We're just gonna cross the water now behind me. We're gonna go across to the Gold Souq and I'll just tell you what's happening there.
So this boat costs 1 dirham and it takes you all the way across...the water here...so you can get b/w the different souqs or different markets here in Dubai.
Anyway. I was gonna say I'm here at the gold souq now...the gold market. And, there's one scam happening here...
And it's very difficult to know...so...if you trust one of these guys on the street.
A guy's gonna talk me in one second. If you trust any one like these guys and they take you to a gold store...
You could be getting fake gold.
They'll show you the real gold. And then when they go to bag it and wrap it, they will just replace it with something fake.
And as you're a tourist, probably going home in the next few days, you're just finishing off all your money here at the gold souq.
And they know that. So they switch the gold out. They wrap it up. They give it to you. And you don't find out until you get home that...
It's fake gold. Maybe, you don't even find out.
So never trust these guys on the street here. Can't trust them.
You have to go and buy at a reputable store.
And these guys will always take you down these little side streets. They'll take you away from the main market here.
And they'll take you to some small little place...you know...a few roads back.
That's how you know something's not right.
When you come to Dubai, when you come to any other souqs, don't trust anybody on the street.
There's a lot of people here who are trying to make their living by ripping off tourists.
So how can you avoid buying fake gold from scammers like these? Well, it's difficult.
There's no foolproof test you can do to check the purity of the gold you're buying.
There's a few tests that you can do to check that you're not just buying gold plated jewellery and I'll link to them in the description.
But the best thing you can do is shop at a reputable store that has good reviews as well.
That is as good as you can do without having another jeweller test the purity of what you're buying.