The copyright in China is awful. A lot of people say it is the bad side of China. But I can understand, because no one is going to pay to download music if there’s the same thing available online for free. That is just human nature. But I did not understand it until I was walking in Chinatown in NY, and there were many street vendors selling DVDs of the latest movie with a really cheap price, I think it was about 3 to 4 dollars. And to my surprise, most of the customers were Americans. Of course no one is going to the movie theatre if they can just watch it at home for 3 bucks.
And it is the same for those designer’s bags. Who is going pay $2000 for something looks the same but you only need to pay $200? I know it is not the same, I know. But in that Silk Road Market next to the US embassy in Beijing, 80% of the customers were foreigners. And those vendors knew at least 5 different languages, but all about selling and bargaining. They started to switch languages when they saw me not responding to their Chinese.
And it is the same for those designer’s bags. Who is going pay $2000 for something looks the same but you only need to pay $200? I know it is not the same, I know. But in that Silk Road Market next to the US embassy in Beijing, 80% of the customers were foreigners. And those vendors knew at least 5 different languages, but all about selling and bargaining. They started to switch languages when they saw me not responding to their Chinese.
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