In the first halls of the hangzhou high-end hotels, almost all have one or two, or even 78, jewellery and jade shops and high-end crafts. According to industry sources, there is a veritable sales trap inside these jewels。
$1,100 for the black-haired woman
On the evening of 27 april, the journalists' covert visit began with one of the only three five-star hotels in hangzhou, the grand five. In the hotel, dragon po-sai won three picturing picturings. The edibles are not priced. Recently, an oral offer was made: “little girl, this is red light manau, good, just $1,200. The three are the same price."
"didn't your outside sign write 20% off? Is that a price or no discount?" i pointed to the ads in front of the store and started cutting prices。
"do you want to see what's good and bad," said the shopkeepers, "well, how about $100 less, $1,100 less?"
“doesn’t it have to be less?” the shopkeeper ate the price at a minimum and began to keep me down: “you're not going abroad, are you
350 won for the old whitehead
I don't know the price. We got an expert。
It was not expected that the same “euphoria” had arrived in front of the prodigy and that the “never lower” offer had automatically dropped by two thirds。
Old hair is white and is a senior engineer in local jewellery identification. After looking at a few commodities, he also picked up manau elephants and asked where he was from in hangzhou, where he worked and then asked for the price. The employee immediately announced a very different price: "the leftmost elephant is 350 and the rightmost 400."
$1,100 and $350. The same unpriced “manau” elephant, in the presence of the young me and the white-haired old zhang, had several times the difference between the “floor price” and the look of the hotel jeweller。
The sale of jewels in hotels and hotels does not generally indicate the material, origin, etc. Of the product, or even the names “emprete”, “manau”, and there is only one price label in the packaging of the product。
Days and days are "new opening" and "cut-off."
We turned to the lake of the west lake hotel, an old four-star hotel with a shop called “one heart” on the first floor in the lobby, with a bet on the shelf for $7,000. I just showed some concern, and the shopkeeper immediately took the initiative to say, "twenty cents for you, or two thousand dollars, not even three cents, is cheap." he explained that the reason for the discount was “the opening of a new shop” and asked when it would open, and said, “it's only a month, so there's a special 30% discount”
The other one, xinjiang white jade, is priced at $6,000, and the shopkeeper is better off, at a discount of $800. He also offered to buy the two commodities together for $2680 because of the new opening。
Under the “one-month discount” plus “preferentials”, the final total price of these two commodities is tempting to be less than half the price of the original single item。
After that, i learned from the owner of ray's shop at the lake hotel that “one mind” had been operating at the hotel for three or four years, that it had been reduced to a year ago, that it was located near the elevator gate and that the owner had not changed。
Dragonbao sai of the grand five hotels has a brand: “for the new and old clients, the twenties will be paid from 14 february to 1 may”
Will the original price be restored after 5-1? The boss is busy saying, "it'll be a discount. We won't stop at a discount. It's a 20% discount. It's a one-off discount."
It has been investigated that in many hotel jewellery shops, the priced goods have various reasons to beat the discounts and compare them with the original price, often at a “concessional” level that you cannot imagine. In order to make customers feel that “opportunities cannot be lost”, businesses also give reasons for their “special offers”。
In order to get us out of this phase, we expect you to call our 24-hour hotline, 13957109111, to tell you about the pitfalls you have encountered; we would like to know more about the insiders coming forward to give us the clues, and we will give you a $200 000 reward on behalf of the consumer。
Findings: all counterfeits
The hangzhou city authority for quality technology subsequently carried out inspections of jewellery and crafts dealers in hotels。
There's been a lot of problems at the dragon posai craft at the grand hotel. According to an on-site test conducted by experts at the hangzhou quality monitoring and inspection institute, it was initially determined that all of the jade products sold at the yongbao zai counter had been processed manually and that there were no labels except for price tags, and that the offers were in the range of $5,000。
The owner repeatedly claimed that the products were sold at a discount of 20 per cent, but the jewellery expert stated that it would cost about a thousand dollars at the price of the artificial jade, which would exceed the actual value by dozens of times。
Apart from jade instruments, there are also a large number of jade and stone sculptures in these crafts, which are rarely priced less than tens of thousands of dollars, such as the chicken blood stone sculptures in the "rombozai", which are priced at $280,000, but the quality examiners can see at first sight that "there is no such red chicken blood stone that is dyed."
