How to prevent the tourist shopping trap?

First of all, be familiar with the local situation.

Before traveling, go to Baidu to find out what local products are, which are unique to the local area, the approximate price, how to distinguish between true and false, and whether there are any complaints from tourists. Make a good travel and shopping plan.

Second, control your temporary desires.

When traveling, scenic spots usually have tour guides or shopping guides to promote some items. Their eloquence is generally good and arrogant. This is to control your desires. No plans. There is no need to buy anything that can cure all diseases and ward off evil spirits.

Third, regular supermarket shopping.

Traveling to a place usually brings some local products home to send relatives and friends, try to choose the supermarket in the city and avoid buying things near the scenic spot.

I think doing these three things should avoid some shopping traps! Personal opinion!

Traveling abroad is nothing more than eating, living, traveling, playing and shopping. There are traps in every link, but shopping is more prominent, more expensive and more gullible. I think to avoid this trap as much as possible, we should pay attention to the following aspects:

1, set a principle for your own travel, don't buy anything, and it's best to entrust people around you to supervise yourself.

Tell me about my previous trip. When children go out to play when they are young, they will buy some interesting things, such as inflatable toys or things they have never seen before. Finally, the luggage could not be put down at all, but unfortunately it could not be brought back. Even if they put them in luggage, dragging them is a burden. After several times, they made it a rule that they would not buy anything when traveling, unless there was a shortage at home. This rule has persisted for many years. I seldom buy things when I travel, and now goods are in circulation.

2. Evaluate whether it is really necessary, and remember not to be greedy and cheap.

As the saying goes, it is better to buy than to sell. Remember that this is an eternal truth. The consignee must know a lot more about a commodity than the buyer, and they have even studied how to sell it, so don't buy it just because it is cheap, but carefully look at the quality and compare it horizontally and vertically.

3. Choose a group tour carefully. When signing the contract, we should talk about the shopping conditions. When signing the contract, we should pay special attention to the low-priced group. Although you are determined not to go out shopping, it is easy to break your own rules in an environment where everyone is shopping. After all, you are ordinary people.

4. Be cautious about special products. Every place has its own specialties, many of which looked good at the time, but they are often abandoned when they come back.

In short, we should make practical choices and try not to buy less.

Let's talk about what a tourist shopping trap is. Generally speaking, it refers to being induced or misled in the process of traveling and buying cheap goods and fakes at high prices. At present, this trap is mainly common in low-cost tour groups.

There is a major problem: trap! In other words, if you are unprepared and don't deliberately avoid it, you will fall into this shopping trap. In fact, at present, shopping traps not only exist in organized tour groups, but also easily fall into when individuals go out. The main reason for this incident is that tourists lack awareness of prevention.

Going out with a cheap tour group is easy to fall into a shopping trap. Because it is cheap, it is necessary to make up for the lack of tourism price through shopping profit. Organizers attract cheap tourists to sign up through low prices, and then increase shopping stores during the tour to sell some goods that are extremely inconsistent with the price at high prices, so as to achieve the purpose of making profits, especially for some tour groups that are far below the normal price or obviously not enough for travel costs, such as a one-yuan six-day trip to Yunnan; Beijing four-day tour of 80 yuan; This kind of unimaginable low-cost tour group, once it participates, will inevitably fall into the shopping trap.

Therefore, if you choose a tour group to avoid falling into the tourist trap, you can't choose ultra-low-priced products, but choose a pure play group with higher prices and no shopping and no self-funded projects recommended by tour guides.

Why is it called a pure play group? Because many tourism products seem to say "pure play", in fact, they hide the items recommended by tour guides at their own expense. It is basically not difficult for a high-level tour guide to push a point, and the profit of this point is very good. The cost price of tens of dollars may attract tourists 100 or more.

If you travel alone, you should mainly avoid buying some very expensive things, such as expensive tonics, medicinal materials, jade, antiques, jewelry and so on. These items are expensive and easy to counterfeit. Even if you think you know a lot, you are not far from falling into the trap. Then try not to buy things sold in scenic spots, such as air-dried meat bought in scenic spots. Seventy or eighty yuan a catty can't be real beef at all. If you want to buy something, you should go to the local large supermarket to effectively avoid the shopping trap.

This is a very good question. According to my experience of successfully avoiding all kinds of big pits and small pits for so many years, I summarize:

You know, there's no pie in the sky. If you want to drop it, you will only fall into the trap. So don't trust all the 299 yuan Hainan tours and 599 yuan Hong Kong and Macao tours.

When you see these advertisements for low-cost tours, you can first calculate an account in your mind: how much is the round trip, how much is the accommodation, and how much is the ticket. If these add up to far more than the tour fee, you will understand everything. After all, people are not charities!

Every tour guide is a successful speaker and psychologist, so we must keep a clear head. Seeing others scrambling to pay, I must think calmly. Is this really what I need? Will the price and quality be tricky?

It is said that Yunnan has the darkest tourism and the most pits. I have been there twice and have a deep understanding. The first time I joined a group was six or seven years ago, from Kunming, then Dali, Lijiang, and finally Xishuangbanna, I went to various jewelry stores along the way ... Jewelry prices are also falling, Kunming is the most expensive and Xishuangbanna is the cheapest. So I really admire the tour guide, and I firmly grasp the hearts of tourists. What if the last one is expensive? Make up the position, make up all the way, so it was finally properly locked up. ...

If you really need to join a group, then follow the shopping group. It's not very safe. Some shopping groups do have a shopping process, but the situation will be much better.

