Comments on: Robert Joseph to winery owners: Beware of Chinese wanting gifts https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/04/09/robert-joseph-to-winery-owners-beware-of-chinese-wanting-gifts/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Tue, 12 May 2009 09:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Garry https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/04/09/robert-joseph-to-winery-owners-beware-of-chinese-wanting-gifts/#comment-10153 Tue, 12 May 2009 09:14:27 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1232#comment-10153 A Chinese colleague of mine (who’s boyfriend worked for a French wine distribution company), in relation to wine values in BJ, once enthusiastically boasted that she could assertain first growth Bordeaux form a restauranteur in BJ for 200-500 RMB. I looked at her, trying to keep a straight face, but waiting patiently for the punch line!

And she is Chinese, and been here for many more years than me. She should know better, but sometimes you put the blinkers on when you desperately want to believe. No offence intended to those who (with little experience of this market) got scammed in your article.

]]> By: Serge https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/04/09/robert-joseph-to-winery-owners-beware-of-chinese-wanting-gifts/#comment-9813 Wed, 06 May 2009 00:10:26 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1232#comment-9813 I was contacted by similar scam artist who wanted to buy 100 000 bottles and I have to sign up contract Where? in China (red flag) anyway I send him few samples bottles that (lucky/unlucky) was delivered broken. Than one more due diligence step helped me: Typing his company name scam at Google. And I got result on this clown who wanted to but $500 000 worth of ship skin here, $800 000 worth of flooring there. SO I contacted authorities in ShenZhen.

]]> By: Richard Winchester https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/04/09/robert-joseph-to-winery-owners-beware-of-chinese-wanting-gifts/#comment-9155 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:12:54 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1232#comment-9155 I am a wine consultant based in New Zealand and can vouch for the Guilin scam.

We must have been lucky though, our painting only cost USD6000 !

]]> By: Elyse Ribbons https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/04/09/robert-joseph-to-winery-owners-beware-of-chinese-wanting-gifts/#comment-8314 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:18:04 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1232#comment-8314 that has to be the most perfectly appropriate image (bottle opener) possible for this post. brilliance.

as for the scam… I am amazed at the intricacy of the scheme.

]]> By: Marc-China Wine Tours https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/04/09/robert-joseph-to-winery-owners-beware-of-chinese-wanting-gifts/#comment-8296 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:32:01 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1232#comment-8296 No haggling? Definitely a red flag.

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