I've found my Beijing equivalent of "Craigslist"

So, although we all know that Craigslist has a Beijing section where people can buy and sell things as well as look for people to "hang out", there is a Beijing specific website that caters to all the same finds that Craigslist does. The website I found, after reading a copy of their magazine, is www.thebeijinger.com. They have a website and I think they might be affiliated with the magazine "That's Beijing", something I was first introduced to on my first trip to Beijing a couple years ago.

Anyhow, the way I came to start using it as frequently as Craigslist, which many of you guys know is ALL THE TIME, was by feeling like I got REALLY ripped off. So most of you know that I've been looking for some quality Olympics tickets. Well, I found some, but they were sold to me by some shady EAP dude. Shady in the sense that I think he's a sleaze. Anyway, he sold me the tickets for about 600 total each, which I thought was reasonable, seeing all the other ticket prices. In the end it turns out that the original price of the tickets were RMB 80. Basically he jacked the price sooo far that I feel like I got totally ripped off. Immediately I was pissed and basically sold them off to the next bidder.

I've been looking on the Beijinger for something that is better pricing, but only some people are like me and spend all their time at the computer. I've only got a few hits. However, thinking about it now, one thing that the EAP guy's tickets were that they were 100% legitimate. If they aren't, there's always a way to find him and kill him. Anyway, I was just pissed a fellow American ripped off another fellow American EAPer soo hard. It wasn't even me who bought the tickets, it was my roommate who is supposedly friends with him. Anyway, his lame "friendly" act doesn't work on me! Cao ta ma! I will get tickets that are legitimate and better than his. Jeez, RMB 600 for and RMB 80 ticket, that's way more than I charged for the Kanye tickets. He shouldn't have done so much, I woulda felt a little more satisfied with the purchase if it was around 400 or 500 even, though that still sounds like a rip off. It is the Olympics after all, right?

What do you guys think? I'm looking for other tickets now, but don't know how much luck I will have, knowing that the games are starting very soon. Oh well, I guess my Craigslist days are back. Before I lose the tickets, I'll show you them.



These tickets sure as hell have some kind of chip in them to track us. They are pretty thick and feel like the new US passports, which are thick and have microchip tracking devices. Ohh, scary world.