This is great! Thanks for having me on and we'll have to meet up when I come back up to Korea! I hope the people watching this enjoyed it, if you have any questions, reply here and I'll be happy to respond!
Hi Collin, big fan here: I just wanted to know what you do with the products you buy. It seems to me that its very unpractical to have loads of clothes and travel at the same time lol.
Hey! Good question @@AMFFreestylers - Usually if I don't use the item, I'll try to find a place to donate some of the stuff. Otherwise, I'll just give it to friends/people I meet along the way. Worst case, I'll ask hotel staff if they're interested in it, haha.
I love the message this guy is giving: "don't be afraid or feel cheap to bargain, because the sellers just want you to pay five times the price", that really has changed my mind next time I'll buy something.
You should tune in to who you're dealing with. You might be dealing with a trader just trying to make as much as possible, or you might be dealing with someone who makes what they're selling just trying to feed their family. Don't play hardball ALL the time.
@@yangjuguangor you just don't believe in spending 1000s of dollars for something that is made for less than 100 lol. Don't get me wrong, if you're a millionaire buying designer stuff is totally fine; most people are not millionaires though, so buying an identical looking item for 10x less the price is super reasonable for them. It's just being smart with your money really lol.
I make things with my hands, and I don't ask too much for my work. When a fellow creator buys my work, they often insist on paying me more than what I ask. My family appreciates that.
I once had a commission from a christian pastor for a sign for his church. I asked for a VERY modest fee. It was a hand carved sign that I couldn't sell to anyone else. He gave me 1/4th of what I asked. I sure as hell won't be going to his church, or doing any more work for him again. ....I had done some work for him on his home before that. He is a cheap sob. I should have known better. and no, he wasn't a poor pastor. He is also a high priced music teacher and quite well off.
Yep, it's always about Korea, China and Japan on this channel. There's more to Asia than just China, Korea and Japan. They seem very biased and prejudice against the rest of Asians.
true they should expand more like they used to, like now Jakarta air pollution is so bad even my friend always cough when outside. ask people what should they and goverment do! @@sombatkhnor5720
0:28: The speaker got into bargaining after wanting to travel and experience something outside his comfort zone. 0:57: The speaker started a UA-cam channel and taught English in China. 1:44: The speaker visited a fake market in Shanghai and was surprised by its location. 3:43: In markets with no standard of quality, haggling is necessary to determine the true value of products. 4:16: The price of a good pair of quality shoes is usually around $30 in these markets. 4:49: Most sellers in these markets openly admit that their products are fake. 7:48: Separate business transactions from charitable transactions. 9:06: Prepare yourself with a positive and friendly attitude. Recap by Tammy AI
I went to Thailand as a 13-year-old with my family. At our hotel, they told us the first day that when haggling we should start at 1/3 of the price and go up to half the price. So we in the end don't pay more than 50% of the asking price. Back then I had limited English and I thought it was easy. I do find it trickier as an adult to haggle though and there were a lot of good arguments in this video.
I'm not sure of where exactly I heard it, but I remember hearing about haggling by offering half of the half of the starting price (1/4 of the original price)
Lol this is what happened to me in Shanghai. Back in 2012, first time in a fake market, didn't know about bargaining at all. I just needed a cheap phone cause mine didn't work there. The lady told me her price, too high for me. I walked out the shop, she told me a lower one, which was still too much for me. As I walked further and further from her shop, she started to tell different prices, I refused them all (I honestly didn't want to pay more than a certain amount). Until I reached the opposite side of the corridor: she shouted the price I was thinking of, way lower than the initial one, so I turned around and bought it 😂
I went to shenzhen in 2018 and I was gonna buy a USB OTG dongle. The store owner asked for 25 Yuan, and for some reason I thought it was $25. So, I bargain for $5, and I said Wu Kuai. The store owner refused and then two seconds later, she agreed, only to realize, I was actually bargaining for 5 yuan, not $5, which is about 69 cents. So, I gave her 10 yuan, she gave me the dongle and 5 yuan change. That is the first time I realize you can bargain more than 5 times lower its offering price in China.