An unknown jade shop in the lobby of the lake hotel does not appear to have any name tags inside or outside the shop, but a billboard at the door for a “high price for the jade instrument” is absolutely interesting and, to some extent, it does not appear to be very different from many ordinary jade shops on the wushan road if it is not in a star hotel like the lake。
The counter is full of all kinds of jade in burma, with small pieces of jade and bracelets at thousands of dollars。
The following points were made by the experts concerned at the centre for monitoring jewellery and topstone at the hangzhou technical monitoring centre:
“this is a very common dyed platinum, which is worth dozens of dollars, and can be bought up to $100 in the usual flower market.”
Another piece of so-called myanmar jade, the actual composition of which is ordinary manau, is 18,000 miles away from the jade, and the jewellery expert's test indicates that it is purely an emerald, up to $1,200, at a price of $5,880。
There is also a 4580-dollar myanmar jade bracelet, which has been identified as a dyed stone, which is very common, and which is worth dozens of dollars。
In this “unnamed store” at the lake hotel, the examiners seized a total of more than a dozen items of jade products. As to the authenticity of other artefacts in the store, the examiners indicated that since there are no clear restrictions on the price of handicrafts at present, which are the subject of an agreement between the seller and the buyer, the pricing and material aspects of these artefacts are not subject to prosecution for the time being, but the goods bearing the name of the product must be colored, otherwise they are fraudulent consumers。
Liners reveal business secrets
The jewellery dealers in the hotels are operating in many different ways from the jewellery cabinets and specialized jewellery stores in the department stores. A senior jewellery dealer in hangzhou has analyzed the insides of the operation:
I. Why is there much more handicrafts than accessories? It was found that in hotel jewellery shops, most of the shelves were made of emeralds used for embroidery, with little bracelets, necklaces, etc。
Analysis: unlike conventional accessories, the price increases in handicrafts are due to their build-up, sculptors, etc., and the price differentials in craft products of the same quality are often due to differences in sculptors, making it impossible for industry and management to formulate appropriate price standards. This makes the price of handicrafts more likely to be watered than the jewellery. The main consumer group at the hotel jewellery store is tourists, who often shop with a mind to buy souvenirs and are not very good. Businesses have a chance to open prices。
2. Why do you prefer a discount to a higher price? It was found that in hotel jewellery shops, many businesses tend to offer less than a discount, but are reluctant to lower or lower prices to attract customers。
Analysis: tourists are their main consumer group, and the important force that guides the consumption of such visitors in the field or abroad comes from guided tours. Higher prices facilitate the cooperation of shopkeepers with tour guides. Controlling actual sales prices. In accordance with industry practice, a minimum of 30 per cent kickback for tour guides is paid by shopkeepers. With high prices, shopkeepers are able to act in a way that keeps the usual price at a rate of one or two discounts at 60 or 70 per cent, which is in fact a price increase at any time。
Iii. Why is manau and aingtayu the most common commodities in such shops
It was found that these two types of goods were absolute protagonists in many hotels and jewellery stores in hangzhou, and that other goods tended to be mere companions。
Analysis: many of the “natural manau” commodities sold are actually synthetic manau. Especially in big sculptures. Even experts are able to discern the truth only under the infrared spectrum. The difference between fake manau and janao tends to be dozens more. The vast profit space makes manau the owner of such shops。
Although it is not easy to fake, aingda is much less costly than the variety of emeralds, xinjiang and soft jade, and depends mainly on sculptors. The vague price criteria make it a pet of the hotel jewelry store。
The hotel has been open for over a year
According to the examiners, the two units had the guts, especially the lake hotel, where the fake jade device was sold on the counter, and the entire hotel had no official to say anything about it。
It is very doubtful that the lake hotel management indicated that the identity of the jade shop was not clear, nor when it had entered the hotel. According to a chief of the commodities department at the lake hotel, most of the stores on the first floor were managed by the ministry of commodities, but the jade shop was run directly by a senior official of the hotel, who had appeared to have arrived for more than a year and who had happened to be in australia, so no one throughout the hotel was aware of the situation。
Similarly, at the time of the inspection, the “lomboza” at the grand five hotel, whether it was the owner or the hotel, appeared to have no knowledge. The manager of the hotel said that he had just been transferred from beijing and that the situation was not familiar; the director of the hotel was vague enough to explain it。
In order to get us out of this phase, we expect you to call our 24-hour hotline, 13957109111, to tell you about the pitfalls you have encountered; we would like to know more about the insiders coming forward to give us the clues, and we will give you a $200 000 reward on behalf of the consumer。
