china/taiwan

[calvin88]

So im going to go to China to see my dad for about a week then fly on over to Taiwan to see the rest of my family. I haven't been to China ever and the last time I was in Taiwan was about 9-10 years ago so it's going to be a lot differnt this time around. Any ideas on how not to get ripped off too badly? haha. I can speak mandarain, not well but enough to get me around.

[metalgeek]

I'm currently in Taiwan, and don't have any real problems getting ripped off. I think it's a fair amoun different than it was 10 years ago now, really the only places without price tags are the night markets, and even a lot of the stands in there have them.
Best way I always found to not get ripped off is ask more than one vendor for pricing, some of them are nice and honest, some not so much. As well, ask around about the prices people paid for things. It's common to ask here, so people usually don't mind.

edit: unless your wondering about being ripped off in China? they will try there. let me know which your wondering about, and if it's China, what you're planning on buying. I'll let you know what the price should probably be.