Usual Kind of Things

The difference is That

Scamming to some degree or the other is more or less Baked into chinese Society and

I'm not trying to sound mean or or Weird it's Just Part of the mentality here and that is

for instance if i walked into a small Shop over here or

If i go to a wet Market and i'm buying some vegetables They will always be this Kind of

give and Take

Try to make a Buck here and there Kind of Mentality if

Somebody can Make a Little Bit of Money They will make a Little Bit of Money off of you and

It's actually Got a name Here in China Which i've said before in some of my Other videos but

There's an idiom Which is non p&G opium Which Just means if you can Cheat then cheat there's also a

Mentality at The moment Very prevalent in China especially in Business

Where people are not concerned about the long term They're only concerned about The short term so if a Businessman can Make

20,000 rmb Today and Forego a Hundred Thousand Darby's Worth of Business in the future he will do it

There are Plenty of Examples But

That's not What this video is about Support scamming Let's get on to the next scam

Now the next scam Should Be easy to avoid if you have a Healthy dose of common sense but a Subscriber of mine?

Fell for This two Weeks Ago he met up with me and he told me his story

So i thought i'd relate it to you Just in case

He was in the electronics district here in Shenzhen in han Bay Looking at Gadgets and Phones and Things Like That and he was Approached

By Somebody on the street Who claimed to be from hong Kong

Now Bear with me because i've Been approached by these Guys before and they will always claimed to be from

Taiwan or singapore or something like That you know obviously not from China Because well That's part of Their Scam

So the guy Says you know i'm from hong kong i came Over the border and my Wallet Was stolen and

I can't get back home you

Know all i have with me is my cellphone

It Would You want to buy it from me so i can have some money to get back home and

you Know he's Got like a Brand new iPhone

7 and he shows It to my subscriber and he Says look here see it's it's real and Everything

So they Check the Phone out and yeah it's a real iPhone 7 take some photos You know make sure it's the real Deal

and so the Guy Hands over the Money You know a couple of Thousand rMb and

Then The Seller Used some sort of sleight of hand and When he gave him like the box

There Was Actually a Fake iPhone

Inside of It so he spent a couple of Thousand rMB for a Phone That's worth about a Hundred and Fifty RMb

Which is and i've Got a smile on my face Because it'S quite silly

but You know that that could be quite a Blow especially if you don't have a lot of Money so

This is Actually Fairly common if Anyone tries to sell you anything on the street you Should Probably Think twice Because

you Know if it's not a scam it's probably Stolen Anyway

So up till Now you're probably Thinking that in China Scams Only Affect foreigners but This is absolutely not the truth

Local People Get Scammed Just As Much iF not more Than Foreigners the only difference being That Because you're a Foreigner

People in China think that you're rich They think you've Got Money and of Course the language

Barrier Makes It so Much Easier for them to scam you

Especially Since You won't be Able to talk to the police because the police in china cannot Speak english it's Just a fact

It's incredibly rare to find a police Woman or policeman Who can Actually Speak english and even if They do

you Know the Criminal or the scammer because They're chinese they know the

Society Here they Know how things Work and they will always Be Able to Turn Things in their favor

So in other Words You Pretty Much, Have no chance up against a Scammer if You can't Speak chinese here in china?

AnyWay back to the point chinese People Get Scammed and a

Subscriber of mine a chinese Subscriber of Mine told me a story a Week ago that Happened to him and

This is something That can Affect you know both chinese and Foreigners alike and it's got to do with dating right Now

it's Been become Very Very Popular Lately to use dating apps i

Guess it'S something Similar to tinder you know those Kind of Things you get a Whole

Lot of Them Here in china you've got. Ton ton you've Got more more You've Got i

can't remember But There's a Whole Lot and it's not Only

Chinese People That are using them foreigners are using these apps too

Even a Lot of The foreigners i know who can't even speak chinese use them because you know you can Install It Fairly easily and

It's Just a couple of Clicks of a Button and you can Start swiping Through

People in your area and then you know you Say You like them and if

They See that You've Liked them and They like you back you can start a Conversation

You Know that Kind of Thing and People use it as a Hookup App to

To get a day to

One-Night stand or whatever you know the

The Usual Kind of Crap But Because of That There's a Lot of Scams a Lot of Scams Built-in with These Apps

Now What Happened with My chinese Subscriber Is

He met a Girl on one of These apps and

She invited him out well he invited her out for a Drink and she said sure?

Let'S Go out for a Drink i know a Great Place

Okay so he goes to this place That she Recommends and it's a Little bar a Little Dingy bar he had three Drinks

Like Three Just Weak little Drinks and the bill came to

Three Thousand RMb

okay and Then There Was nothing he could do because a

Bunch of Like Big Thugs came in When he didn't want to pay cuz he refused to pay and They extorted Him and Basically

Forced Him to pay the Money Yeah

Hello

How are you

okay

I'm Good thanks all right Got a couple of followers Here hello

okay mm-Hmm hi

This is

Lots of fun Anyway

so hmm

Thugs came in made Him pay he called the police the police came

They shut the Place down

That's Very Nice Yeah okay now police take a Hike if you don't Mind okay mm-Hmm

So Anyway the guy was extorted The thugs Wouldn't Let Him leave until he paid

So he ended up paying the three Thousand rMb and he went straight

To the police and then the police went with Him he took the police to the little bar and the police shut it down and

you Know assured Him that They Would investigate It and sort it all Out so yeah the bar Got shut down and then

He just Kept calling the police to find out What had Happened and they Kind of Just IGnored Him and

He went back a Few Days Later and the place is open again and

This is because Usually The Scammers are in Cahoots with the local police i mean how else can an

establishment Like a Teahouse or a bar or something

continue to run if They keep getting complaints

That They're scamming People right it's because

They know the local police Because They've Got What they call one xi or Connections

So he didn't Get his three Thousand back the bar opened up again and there Was nothing he could do about it

Now the next scan i'm going to talk about is probably the most well Known scam and if You've Watched my videos before you Should

Be Familiar With It Anyway It is called the tea house scam but of course it comes in many Variations

The Gist of This scam is that You'll be Approached

Usually By attractive Young Women if you're a Man look Women are not immune to this scam either Because

People are still Approached Women you know so young Women Will approach Young Women and try to befriend them Now these scams are

TyPically Found in Beijing and Shanghai

That's where you'll find them the most

anywhere on Nanjing Road you know nanjing lu in

shanghai which is this Very popular sort of Touristy shopping area You will be Approached in

Beijing You Will Be Approached anywhere Near Tiananmen square

you Know the Forbidden City

Excuse me i'm walking Over Puddles and you Know Anyway

You Know you'll be Approached in 1:14 any of The Tourist areas By usually not one but two