There's two prices here in India for absolutely everything. There's the foreign tourist price and there's the local Indian price.
So I'm here today with Priyanka.
We are going to show you the difference in prices between a foreigner and a local Indian and we'll give you some tips on
how to decrease the price, how to get a better price and then let's ask these guys why are you charging foreigners more?
New Delhi Station? How much? Auto Driver: 80 rupees.
Yeah, Railway Station, New Delhi. How much? Auto Driver: 80 rupees. Karl: 80 rupees?
Brother, New Delhi Railway Station, how much? Auto Driver: 100 rupees Sir. Karl: 100 rupees?
Hi, New Delhi Railway Station. How much? Auto Driver: 100. Karl: 100?
Railway Station, how much? Auto Driver: 100 rupees.
100 rupees, it's so expensive!
No, it's too expensive. Auto Driver: Give 80, give 50. Karl: No.
How much? Auto Driver: 150. Karl: 150?! Wow.
New Delhi Railway Station? Auto Driver: Yes, 100 rupees.
100 rupees, expensive, isn't it? Yeah, it's expensive.
Auto Driver: Hey, he's joking, not 100.
It's only two kilometres. Auto Driver: I know it's two kilometres but he will charge 80 rupees.
Karl: 80 rupees, hmm? Auto Driver: 80 rupees is fair charge Sir.
Uh no no, I don't believe you. Auto Driver: Please, the meter is right, it's fair.
I will drop you by meter, okay?
So basically, its a hundred percent markup for foreigners when it comes to rickshaws and you saw the power of
just walking away from these guys and how they drop the price to
the local price because they weren't busy, right? And, you can see this more and learn more about
these guys and how to bargain with these rickshaw and taxi drivers in another video I've done.
I'll put a link to it in the description. Now, I got to go and find Priyanka. I lost her, she's in the market.
We're gonna go and check out the price differences in like things like handicrafts, shawls, pashminas,
little boxes, these kind of things. And how nice was that guy who after I gave him a little banter in Hindi,
he said he would use the meter. This is absolutely unheard of here in Delhi.
It just doesn't happen especially for foreigners.
So, I really appreciated him coming down and being honest like that. And, actually the meter rate should have been about 35 rupees.
They just increased it recently but it's a bit too low and unfair so if you can get the local rate,
usually I'll pay like another ten or twenty rupees over there and just as as a tip.
But, you don't have to. It's fair because you're already charging locals over the meter rate anyway.
Brother, chillum? Karl: Chillum, I don't smoke man. Vendor: You can gift it to someone.
Do I look like I smoke? Do I look like I get high? Vendor: No Sir.
Then, why are you trying to sell me chillum?
A lot of people say I look like a drug dealer, a lot of people say this. Vendor: No sir.
It's okay, let it be.
It's okay, some people say I look like I'm PewDiePie on crack. Vendor: No, sir. Karl: Some people say, it's okay, it's a joke. Bye.
Vendor: Have a nice day sir! Karl: You too.
Hi there, well this is nice, really nice.How much is this for? Vendor: One thousand two hundred.
1200! Vendor: All handmade Sir, wood work.
I need something for my girlfriend. Vendor: Bag?
Yeah, handbag for my girlfriend, which colour is good? Vendor: All are good colours. Take this, different and antique colour.
No, she likes silver. You have silver?
Yeah, how much is this one? Vendor: 1800. Karl: 1800! It's a good price aye.
You're buying a good one, how many pieces? One, two?
One piece, I only have one girlfriend man. How many girlfriends do you have?
1500! Vendor: 300 rupees discount.
This is too expensive. I think local price is 850. Vendor: 1200, okay? Karl: Oh, I don't think so.
Hey, I'm going into one of these stores and get a price for a little wooden box. Okay?
Okay, I'll follow him behind you but they won't know that I'm with you. Okay?
How much is this? Shopkeeper: This is for 750. Karl: 750, okay good price. Thank you.
We got quoted some pretty crazy prices, but I was surprised to find so many fixed-price stores here.
And not every store was charging me more actually.
It was more the street vendors, the guys sitting on the street who were taking advantage of foreigners and the rickshaw drivers but actually
you can't really call it taking advantage and I know some people will call it racism charging a foreigner more, but it's not that.
It's just the bargaining culture here in India. This is how things work.
So, their goal is to extract as much money from their client or the customer
as possible and it's our job to bring that price down in the bargaining culture, right? So they see a foreigner,
they know they can get more money from that foreigner
and yeah, they're evaluating every single customer that comes their way. If they see an Indian as an NRI, as a foreign Indian
they know these signs as well. So they will charge a foreign Indian the same price as a foreigner as well.
So yeah, now so some tips so you can bargain to get good prices. The key is to walk away.
Don't be afraid to walk away, the minute you start walking away
the minute the price starts dropping because there's so much competition
in these markets and they know that they lose a sale as soon as you go and they know you're not coming back.
So yeah, don't be afraid to walk away. The price can drop by as much as 50%!
And then secondly, you need to kind of know
around what price the item you want to buy is. Then you have a point to bargain from, right?
So ask the person at your hotel, ask one of your friends here in India,
what should I pay for this shawl or what should I pay for this little box,
like a wooden box or something?
And yeah, then you've got a point of reference to bargain from as well. Using these two tactics
you will get the best price here in India. Maybe not the same price as a local, but you'll get it down, okay?
Now you guys might have seen Priyanka before, right? It's because she's a Youtuber as well.
So tell us about your channel? Priyanka: So my channel's name is DesiGirl Traveller and I make more of shopping and travel Vlogs.
So if you want more tips and tricks to shop in the markets of Delhi,
my channel is the place to be!
Yes, that's absolutely right. And, I want you to leave some love for her in the comments below, okay?
And if you go to her channel now, there's a video of us going to Sarojini Nagar market. We're gonna go shopping.
It's a really popular market. It may be the most popular market in Delhi, yeah?
Yeah, it's a very popular market and in fact the most favourite market of girls but
I'm going to take Karl there and do some shopping with him. Let's see what we find there for him.
I've never been there, I really wanna go. Priyanka: Yeah, you're going to love it! Karl: Yeah, let's do it.
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