Going to HK Purchasing Advice please

**QfanatiQ** · 30th January 2004

Ok im of to Hong Kong in Feb, going with a guy who lived out there and family still does.

I want to do some purhcases but do not have money to throw around, im not thinking DVD's or similare samll bits but thinking one big spend or some smaller but decent key things, PC, Console wise etc etc.

Any help advice greatly appreciated. Cheers.....Q

**Thrush** · 30th January 2004

errr... dental work. The dental work in HK is meant to be excellent and cheap. Well compared to Japanese prices anyway.

**QfanatiQ** · 30th January 2004

Well as it happens I am in the market for a nice Gold Tooth, but cant imagine actually getting that on holiday...

Well there have certianly been lots of sugestions, i shall print this out rather than write them down,

cheers.....Q

**{{909}}** · 30th January 2004

well apart from cueball, theres no other members of this board who reside anywhere near the far east, so dont expect a huge amount of replys man!

the only think i can think of that comes from hk and u could make cash on is dvd silvers

**QfanatiQ** · 30th January 2004

I just thougth people might have been out there, it is only my sarci nature, i certainly do not take offense to no or few replies.

I am looking to get a few bits of weaponary, used to bring stuff back from San Fran but that was before 9/11 so despite being stored in my suitcase dunno how they might feel about this:coffee: .

Cheers.....Q

**MsDG** · 30th January 2004

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Don't buy any chickens!

**QfanatiQ** · 30th January 2004

Dirtygirl, what an eF..in great user name..

But why no chickens?

Cheers.....Q

**dingle_666** · 30th January 2004

Originally Posted by QfanatiQ

Dirtygirl, what an eF..in great user name..

But why no chickens?

Cheers.....Q

birdflu

**QfanatiQ** · 30th January 2004

was not aware it had reached HK yet, but thought it would do real soon.

I thought it only effected certain species for some reason??

I better read up on that.

Cheers.....Q

**Thrush** · 31st January 2004

All over China... loads of people are popping off to chicken heaven.... I can't suggest anything else to buy.... moody watches, copied games and movies. The piracy is so bad in HK that they have closed down all the Blockbuster video shops... not because people are hiring the films and copying them, but due to the fact it's cheaper to buy a copy then to rent the film... hahahaha

I guess you could buy some mobile phones.... not too sure if the system is the same as the uk. We have tons of brilliant phones in Japan and I am sure I could make a fortune but... totally different system... none of the phones have sims here... everything is internal.

So there you have it... dental work, moody goods and cheap phones.... welcome to Hong Kong the gate way to the oppressed country loving known by it's citizens as HELL or as some might call it... China

**QfanatiQ** · 31st January 2004

Cheers, .....Q

**joey** · 31st January 2004

mobile phone items are extremely cheap down there like the sony's bluetooth car and bluetooth handsfree kits. nearly half price. digital cameras are also extremely cheap. my mate went there about 4 months ago. im planning to head there soon for the summer. great place!

joe

**Thrush** · 31st January 2004

Ah yes me and another member of the forum was looking into Bluetooth kits for the English market... Now it's illegal to use your phone in the car without a hands free kit. Bluetooth car kits would be a brilliant thing to buy.... I am sure there is money to be made there... Bluetooth is extremely unpopular in Japan... Companies prefer other data transfer systems which are faster.... Sony doesn�t even put Bluetooth on their latest phones here... Good idea from Joey!

**QfanatiQ** · 5th February 2004

Thanks.

sorry to drag this up again, would there be any point in me getting PC parts there, Im thinking HD's and does anyone know the deal with customes? as i was also thinking a flat screen moniter is there a site or info somehwere on a (erm) site listings of quatities money wise.

Could try and copnvice is a poratbel light table, now theres an idea (i wont use)

Cheers.....Q

**Thrush** · 5th February 2004

I don't know what you want people to say.... The only way we can find out if things are cheaper in HK is by looking on the internet... A job I am sure you could do yourself.

Computer equipment is cheap in Japan... I got myself a 300GB Maxtor HDD for about 180 Quid. Customs see you with a suit case full of HDD they are not going to let you walk by without paying! Come on mate use your nogging. (head)

**QfanatiQ** · 5th February 2004

I am not simply going to get a load of HD's, i was asking about 1. TFT, and HD's in general. There is an upper limit on spending for all countries, for the US it used to be only �120 yet on the good old customes site they do not seem to have this info (not that i can find anyhow). There might have even been a customes worker here.

All i needed to know was a small fact like that about HD's, meaning i can take that little bit extra money when i go.

I certainly was not looking for others to search for me, but guessed with the types of people here and posts such things would be known straight off, i am often the first to say google it.

I have since got a reply elsewhere saying electrics are much cheaper there more expensive in the shops but better to get there than of the street, so now i can simply take extra spending for an HD at least.

Some of the exploration i tried to do was proving to be difficult for me to understand after i had installed the character fonts. I simply could not naviagte as i do not understand the language.

Thanks for your help, cheers.....Q