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Don't buy things (for example, crafts, gems, exotic clothes, etc.) for reselling in your own home country—you are surely being duped of your hard-earned money. Don't get greedy hearing schemes of profit, albeit asking for your initial investment. You'll get stuff of your choice elsewhere too (in other cities, at other shops, with other dealers, for there is no dearth of them all in India ). Anyone's problems like custom clearances, family hardships, personal debts, lost paperwork, etc. are their headaches, not problems to be even considered by you, leave alone helping with them.
An important advice which will save you a good amount of money is about haggling for it! Bargaining is the way of shopping across India . Nowadays many supermarkets, showrooms of branded goods, etc. have come up, which are essentially fixed price shops. But at local shops or road-side shops you must bargain and show disinterest in the product saying it is just too costly, no matter what price is quoted initially. The prices are always inflated for tourists especially foreigners. The hike could be anywhere from 20% to 100% of the original price! |
