As a local, I just know this place from my foreigner friends. So out of curiosity, I visited there someday.

It’s located on “Shanghai science museum subway station”, when you go out of the station in B1 level, you’ll see many shops with English signs

They sell all kinds of things, especially clothes\watches\souvenirs\electrical products. 

I just have a look about a football jersey, it’s really normal, not with advanced texture. The owner charge me for 150 RMB(I just requested quote, haven’t bargain) even though he knows I’m local. And I think it worth 50 RMB

Then I walked in front of a shop with watches. For my opinion, these watches are totally rubbish, not even as good as toys, but they’re not replica. The price is around 150-300.

So I asked the owner if there’s any replica. The owner looks wary and ask me do I really want to buy ,how many and which type of watch I’m looking for.

Then he message to another guy, finally a lady came here to pick me up. We took the subway, and get off at Qipu Road Subway Station. 

On the road, she asked me a bunch of questions, she even asked me “are you an undercover police officer?”

She told me policemen have been checking this place very strictly recently, the business isn’t as good as before, they even don’t deal with Chinese in the past.

They can’t sell replica in fake market directly, it’s dangerous, so they lead guest to Qi Pu Road, which is in Puxi District, which mean if the policeman want to invest, they have to act across regions, which will be more troublesome.

When we arrived at Qi Pu Road, the lady handed me over to another lady, who is the owner of replica shop.

She lead me into a shop which is cover by curtain strictly, so people can find it open from outside.

She’s very wary, and put a lot of watches on the desk, she don’t answer men any question, keep asking me which one I want buy.

These products are far more better than what I see in first place, and better than replica I ever bought online.

But to be honest, I don’t think it’s the best quality for replica

Long story short, I choose one, she charge for 3000 RMB, saying “since you’re local, I don’t cheat you”

But I really don’t want to spend 3000 to buy this, since it’s still not the best quality I think. 

Finally we deal at the price of 700 RMB…

I have to admit her speak skills are very advanced. It is because I didn’t want to buy it so badly and I knew the quality of the product, otherwise I would probably buy it at a higher price easily.

I was a very interesting experience, I can’t imagine how much they can make as profit before Covid19….