
Originally Posted by
Meep
I was watching a video on Chinese culture and Chinese 'scams' last night, it mostly revolved around the markets and street market in China but it holds true for online sales as well... The commentator said Chinese retail culture is a "live for today, don't worry about tomorrow" mentality aka if you can unscrupulously scam someone out of $100 today even if it cost you $1000 in lost business next week, it's the right and preferable thing to do in China as they believe there will always be another to scam next week thus no need for return business, and because most other nations business culture is 180 opposite they exploit the foreigners and try to rob them blind... They even have a saying for this live by motto "néng piàn jiù piàn" The commentator also went on to say that retail sellers and even police and government on complacent with 'stealing' money from foreigners to better their own lives and pump money into their own economy even if it's a downright scam or theft so it's basically encouraged...
After watching the video, it opened my eyes up to why these Chinese sellers act the way they do, it's literally part of their retail sales culture and acceptable to them to act this way and scam people, especially foreigners, and yes, they are for all intents taught to do this...
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Oh and surprise surprise, I responded back confirming my address minutes after they asked and now the seller has gone silent with no reply for over a day now and counting about 7 more hours and it will be 48 hours of silence...