We can prevent travel and shopping like this:

1, find all kinds of excuses for the tour guide to let you enter the store, don't show interest in the goods, or you will be constantly persuaded to leave. As long as you show no interest in goods, it is an effective countermeasure for a very effective person to stand firm. If all members are not interested, they can make suggestions to the tour guide;

If you are interested in shopping, but the price of the shop led by the tour guide is extremely expensive, you might as well go and have a look again. If you are in a hurry to make a decision, you are likely to fall into the pit. As the saying goes, "you get what you pay for", you can't just look at the superficial price when choosing tourism products. We should understand the value of a tourism product through six elements: food, shelter, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment. The more detailed we know, the more secure our own interests will be.

When buying expensive items, you must keep the evidence and receipt. "Because most tourism disputes occur in other places, it increases the cost of safeguarding tourists' rights, but this does not mean that there are no channels for safeguarding rights. "Industry insiders said that tourists can keep the evidence and complain to the industry and commerce department or the tourism management department afterwards. Tourism contract is an important basis for safeguarding rights.

4. Local tourism bureaus have regulations on tourism and shopping. For example, the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Bureau clearly stipulates that shopping should not exceed once a day, and each shopping should not exceed 40 minutes. You can read more raiders, learn some relevant knowledge and deal with unexpected situations in your travel. In this case, you can force the tour guide not to violate the regulations, otherwise you have the right to complain;

6. Travel contracts are very tricky. Few travel agencies take the initiative to sign contracts with tourists. Even if you sign a contract, you will play tricks in the text if you are not careful. In many complaints about travel agencies, the liability of travel agencies for breach of contract is blank, but the responsibility is pushed to consumers.

Remember that what you buy will never be sold. When you see what you sell, you will first see a lot of spit on the Internet. Wake up in time and don't be brainwashed by them.

For those who travel for the first time, it is inevitable to be fooled. \ r \ r \ For example, when I first traveled, I felt fresh and curious about everything outside. I didn't know about travel agencies and scenic spots before, and I didn't have any awareness of prevention. We went to Hong Kong, Macau and other six places, and the tour fee was only 1980 yuan. Especially when I shop in Hongkong, I don't need a tour guide to say that I buy a lot of things, and the round-trip cost is 1.2 yuan. \ r \ r \ Let's take a trip to Yunnan this time. We are a self-help tour and made a general guide in advance. As a result, some trips were delayed because of the short time. That night, we went to a restaurant to eat, and we all knew the price of the dishes on the menu, so there was no price of extra dishes on the menu, and neither was the rice we ate. We didn't ask. When checking out after meals, the price of a bowl of rice 12 yuan, with additional dishes, is several yuan higher than that of other similar dishes. I was instantly alert, and this must have been cheated again. \ r \ r \ At noon the next day, we finished eating in a restaurant, ordered a vegetarian tofu of 10 yuan, and later added a vegetarian soup, but didn't ask the price. As a result, we settled the bill after dinner, and the boss said vegetarian soup 15 yuan. Obviously, they are both vegetarian dishes. Why is 5 yuan soup expensive? My brain is really broken. Why didn't I ask the price first? I was cheated again! \ r \ r \ rWe went to a hotel that night. 98 yuan is very cheap, so we have to look at the room first. When I went to the first room, I saw many traces of water leakage on the ceiling, which looked dirty. I decisively changed to another room and watched it again. This room is ok, there is no trace of water leakage, and it is clean. There is a wall in the bathroom that is not soundproof and is separated by boards. Hey! At this price, as long as the bedroom is clean, watertight and soundproof. It has been a long day. \r\r \ rSo My profound lesson is that every penny you spend and everything you buy, you must know the price in advance to avoid being cheated, otherwise there will be traps everywhere and you will be cheated at any time. \ r \ r \ When signing up for a tour group, you must read the details of the contract carefully and study it carefully. You'd better film the contract and study it carefully, and sign it if you think it's ok, so that you won't be fooled. Research content: Look at what the self-funded items are, whether they include scenic spot tickets, sightseeing tickets and ropeway tickets, which morning, noon and evening shopping shops are included, how long it takes to shop, whether it is compulsory shopping, whether it will delay too much time for sightseeing in scenic spots, what unreasonable requirements are there, how much will it cost, and roughly estimate whether you can accept them and whether your requirements can be put forward to the tour group, which will be acceptable to both parties. Whether the tour fee can be reduced or exempted, and whether the self-funded items can be free on the way, you must write your own requirements in the contract. You must be clear and definite, and you must travel with maximum economic benefits before you decide to sign up, so that you won't be fooled. \ r \ r \ There are many pitfalls in traveling with a group. The same group has several prices, some are cheap, some are expensive, and the travel distance and service are the same. There are also traps in self-funded projects of scenic spots on the way. They didn't say that they should pay their own expenses in advance, only that there are self-funded projects in the scenic spots. Shopping in the mall did not say compulsory consumption in advance. When you get to the mall, the tour guide follows your ass and asks you to buy this and that, saying that the tour guide has no job to eat and asks you to buy it. If you had to be cheeky, you wouldn't buy it. If you don't say anything beforehand, you will never do it. You must make up your mind. \ r \ r \ r rYou really can't accept a trip. It is said that it is free, relaxed and relaxed to go out. As a result, it was depressing and heartbreaking. Let's just say it's better than never going out. The society is complex, people's hearts are unpredictable and hard to prevent. We must be vigilant! Just get used to it! Generally speaking, freedom is much better.

Everything cheap is a trap.