Honestly, a lot of people from Western countries don't understand that bargaining can be super fun, for both the merchant and the buyer. It's like playing a game, and each side is trying to win, but usually there are no hard feelings in the end. If you can haggle really well, you'll even earn their respect!
A lot of Asian people hate it, too. For example, my Vietnamese friends, now in their early thirties: back in 2018, when I travelled to their country and visited one of them who had moved back, they all gave me keys to avoid any kind of bargaining while getting a fair price, even the only female friend who actually liked it. Apparently the country was moving towards a fixed and public price policy.
@@orsaz924 Nothing too advanced, to be honest: eating only at restaurants where you'd know prices in advance, buying only at supermarkets, convenience shops or malls where prices would necessarily be written and clearly shown, and using public transport (where available) or Grab for local transportation (instead of regular taxis), where you'd know in advance the price of the journey (I actually never used this service because I just walk everywhere). In the end it was a very pleasant 20-day trip, the few days I stayed with my friend I quickly learned a few more tricks, and it was great to meet his relatives and be welcomed at a real vietnamese home. Then people everywhere were as nice as my friends, and nobody ever scammed me even at small shops or street restaurants, even when I gave them by mistake bigger banknotes than necessary. It was unavoidable that I fell in a couple of tourist traps and I once booked a subpar hotel (trying to guess how cheap I could go), everything wasn't perfect, but there wasn't anything terrible. A couple of fellow countrymen I met told me they were scammed by taxi drivers just after they arrived at Hanoi airport. I also made sure to avoid buying at markets where it was known you were expected to bargain.
i used to bargain in China in the 1990s. Make it fun is the key and start really really low and go to the market one hour before the closing time. Half the stuff is either stolen real goods or fake spin offs.
my personal rule for traveling internationally and shopping at the flea market or mall. if the seller doesn't display the price then it's negotiation time. even if they display the price, if you do your research then you're still gonna get a better deal too. there are times when you have to walk away, doesn't matter if the seller agreed to your price after a hard negotiation because they played too hard. i believe in a saying that if you're the owner of the item then the item will be yours, but after hard negotiation and you're walked and the seller offered to you then you're not the owner but just a leftover item. there have been times when i just walked away and the seller agreed to my price and i just waved my hand "no thanks."
Don’t all Asian countries haggle? I learned in Bangkok in the late 60s & 70s. I was so use to it that when I came back stateside I tried to bargain with the taxi from the airport! Didn’t work out well. I was Shocked at the prices here! Took awhile to get use to set prices. Bargaining has its pros & cons. Now I would say that a set price is best. Shopping sure is faster! 😂
Not necessarily. Places like taiwan and japan dont haggle too much maybe like a very slight discount, but most places with a price tag won't let you haggle and in those places everything has a price tag. Also Tawian and China don't have a great relationship so they dont get too many goods from China and Japan prides themselves on quality and would not get fake goods.
That's a game I refuse to play. It's all about dishonesty and manipulation. I live assuming honesty and goodwill between caring people. If those are not present, then I have no business with that person. I barely have enough money to live anyway, much less travelling around playing market games.
I used to make and sell arts and crafts at markets and festivals, and I figured my prices to be fair to everyone, the minimum prices that I could afford to do business, and everything was marked....and people would still try to haggle me down. I guess they thought I was just another buy/seller trying to make a profit. Nope. I was just an artist trying to buy my next meal.
One time I ordered a nice looking pair of shoes on Wish. When I got them they look cheap. I put them in the trunk of my car in hot weather, I got home and those shoes shrink like to inches lol. They will not fit anymore.
My moral is, why are videos such as these still permitted to be made and promoting counterfeits / copies of original IPs. The way I see it is this, if you can’t afford it then don’t buy it.
Great Video, He has right with a smile on your face you get a better price. Its always a lots of fun to dealing in this shops. You have to go in there and tell your self your best price. When you dont get it walk away. The importing thing is by a deal, both are happy by the deal. A deal has to be fair.
How can people be happy with fake products ? They post instagram with fake products. AHAHAHA ridiculous 🤣 Fake people love fake products 😂😂😂 All the best!
Expat usually means you already have a job in your home country and you’ve been chosen to work in another country, for the same company. They pay for your housing and living expenses overseas. It doesn’t mean an unemployed person who goes overseas to look for a job, like teaching English.
