I took Kiana shopping for UGG boots yesterday. Real UGG boots are hard to find here, so we knew we would be looking at fake ones. And it is amazing how many we found!
The shopping area we went to was downtown. It is a multi-level building with one floor devoted to shoes. If you can picture the floor space of a small grocery store, filled with rows upon rows of 10ft x 10ft miniature stores. Each store is individually owned and is filled with shoes. I would estimate over 100 little shoe stores on this floor.
Since winter is blowing into Dalian (literally), each store had boots. Kiana was looking for a particular pair of UGGs - she needs black ones so she can wear them to the winter concert. I think she tried on at least 20 different boots in 15 different stores!
Some of the boots looked like real UGGs and others definitely were fake. The fake ones had some pretty funny names: UGC, UCG, VGG, LIGG. They ranged in price from $20 USD to $130 USD. The $130 ones were the only ones that actually might have been real UGGs.
She finally found a pair that fit (most were too big or small or too stiff in the soles). We paid $33 USD. (If you are in the US, I bet you are thinking - wow great deal! If you are in China, I bet you are thinking we paid way too much!)
Shoe shopping is much different here than in the US. The customer service is great! We had a lot of help to get just the right boot at each store. The women were all very kind and helpful. The funny part is that when we would say that they didn't fit or she didn't like them and go to leave, they would try to get us to stay by bargaining down the price. They thought we were faking that we didn't want them to get a lower price!
It was a fun day of shopping!
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