Going to Hong Kong (1 Viewer)

[ezzy85]

Im going overseas soon and will be stopping off at Hong Kong for a night. Any of you know some places to get cheap computer stuff, games, movies etc.. or did they get rid of the whole piracy thing?
Thanks

 

[jm1234567890]

no point, you can't get anything you want here.

Hardware isn't much cheeper there, and i don't think the hassle for wrapping a protecting it is worth it.

However, consumer electronics (such as Mp3 player) are cheeper.

china is only cracking down on piracy in beijing, due to olympics

 

[Winston]

alot of computer products of electronics is extremely cheap in hong kong and china, but there are alot of fakeys, and if u want legit cheap stuff you really need to know where your looking, if you dont have anyone who knows good places, dont bother, or else you'll get yourself something faulty, most chinese over there are conniving people, but what can i say unemployment rate is high, and the economy doesn't look good now. My mum told me one her friends went over to china recently and they had yum-cha everyday because it was so cheap, like 4 people it cost them 7 bucks, now that's chinese dollars!!!

 

[Newbie]

Celebrity Commercial Centre
64 Castle Peak Rd
Sham Shui Po
Kowloon
Hong Kong

Eastern Harbour Centre
28 Hoi Chak Street
Quarry Bay
Hong Kong

im just copying my old warranty cards when i got a comp from HK
no guarantees if they are still there

 

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haha, going back to HK..

get a mask first..haha

 

[Newbie]

its safe there now!

 

[...]

as if!!

the other day they had this guy having signs of SARS!!

 

[Newbie]

heh
maybe

but i would risk anything to get to those cheap bargains haahaha

 

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haha..same..

but meh! got no money..oh well..i might get SARS purposely and come back to australia and be the first aust. to get SARS! how mad is that! i'll be on national TV and newspaper front page!

 

[sunny]

And you'll only have a 98% chance of survival.

Golden Building Shopping Centre
146-152 Fuk Wah St,
Sham Shui Po, Kowloon

Thats a whole shopping centre filled with computer stores. You're bound to find something there.

 

[Winston]

But becareful the ppl there arent stupid they do know how to trick customers lol.. im not kidding chinkys are evil! (eep im one myself) ...

 

[Newbie]

another good thing is that you can bargain
the price tag of something in hong kong is at least 30% above the price the shop is willing to sell at

 

[:: ck ::]

sham shui po station - golden center

or go to tsuen wan shopping arcade the top level is pirate games

visit the harbour its far more beatiful view than buying games from stinky old fobs

 

[psycho_mushy]

1 word of warning:

if u go to hongkong and buy pirated stuff... if u get caught in the act of purchasing by customs or anything..... ur toast...

 

[5c]

Originally posted by psycho_mushy
1 word of warning:

if u go to hongkong and buy pirated stuff... if u get caught in the act of purchasing by customs or anything..... ur toast...

r u serious??
wow
wat do they do to u??
arrest/ fine/ or even jail?
luckily neva happened to meee b4

 

[psycho_mushy]

it happens.... its like law...

I wanted to buy a cd but had second thoughts... have and hour later went back to finally wanting to buy it.. the shops are all closed....

so yeah.. don't bet ur arse on it...piracy is risky shit nowadays in hong kong...

oh they also got some new way of buying pirated goods... its too long to explain now...

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Winston
But becareful the ppl there arent stupid they do know how to trick customers lol.. im not kidding chinkys are evil! (eep im one myself) ...

lolz, reminds me of flemington markets.
but then again most fobs, are shifty.

Originally posted by 5c
r u serious??
wow
wat do they do to u??
arrest/ fine/ or even jail?
luckily neva happened to meee b4

well just talking generally- isn't it like max. $50 000 fine for the individual caught with using pirated stuff?? so yeah, it mite b risky.

 

[Winston]

hahaha yeah the 10$ 3 VCD's little trolleys on the street ...

 

[Newbie]

if you get caught its 1k per cd
but like
you gotta be pretty stupid to get caught

 

[:: ck ::]

do what i do

get a spindle

shove all ur pirate shit in there

get RID OF THE CASES

u cant get caught coz u can say its just blank stuff