China Romance
General Discussion and Useful Links => Ask An Experienced Member => Topic started by: fivetrout on July 23, 2012, 07:18:59 pm
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Hi all! Well I've got the online flower buying down, but what about other gifts? Is there online shopping in China in English with quick delivery and low shipping rates such as an department store or Amazon? Thanks!
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Here is the place I like best.
http://www.amazon.cn/ (http://www.amazon.cn/)
It is affiliated with amazon.com and has the same look and feel except everything is in Chinese. But you can find just about anything there and once you set up your payment account, purchasing and paying is very quick.
They have a distribution center here in Guangzhou so everything for me arrives the next day. And it is delivered right to your door. The prices are better that the other merchants around here by about 10-20 percent.
Here a some others but I wouldnt trust them as far as I could throw them.
http://www.paipai.com/?pps=etg.0_11178_9_0&outInfo=&PTAG=20097.1.1 (http://www.paipai.com/?pps=etg.0_11178_9_0&outInfo=&PTAG=20097.1.1)
http://www.aliexpress.com/ (http://www.aliexpress.com/) (great prices but they will not ship to mainland china.)
gome is a retailer of appliances and electrical toys but I cant find their online store anymore. (maybe because their shares have dropped 20% and the owner is now in Jail)
Suning Appliance is a major competitor of gome.
Best buy has a partner here in China Five Star Appliance Co., Ltd. I dont know if they sell online or not.
And of course what would China be without Walmart? They have an online sams store. http://www.samsclub.cn/sams/homepage.jsp (http://www.samsclub.cn/sams/homepage.jsp)
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without Walmart and the efforts of Sam Walton, China, would still be China, but they wouldn't have so many manufacturing jobs, because Walmart would not have forced companies to move their operations to China, or be dropped from Walmart's supplier list...
don't forget annie flower, I've used them several times. they offer the basic flowers, candy, stuffed animals, and such. definately cheaper than using the agency gift site and depending on where your lady is, much more convenient.
http://www.annieflower.com (http://www.annieflower.com)
http://www.chinaflower.com.cn (http://www.chinaflower.com.cn)
Lloyd
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Great! I'll take a look!
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I wonder where WalMart in China gets their crap from? Mexico?
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No they import it from England. ;)
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No they import it from England. ;)
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No they import it from England. ;)
But then we are clever as we can sell anything to the USA. Even London Bridge which they thought was the iconic Tower Bridge. ;D ;D ;D
Willy
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No worries Willy we Have a couple of people working at the Bridge.Everytime a British tourist comes to see the bridge.They sell the bridge back to The British tourist at half price. the last thirty years.We have made enough money from the British tourist.To build a rd around the world.We are just waiting for you.To come and cut the red ribbon to open the new rd.
If your interested I have a different Bridge.Or a statue to sell you if your that interested.
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No worries Willy we Have a couple of people working at the Bridge.Everytime a British tourist comes to see the bridge.They sell the bridge back to The British tourist at half price. the last thirty years.We have made enough money from the British tourist.To build a rd around the world.We are just waiting for you.To come and cut the red ribbon to open the new rd.
If your interested I have a different Bridge.Or a statue to sell you if your that interested.
British Tourist coming to the USA? Is that plural? You mean you get more than one tourist voluntarily going into the USA. ;D
Willy
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yeah all the time.They come hear to get away from stogy old England.Hell they even overstay there visa's and immigration has to round them up.I know nurses and doctor's and musicians.That have all defected from England.The doctor and the nurse have ben here for over twenty years.The musician has ben here close to thirty years.Jolly old England isn't so Jolly.That's why you run into Britt's all over the world.I even ran into one who was living in the ghetto in Mexico.He told me he would Rather live in the ghetto in Mexico.Then ever go back.To England.
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Sorry Maxx. I am afraid you do not have the correct balance of sarcasism to compete. ;D
Good try though. But then maybe it is because mine comes from my heart and not from the keyboard. 8)
Willy
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Willy i would reply.But I have to take the kids outside and play.In the sunshine.with the green grass.And the warm air.I will think of you while you are sucking another lung full of poluted stinking air.
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Gee thanks Maxx. Nice of you to think of me.
Still taking the kids out into the fresh air is something I never intended to do, ever and it will never happen. I long ago stuck to guns (whoa, that's a bad phrase for me) and decided never to bring another sole into this world. There are too many already and kids would not have fitted into my lifestyle.
How bad was the air in Zhuhai when you were last there? Zhongshan is even smaller and has the same big roads with far less cars and no heavy industrial factories to pollute the Pearl Delta Estuary.
