In Reply to: Hi posted by RB2 on Thursday, 27. January 2005 at 15:41 Bali Time:
1. Make sure you bargain for things and don't always feel sorry for them. On the first day I really felt sorry for them and totally got ripped off. Of course you can feel a little sorry for them but part of the game is to bargain for things.
2. Make sure you shop around. Don't buy everything on the first day. Have a look around and then go back and get what you want. We bought alot of things way to early and didn't shop around enough. The best thing is to make a list of what you want to buy.
3. Don't let everybody on the beach convince you to go into their shop. Once you go into one, everybody else wants you to go into theirs. We got convinced to go into alot of shops we didn't want to go into.
4. Be careful with wood products. My family almost lost all of theirs through customs coming back into Australia. Especially the wood mats.
The biggest thing I learnt was to relax and enjoy myself and to say the words NO THANK YOU.