Try to buy a branded jeans, shoe whatever here in a street shop. Super expensive. Taobao? How much is fake? How can you know that it is fake? Buy from an expens

Try to buy a branded jeans, shoe whatever here in a street shop. Super expensive. Taobao? How much is fake? How can you know that it is fake? Buy from an expensive seller and hope it is not fake? Try to buy DocMartens, Caterpillar, whatever shoes. They should be cheaper since they are produced here. Good luck. Okay, you can buy cheap and fake, for example in the "Silk Road" department store in Beijing. I think it is impossible to buy a genuine item there. A fake Armani jeans cost you 100 RMB, now it is more like 160 RMB. Branded underwear 10 RMB. But the quality is very poor. No comparison to the US. And if you buy in outlets in the US or EU then their prices are unbeatable. EU has about 20% sales tax that you can get full or at least 50% reimbursed as a non resident. IT? It is not really cheaper, no guarantee (2 years in the EU!). Many stuff may be relabled, refurbished, defect or of poorer quality, even for the same brand. Where to buy? Who to trust? Newegg has now a shop in China. If I were to buy my stuff here this would be the place that I would try. I just checked a Seagate 8 TB HDD. Is was 262 USD (Newegg CN) vs. 249 USD (Newegg US). I bought a smoothie mixer in a Chinese warehouse. 32 Dollars was the cheapest option. In the US I bought one for 10 Dollars (okay, long time ago). I am sure you can order a cheap one on Taobao, but it gives you an idea. Also, you may have realized that some super cheap Chinese sites like DealExtreme (DX) are Chinese, but don't offer shipment to China (at least the last time I checked).