Buyer beware! After bartering and agreeing on a price, do not give the vendor large bills that require them to make change. Once they have your money they will want to do anything but give you the change.
They will sell you more merchandise or try to sell you batteries!
And keep in mind that they believe that all Westerners are wealthy. So a good phrase to learn is: "I live in Beijing, I make Beijing money - I won't pay more than the citizens here."
And beware, several times we heard in Chinese, "charge them more, they have 2 children." We would go in and pick out what we wanted, take pictures, and then have our Chinese friends go back and buy the product if we were encountering bartering difficulty, however, that seemed to be a rare thing.
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