Rip-off tourist shopping spots blacklisted
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CITY tour operators have been banned by their trade body from taking groups to two shopping spots that ripped off tourists.
The Shanghai Jinxiu Expo Center and Pu He Sheng Shi jewelry store, both in the Pudong New Area, were declared out of bounds yesterday by the Shanghai Tourism Administration.
They have already been ordered to clean up their act by the city’s market watchdog.
This follows cases where tourists were sold fake jade, jewelry and other items which they could not return as they had no receipts.
However, it is uncertain whether the ban will be heeded by some tour parties, as staff sometimes receive kickbacks from shopping outlets for bringing tourists there.
Local tourism authorities sent the notice to their counterparts in neighboring Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Auhui provinces, from where many tour groups come.
A tourist from Xuzhou, in Jiangsu, told the media that he was recently taken to the Shanghai Jinxiu Expo Center by his tour guide and spent several thousand yuan on jewelry and jade products.
He later discovered these were cheap fakes and wanted to return them, but has no receipt.
The center, in a five-floor former factory building, only receives tour groups, selling silk, jewelry and jade products.
An undercover reporter with Jiefang Daily was offered a percent discount on a gold Buddha statue priced at 28,800 yuan (US$4,645) but told that no receipt would be provided.
In another case, a Hong Kong tourist complained that he was taken to Pu He Sheng Shi jewelry store by a tour guide.
He spent 22,000 yuan on several pieces of jewelry and jade, only to learn from experts when he returned to Hong Kong that these were fake or inferior products.
And even if the items had been authentic, the true price should only have been a tenth of what he was charged, said the tourist.
Investigations into the two businesses are continuing.
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