How to buy souvenirs when traveling to Tibet at an affordable price?

1. Shopping on Bajiao Street: Remember one thing: ask for a price and don’t bargain. Ask more than one store for the item you like, and then go back to the one with the cheapest price and bargain with the seller for 10% of the quoted price. If it works, buy it, or leave if it doesn't work. At this time, most sellers won't agree. Turn around and leave. Some sellers will ask you to raise the price a little more. You can decide how much the price goes up depending on how much you like it. If you can accept it, just buy it. Just buy it if you like it.

2. Shopping at the National Mall: on Jokhang Temple Square Road. When you get here, walk around and find the specialty counter, which is a counter that only sells one or two items (for example: combs, this counter only sells combs and no other items)

This kind of counter belongs to When wholesale, generally don’t lie about prices, don’t cheat people, and don’t make counter-offers. If you buy one or two pieces, they will be sold to you, and if you buy 100 pieces, there will be no counter-offer. More realistic.

3. Shopping at scenic spots outside the city: Be most careful with this, as it is easy to get scammed, such as the fossils and stone items on Mount Everest. It's not sold elsewhere, but it's sold here, but the price is very high. If you don't lower the price, you like it, but you get cheated if you buy it on impulse. . .

4. Tips:

1) Two methods of counteroffering: remove zero and divide by 4 (for example: 158 yuan, remove 58, 100 divided by 4 = 25 yuan)

10% of the asking price (for example, 100, 10% = 10 yuan)

Don’t be embarrassed, you will be ripped off if you want face. . . Haha, the words are a bit rough

2) Choose the shopping category: Except for thangkas, Tibetan knives, bone (horn) products, Tibetan incense, Tibetan medicine, fossils (just fossils), other items (especially small items) handicrafts) all enter Tibet from the mainland (Yiwu), India, and Nepal

. Just buy the exotic items. It’s really sad to buy back Yiwu’s small commodities.

3) Two items are worth mentioning here: turquoise and Tibetan carpets

Turquoise is mostly fake and is usually dyed from cement. Among them, the ones worth tens of yuan per gram should be genuine, but I am not 100% sure. We are all ordinary people, not geological tiles or antique tiles, so it is recommended to be cautious before buying.

Tibetan rugs are highly priced, and the authenticity is unclear. It is recommended to be cautious before buying.

4) It is recommended to buy thangkas, buy them back to the mainland and hang them at home, which will attract the attention of guests.

There is a thangka shop with a yellow plaque on Bajiao Street. I forgot its name. It is said to be the first thangka shop in Tibet. After visiting other thangka shops, you will find that this one has the best workmanship. .

Remember to make a counter-offer. The price was 2,000 for one piece, and I counter-offered to 1,200 for two pieces.

The above are all personal experiences. If there is anything wrong, please comment.