Jian’Guo Lu(Lu=street) is a street in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, near the train station, famous for its computer merchandise and other gadgets. It sells, as expected from Taiwan, computers, gadgets and other computer components at a lower bargain price. That even I and my friends, who picked to go to Taiwan to lessen travel costs, would buy goods from Jian’Guo Lu instead of buying this merchandise in the Philippines. We would often buy together as to get a bigger discount because of the quantity that we have already purchased. Computers and laptops are cheaper there especially, durable & reliable Taiwanese brands like ACER & ASUS. Other laptops there costs less because most of them are manufactured in Taiwan, for instance my friend brought a HP laptop in Jian’Guo Lu for 35 K Php, a model which would be about 50 K here in the Philippines. But wait! There’s more! He got a free, HP printer with the laptop. I don’t think you can find a deal like that here in the Philippines.
We also bought cameras from Jian’Guo Lu, we decided to buy together 2 Samsung Digital Cameras, one costing first costing 7,000 NTD(New Taiwan Dollars, 1 NTD=1.3Php) and the other about 10, 000 NTD. Both with more than 7 Megapixels, a 2 GB memory and battery. The cameras were sold to us at the final price of 5,000 NTD and 8,800 NTD. The saleslady also threw in for free this cleaner cloth, as she saw we were overly-interested on it (only because the CLEANING cloth was branded MARUMI).
We can see here that the market in Jian’Guo Lu exhibited price discrimination by altering the price through the change in total quantity or total amount that was purchased. We can also see here that Taiwan had an advantage in selling this kind of merchandise, for a lesser price as inputs or supply of these merchandise was easily available in the country. For example, Taiwan's Premier Chemical & Electronic Chemical Material Manufacturer Eternal developed and produce for the highly specialized electronic chemical raw materials industry, producing Copper-Clad Laminates and Dry Film Photoresist for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) applications (for computer screens). This of which is a good example of inputs readily available in Taiwan for such merchandise like computers.
So if ever you go to Taiwan, save up for bargain computer merchandise, don’t underestimate Taiwan braded products like ACER and ASUS as they are very durable and less pricey.
Taiwan's Premier Chemical & Electronic Chemical Material ManufacturerEternal Chemical Co. Ltd., Kaohsiung Science Park, Taiwan
15 comments:
I would surely go to Jian'Guo Lu when I go and visit Taiwan in my future world tour. However, wouldn't Hong Kong be a better place to buy electronic goods since it's cheaper there?
But, it really is funny how sales people in other country seem to create package deals in an instant just because they think you're still thinking whether or not you would be buying from them. In Korea, I was given a photoprinter when I bought my camera. Hehe! Yey to shopping abroad!
wow. if only the the price of the inputs and supplies were cheaper in the philippines. thanks for the info!
Wow! Very interesting Nina! Is that the only place in Taiwan where great electronic bargains are available? If the inputs are cheap in Taiwan, will a stall not located along Jian’Guo Lu offer the same bargain? Thanks for the info!
taiwan would really have cheaper prices for their electronics because they can make most of what's needed for their products.
how much is a nintendo ds or ds lite in taiwan? it's a japanese product but it would be cheaper in taiwan, i guess.
perhaps the philippines could follow taiwan's lead. :) technotourism!! yahoo!
1) At first I didn't get the Marumi joke. *facepalms*
2) Branded laptops are kinda expensive in the Philippines, which is part of the reason why I didn't buy mine in Manila.
Perhaps if we become a massive market for electronic goods, we may have the privilege of having the goods shipped directly here, which in effect will lessen the tariffs.
I know most, if not all Apple products sold here in the Philippines gets dropped off at Singapore first, before they arrive here. The cost of shipping to both ports is factored in the selling price. Not to mention the distributor's and the retailer's margins is added there as well.
Sure, we may not have a super high-tech, high-volume shipping port like Singapore, but if the consumer electronics market here in the Philippines exceeds the size the of the entire ASEAN region, perhaps it would make more sense to the companies to ship directly here.
So how can we achieve this? How will the companies know that we have such a voracious appetite for their gizmos and gadgets?
Well.. we buy them all in the Philippines! Just keep the increasing purchases from local stores and revenue projections for the Philippines will go up!
And then the government should devalue our currency all the way down to P60 to a dollar. that would discourage anyone from importing.
And then with that exchange rate foreign tech companies will find out how cheap our labor and resources are. They'd surely put up hundreds of electronics factories here!
And then we can stop eating! Allot more money for electronics! Food is such a waste of money! Food becomes poo! Poooooo!
Now if we can all do that, I can finally buy a P15,000 iPhone!
You entry further reiterated my desire to do some serious shopping in Taiwan xD HAHAHAHA Halavet! <3
I didn't know that Taiwan sold such electronics in low prices. Maybe we should put up importation businesses and get those products in Taiwan to sell here in the Philippines, haha!
wow didn't know taiwan had so many cheap products hehe
wow! now that's totally bargain! this really helped me especially now that i'm planning on buying a new digicam for myself and a personal laptop someday. hahaha. so now i know where to go. ;)
i hope the philippines would follow taiwan. hehehe. we'd definitely benefit from the cheaper prices considering now. thanks for the great info nigui!
WOAH 35 k lang?! and meron na free printer?!!! WOW. pero i still love france better hihi. Hm nigui di ba ACER ung laptop mo?
maganda ba ung samsung cameras? i know canon is usually really good, but i dont know abt samsung. UYYYY marumi cleaning cloth? hahahahahahaha good one!!! it's all abt semantics. okay next time i go to taiwan i will buy! yay nigui!
jiggy, yeah i think electronics are also cheap in hong kong, im just not sure of the difference in price in hong kong from those sold in Taiwan.
thanks for the comment. :)
Anonymous,may 22 9:33pm, yeah there are many more places in Taiwan that sells cheap electronics not only Jian'Guo Lu, even in Carrefour (Jia Le Fu) supermarkets electronics are cheap. I only sited Jian'Guo Lu as it's a popular electronics street, and that I lived in Kaohsiung thus it was the place I mostly went to. Im sure there are similar places in Taiwan's capital Taipei, I just wasn't able to explore them. :)
di ko naintinihan 'to. di pa ako nag eco!
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