Expat or expatriate means out of the country in latin and is actually a synonym to immigrant or migrant which mean someone that moved inside. It's more of a matter of semantics. Nowadays, expat is used generally for people that choose to live abroad and immigrat for people who are forced by economic, political or humanitarian situaitions in their home countries to move abroad in search of security and a better life.
Asian Boss! This is one of the best videos you've ever made (just behind your interview with Yeonmi Park). Keep up the great work (but we will NOT tolerate your dovish attitude towards China).
Trump would be a master at this. Dude built a career with the "Art of the Deal." It's just too bad those bootleg goods were stitched by children in some dingy sweatshop for a few pennies a month.
This is great!
Thanks for having me on and we'll have to meet up when I come back up to Korea!
I hope the people watching this enjoyed it, if you have any questions, reply here and I'll be happy to respond!
Collin is 🔥 love his videos
@@nicknorris7833 thank you brother 🔥
Hi Collin, big fan here:
I just wanted to know what you do with the products you buy. It seems to me that its very unpractical to have loads of clothes and travel at the same time lol.
Hey! Good question @@AMFFreestylers - Usually if I don't use the item, I'll try to find a place to donate some of the stuff. Otherwise, I'll just give it to friends/people I meet along the way. Worst case, I'll ask hotel staff if they're interested in it, haha.
Where are you based in, or your constantly on the move?
I love the message this guy is giving: "don't be afraid or feel cheap to bargain, because the sellers just want you to pay five times the price", that really has changed my mind next time I'll buy something.
You should tune in to who you're dealing with. You might be dealing with a trader just trying to make as much as possible, or you might be dealing with someone who makes what they're selling just trying to feed their family. Don't play hardball ALL the time.
if you go to the fake market, you are already cheap, like the man in the vedio
@@yangjuguangor you just don't believe in spending 1000s of dollars for something that is made for less than 100 lol. Don't get me wrong, if you're a millionaire buying designer stuff is totally fine; most people are not millionaires though, so buying an identical looking item for 10x less the price is super reasonable for them. It's just being smart with your money really lol.
I make things with my hands, and I don't ask too much for my work. When a fellow creator buys my work, they often insist on paying me more than what I ask. My family appreciates that.
I once had a commission from a christian pastor for a sign for his church. I asked for a VERY modest fee. It was a hand carved sign that I couldn't sell to anyone else. He gave me 1/4th of what I asked. I sure as hell won't be going to his church, or doing any more work for him again.
....I had done some work for him on his home before that. He is a cheap sob. I should have known better.
and no, he wasn't a poor pastor. He is also a high priced music teacher and quite well off.
She’s like “don’t break my heart”
finally a fresh topic from Asian boss, not only about Japan and Korea
wdym?@@hannesRSA
Yep, it's always about Korea, China and Japan on this channel. There's more to Asia than just China, Korea and Japan. They seem very biased and prejudice against the rest of Asians.
true they should expand more like they used to, like now Jakarta air pollution is so bad even my friend always cough when outside. ask people what should they and goverment do! @@sombatkhnor5720
@@sombatkhnor5720I would think those 3 are what most pple are most interested in. Covering a bit more regularly would be dope though.
Well it's the crew, if most of its members have origins in Japan and Korea (i suspect it's the case) most videos will be on Japan and Korea.
0:28: The speaker got into bargaining after wanting to travel and experience something outside his comfort zone.
0:57: The speaker started a UA-cam channel and taught English in China.
1:44: The speaker visited a fake market in Shanghai and was surprised by its location.
3:43: In markets with no standard of quality, haggling is necessary to determine the true value of products.
4:16: The price of a good pair of quality shoes is usually around $30 in these markets.
4:49: Most sellers in these markets openly admit that their products are fake.
7:48: Separate business transactions from charitable transactions.
9:06: Prepare yourself with a positive and friendly attitude.
Recap by Tammy AI
Thought this was a Colin video at first but even better it's a AB collab ! #grateful
I went to Thailand as a 13-year-old with my family. At our hotel, they told us the first day that when haggling we should start at 1/3 of the price and go up to half the price. So we in the end don't pay more than 50% of the asking price. Back then I had limited English and I thought it was easy. I do find it trickier as an adult to haggle though and there were a lot of good arguments in this video.