By the time that happens I will be on the way out from this world having lived a most eventful and interesting and well travelled life without the incumberment of an immediate family.
The only place that I ever got sick with bad water was the good old USA. But i think that was on my fourth or fifth visit - can't remember which but at my age the memory does go astray at times.
Willy
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and decided never to bring another sole into this world. There are too many already and kids would not have fitted into my lifestyle.
Willy
Nor fit into your shoes ;D
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Willy I was there in 2010.I never really thought Zhuhai or Zhongshan air was that bad.With the wind blowing off the water it keeps it relatively fresh.As you know the farther you get in country the worse it gets.GZ,Wuhan,Beijing,I thought were the worst.
Have you ever gone to the island out in Zhuhai bay.If not check it out if you get a chance.The bus can drop you off right at the rd.out to the island.we used to rent bikes and ride around the island.It is probably 3 Kilometers around.The whole island.I have walked it a couple of times.It is a nice place to hang out.Lovers rd in Zhuhai is real nice at night.If you get a chance take your wife.I think she would like that.
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Beijing is the most polluted place on earth. No joke. I am not making it up. Guangzhou cant be too far behind.
I lived in SHENZHEN for a year and never got sick.
This old man's immune system is no match for the subtropical bio-breeding ground of Guangzhou. My first year here in Guangzhou I was constantly bothered with dysentery and the like.
I have been in the hospital three times with bleeding stomach and ulcers. I catch more colds than ever here. If you ride the bus, chances are you will see someone coughing up a lung and he is almost always sitting next to you. I regularly have a lung infection and have to go to the Doctor for antibiotics to clear it up. And then there is the ear infections and flesh eating bacteria ( I am missing a piece of my nose). I cant wait to get home to the dry climate of Colorado. Any germ that follows me home will wither and die within 24 hours
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Have you ever gone to the island out in Zhuhai bay.If not check it out if you get a chance.The bus can drop you off right at the rd.out to the island.we used to rent bikes and ride around the island.It is probably 3 Kilometers around.The whole island.I have walked it a couple of times.It is a nice place to hang out.Lovers rd in Zhuhai is real nice at night.If you get a chance take your wife.I think she would like that.
Been there and done that many times when I was living there, it was before I met my wife and was with several different women.
Willy
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I think I am going to give it a try. There are a lot of things to do there listed in the travel guides.
Is this Island called pouch island?
Is there a train from Zhongshan to Zhuhai?
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There is a train from Zhongshan to Zhuhai. there is also a direct train from Guangzhou to Zhuhai.
A bus from Zhongshan to Zhuhai costs about 30 rmb.
The is a replica old palace there which one lady said my ancestors probably destroy the original where ever it was. I did not tell her my Dad was here in the army in the 20's.
Willy
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The old palace was in Shenyang. The summer palace is in Beijing. I have seen them both. I think the replica here is modeled after the one in Beijing.
Something interesting happened when I was looking for tourist attraction there. the website trip adviser grabbed my Facebook ID and used it to access all of my contacts back home. (without my permission)
So here is a good idea if your going to be browsing the net, log off of everything that you don't want seen. I guess if they can do this with your Facebook account they cant grab your contacts from Hotmail and you account balance from your bank. I did not know this was possible until now. And possibly if you have auto logon in some of your online accounts the information in you cookies could be used to log in for you. This is scary.
stay away from this website.
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that's why I never use auto logs, don't save passwords. granted, when you lose internet at the house (because they can't block the vpn) you have to wing it and then PayPal sends you an email that they stopped all payments and purchases and flagged your account as being used for fraud... really annoying. At least my bank knows and they send me texts, prior to trying to lock down the account.
as for pollution, The air outside Handan is great, especially up in the mountains to the west. As for Handan itself, you'll want a heavy supply of meds before arriving. I take a vitamins and some even pack allergy pills, maybe it has something to do with a "small" town of 8,000,000 in an area that is 1/4 the size of Detroit and the multiple steel mills. of course I could be mistaken...
when my wife gets to America and her lungs get the chance to recover from living here, she is gonna hate her visit home to see her mama and nainai. Then she will understand why I cough so much.
Lloyd
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LLoyd,
I know what you mean by the supply of meds but I have been here and my supply of everything is gone. I just got back from the clinic. I have another lung infection. I get about one a month here. I had an earache last week that my body managed to suppress but most infections here my body has never seen before and my immune system does not know how to cope. I am dying (literally) to get out of here and go home.