Amiram Hayardeny's My China Experience

A Bag with a Ticket and a Story

My wife, the curator, bought a leather bag.  In the bag I found a fancy ticket, stating the following: "The materials used have been selected from the best existing ones.  Care and quality of the highest level are guaranteed im enery details of workmaship iln case of wordemanship defects please sirectly contact the boutique wher the item was purchased".

The bag is indeed a good one.  I can tell.  And it has a story.  From its appearance, ticketing and ticketing, you would think that the item was actually manufactured for the US or European markets.  Incidentally, surplus in manufacturing left a few items to be sold in the local market.  But that's only the cover story, what they would like you to believe.  The poor language on the ticket gives it away.  The bag was manufactured in China, for the Chinese market, pretending to be export surplus, and thus justifying the significant overpricing.

This isn't an isolated incidence.  It's actually very common.  My only question is, a few bucks could pay for b basic proofreading, providing a much more credible cover story.  Go figure.  By the way, the bag is good, the poor language provides good grounds for fierce bargaining.  And no, it's not even a fake, it's not a recognizable brand, at least not to me.  In short: a good deal.

Posted at 04:17PM Oct 17, 2008 by Amiram Hayardeny in Personal  |  Comments[2]