I'm not sure of where exactly I heard it, but I remember hearing about haggling by offering half of the half of the starting price (1/4 of the original price)
Lol this is what happened to me in Shanghai. Back in 2012, first time in a fake market, didn't know about bargaining at all. I just needed a cheap phone cause mine didn't work there.
The lady told me her price, too high for me. I walked out the shop, she told me a lower one, which was still too much for me.
As I walked further and further from her shop, she started to tell different prices, I refused them all (I honestly didn't want to pay more than a certain amount).
Until I reached the opposite side of the corridor: she shouted the price I was thinking of, way lower than the initial one, so I turned around and bought it 😂
i love how they give you insane prices thinking about a jackpot lool
I went to shenzhen in 2018 and I was gonna buy a USB OTG dongle. The store owner asked for 25 Yuan, and for some reason I thought it was $25. So, I bargain for $5, and I said Wu Kuai. The store owner refused and then two seconds later, she agreed, only to realize, I was actually bargaining for 5 yuan, not $5, which is about 69 cents. So, I gave her 10 yuan, she gave me the dongle and 5 yuan change. That is the first time I realize you can bargain more than 5 times lower its offering price in China.
Honestly, a lot of people from Western countries don't understand that bargaining can be super fun, for both the merchant and the buyer. It's like playing a game, and each side is trying to win, but usually there are no hard feelings in the end. If you can haggle really well, you'll even earn their respect!
Exactly
A lot of Asian people hate it, too. For example, my Vietnamese friends, now in their early thirties: back in 2018, when I travelled to their country and visited one of them who had moved back, they all gave me keys to avoid any kind of bargaining while getting a fair price, even the only female friend who actually liked it. Apparently the country was moving towards a fixed and public price policy.
@@duozuo I'd be interested in knowing what those tips were
@@orsaz924 Nothing too advanced, to be honest: eating only at restaurants where you'd know prices in advance, buying only at supermarkets, convenience shops or malls where prices would necessarily be written and clearly shown, and using public transport (where available) or Grab for local transportation (instead of regular taxis), where you'd know in advance the price of the journey (I actually never used this service because I just walk everywhere).
In the end it was a very pleasant 20-day trip, the few days I stayed with my friend I quickly learned a few more tricks, and it was great to meet his relatives and be welcomed at a real vietnamese home. Then people everywhere were as nice as my friends, and nobody ever scammed me even at small shops or street restaurants, even when I gave them by mistake bigger banknotes than necessary. It was unavoidable that I fell in a couple of tourist traps and I once booked a subpar hotel (trying to guess how cheap I could go), everything wasn't perfect, but there wasn't anything terrible. A couple of fellow countrymen I met told me they were scammed by taxi drivers just after they arrived at Hanoi airport. I also made sure to avoid buying at markets where it was known you were expected to bargain.
@@user-ik6yq8gj9x We shouldn't judge different cultures from our own's perspective.
I watched both channels!! Love this collaboration ❤
Was not expecting another interview
i used to bargain in China in the 1990s. Make it fun is the key and start really really low and go to the market one hour before the closing time. Half the stuff is either stolen real goods or fake spin offs.
my personal rule for traveling internationally and shopping at the flea market or mall. if the seller doesn't display the price then it's negotiation time. even if they display the price, if you do your research then you're still gonna get a better deal too. there are times when you have to walk away, doesn't matter if the seller agreed to your price after a hard negotiation because they played too hard. i believe in a saying that if you're the owner of the item then the item will be yours, but after hard negotiation and you're walked and the seller offered to you then you're not the owner but just a leftover item. there have been times when i just walked away and the seller agreed to my price and i just waved my hand "no thanks."
Please do Malaysian bargaining video. We have lots of fake goods there.
Don’t all Asian countries haggle? I learned in Bangkok in the late 60s & 70s. I was so use to it that when I came back stateside I tried to bargain with the taxi from the airport! Didn’t work out well. I was Shocked at the prices here! Took awhile to get use to set prices. Bargaining has its pros & cons. Now I would say that a set price is best. Shopping sure is faster! 😂
Don't bargain on services ever !
