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Georgi Jewellery International
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One review for Georgi Jewellery International
1 review in English
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Review from Marc D.
Vancouver, BC
5/20/2009
* Tourist shops do serve a purpose *
Ok, so imagine you are visiting some people overseas and want to bring some good Canadian maple syrup. Used to be you would simply go to the market, pick up a bottle, bring it in your carry-on and all set - nice Canadian flavoured gift which is easy to pick up quickly in the neighbourhood market.
Now the liquid carry-on rules get implemented by the airlines and you can't bring on any liquids more than 100ml per bottle on the plane. Damn.
Maple syrup doesn't come in small bottles at the neighbourhood market.
What to do? Get those mini tourist sized bottles of course.
Now something about all the tourist shops just screams, "Na-na na na Naah. Na-na na na Naaah. Weeee will weeeee will gouge you. BOM. Gouge you. BOM." (You know the tune.)
So I just had to do a little comparison shopping just on principle. Three 100ml bottles of pure Canadian maple syrup at some tourist shops were running between $15-$21.
Enter a tourist shop that calls itself a jewelery shop - Georgi. WTF?
They have all the tourist crap that all the other tourist shops have. But for some reason they have a good deal on those little bottles of maple syrup - $11.99 for 3 - and no tax charged on maple syrup for some reason? Sold.
Still - what a rip off imposed by those silly liquid carry-on rules. But at least Georgi reduced the rip-off and made me feel slightly better!
And I even got out without buying a "Kiss me I'm Canadian" t-shirt, RCMP hat, or moose ears. Phew!
