While shopping

• Be careful with your bag and valuables while shopping in a crowded area.
• Before buying, be careful of strangers that come to befriend you and introduce various offers, and end to go to buy goods; in particular jewelery shops and tailors, because you might be deceived.
• Before buying , check the goods and compare various prices; maybe you can bargain for a better price.
• After buying and before leaving the shop, check that the goods are the same that you bought. Some shops do not exchange or give refunds, and make sure you keep the receipts.
• In the case that you have the shop send you the goods by mail, make them give you the receipt for sending the goods, so that you can be certain that there is actual mailing service.
• Before buying some kinds of goods; for example, antiques and wildlife products, it may be necessary to those goods can leave Thailand and/or enter your country. With regard to leaving Thailand, please check with the shop or the related agency; for example, the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Customs.
• Always use common sense.