After I had checked in to the hotel, I took a 10 mins walk down to the PLATINUM with the help of a map...
While walking, I came across two crafting shops... Very old and run down crafting shops that were selling mostly buttons, threads & also yarns... I had problem communicating with the shop's assistants as they don't really speak English... :( They were selling mostly local yarns and were very cheap!! One ball of acrylic 50g yarn cost from S$.80 to S$1.20! But the quality of the yarns was very bad! It's something like ORION yarn... I only bought a few to show to my crafting friends...
Finally, I reached Platinum!!! GOSH!! HUGE Shopping Complex with 7 floors of shops!!!
Shopping in Platinum was an experience! They were selling almost everything, from t-shirt to dress, office wear to shoes, accessories to bags & etc, etc, etc....
Whenever I asked: "How much"...
The shop-keeper would say "XXX bahts"....
Then I would frowned and asked: "Cheaper?"
Followed by her saying, "How many you want? If you buy many many, then I give your YYY bahts"
"But I only want to buy one"
She would think for awhile and offered, "for you special, at ZZZ bahts"....
But I would bargain for a bit more, knowing the whole-sell price was YYY bahts. So, I'll tell them that I wanted to bring sample back and if my buyers like, I'll buy more... Normally, they would ask a little bit higher than whole-sell but definitely lower than retail pricing.... Done deal....
I prefer bargaining @ shopping ctr than market... Cos, at the market, they would start with a ridiculous price and lowered down to a bargain price... My bargaining power is very bad and I don't like to be offended or offend them either... So, normally I would not ask unless I wanted to buy...
Shops in the Platinum....
Shop that sells T-shirts in a container...
Shop that sells phone charms such as Voodo Dolls....
Shop that sells beads supply
Shop that sells accessories
However, this shopping centre closed @ 7pm.... I started my shopping spree @ 2pm and barely covered 5 floors!! Each floor has over 100 units of shops.... I saw a lot of youngsters & some S'poreans dragging huge canvas bags to fill up supplies!
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