Faking hell!

Sue requested a trip to the fakes and fabric market.  The market is a huge, undergraoud maze where you can get a very good fake of almost everything and where you can also have clothes made.  Depending on when you go and if you take children with you it can be hellish!  We decided to go for the opening at 10 o'clock one morning which was a good decision.  We had the place to ourselves and everyone was keen to make their first sale as it gives good luck for the day. 

We had a few specific items we were looking for including a watch and a purse.  The run of the mill fakes tend to be on display in the shop from but if you are a really serious buyer then you get taken in to a secret room!  It was great to watch Sue's face as Agatha Christie style a whole shelving unit at the back of the shop swung open and we were hurried through and shut in to view a better selection of goods.

A secret room

Between the four of us we managed to get a good bargaining routine going.  The shopkeeper would name a wildly inflated price, Sue would name her price, the shopkeeper would then drop his price a little, Sue would refuse to budge at all, William and Oliver would start getting bored so I would say we are going and the shopkeeper would give it to Sue for her price!  We managed to get an 8gb ipod shuffle down from £80 to just under £20!

The trip was such a success and we got so many bargains that we are going back next week!