I get almost daily emails from a
Chinese mail order site. I cannot recall buying anything from them
before, but I have succumbed to making a couple of purchases over
the past week. The prices are amazing and most items are freight
free to Australia. I have purchased from other Chinese based
companies in the past..mainland China and Hong Kong and been more
than satisfied with the results. The only poor purchase was of a
package of rechargeable AA batteries....hardly any of them worked
properly.
On the site where I made my latest
purchase I found a Dick Tracy watch....a watch which is also a mobile
phone. If you don't know who Dick Tracy is then you might want to
read up on him here. I didn't buy the watch. Imagine answering the
wrist phone/watch in a busy shopping centre. Embarrassing!
Anyway, my two purchases are a 16Gb
flash drive which is concealed in a functioning pen and a
photographer's fill-in flash. Ridiculously low prices and useful
stuff. On the same site are dozens of smart-phone knock-offs
running Android software. China is the new Japan for copies of
anything.
Friends living in Sydney recently
returned from trip which included Hawaii and Japan. In Japan Albert
was in demand with young students wanting to practise their English.
Here is Albert surrounded by some lovelies. He reckons it is the
hat that does it.
Albert and lovelies at Osaka Station
3 comments:
your post reminded me to add a flash drive to my shopping list. I want to download some ebooks. What size do you suggest Kev, they are expensive here, or I think they are. Albert looks quite happy.....:-)Hugs
8GB is fine for most saves.
Kev
Kev --- we think the Net shopping thing will really hurt retail outlets, even more in the future than currently
My wife buys hardcover books so much cheaper from UK and U S sources, and some of these outlets are freight free. Saves lugging them home in the bags in the aircraft holds as we used to do in the mid to late 2000s, from London in particular
And she can buy chlorine-resistant swimmers from the US cheaper than at Myer or other Oz shops. And they have to be freighted here, into the bargain.
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