Not necessarily. Places like taiwan and japan dont haggle too much maybe like a very slight discount, but most places with a price tag won't let you haggle and in those places everything has a price tag. Also Tawian and China don't have a great relationship so they dont get too many goods from China and Japan prides themselves on quality and would not get fake goods.
Wait PPL learn Bargaining wtf 😂😂
Don't break my heart 🤣🤣🤣 pulling the heart strings..
Best collab do more of this
Great content! Keep it up 🔥
That's a game I refuse to play. It's all about dishonesty and manipulation. I live assuming honesty and goodwill between caring people. If those are not present, then I have no business with that person. I barely have enough money to live anyway, much less travelling around playing market games.
I used to make and sell arts and crafts at markets and festivals, and I figured my prices to be fair to everyone, the minimum prices that I could afford to do business, and everything was marked....and people would still try to haggle me down. I guess they thought I was just another buy/seller trying to make a profit. Nope. I was just an artist trying to buy my next meal.
Been to Istanbul a week ago, they are doing the same over there😂
heavy version of deal or no deal
One time I ordered a nice looking pair of shoes on Wish. When I got them they look cheap. I put them in the trunk of my car in hot weather, I got home and those shoes shrink like to inches lol. They will not fit anymore.
If you’re not trying to “get over” on someone you will be remembered as a good buyer.
Friendly banter is appreciated.
I actually agree 💯
Won't haggle?~ Monty python
and those shoes are, no doubt, made by little kids...
My moral is, why are videos such as these still permitted to be made and promoting counterfeits / copies of original IPs.
The way I see it is this, if you can’t afford it then don’t buy it.
Not all people can buy original stuff
Great Video, He has right with a smile on your face you get a better price. Its always a lots of fun to dealing in this shops. You have to go in there and tell your self your best price. When you dont get it walk away. The importing thing is by a deal, both are happy by the deal. A deal has to be fair.
Chinese & Indians is the king of bargains, bring them along if you are not good on it.
Openly allowing trademark infringement?
Can you please cover the topic of Japan's dumping radioactive waters into the ocean? I believe many folks would be very interested in it.
Damn collin
Bargain Rizz
More Philippines content please.
Collin 🇵🇭
Usually their rent is expensive that's why they put the price higher
how you got 3m subs ang get barely 100k views?
hOW DO YOU THINK? it's been spoken about.
Funny.
white english teacher abroad .. sigh
I’m a great bargain negotiator whether I’m home in the US, in Mexico or Asia.
As a stupid American I like to bargain down as much as possible and then give much of it back in a tip.
This 😂
How can people be happy with fake products ? They post instagram with fake products.
AHAHAHA ridiculous 🤣
Fake people love fake products 😂😂😂 All the best!
So you'd buy a $100 dollar designer shirt when u can just buy a knockoff that's practically the same for $10?
@@booIinIt’s not about the price. It’s about the quality. Who intentionally buys a fake product that will break soon?
@@stonefree7973 the problem is most of those designer stuff are really not that quality
Expat usually means you already have a job in your home country and you’ve been chosen to work in another country, for the same company. They pay for your housing and living expenses overseas. It doesn’t mean an unemployed person who goes overseas to look for a job, like teaching English.
Expat or expatriate means out of the country in latin and is actually a synonym to immigrant or migrant which mean someone that moved inside. It's more of a matter of semantics. Nowadays, expat is used generally for people that choose to live abroad and immigrat for people who are forced by economic, political or humanitarian situaitions in their home countries to move abroad in search of security and a better life.
This is not Asian Boss type content. Disappointed
It's diffrent. for a change.
Japan starts from faking others.
China*
China
Japan is a country of innovation even if their output has slowdown while China is the biggest intellectual thief and copycat in the world
Asian Boss!
This is one of the best videos you've ever made (just behind your interview with Yeonmi Park). Keep up the great work (but we will NOT tolerate your dovish attitude towards China).
Trump would be a master at this. Dude built a career with the "Art of the Deal." It's just too bad those bootleg goods were stitched by children in some dingy sweatshop for a few pennies a month.
asian boss so boring👎