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    Galaxy Note - help understanding prices

    So I have tried translating the price.com.hk page for Galaxy Note
    (Samsung GALAXY Note - Smartphone 智能手機 - 手電通訊 - 香港格價網 Price.com.hk)

    But I don't really understand it. Can anyone explain what the two prices are (in the ads below, the prices next to the yellow round blob and the blue round blob with chinese characters inside them)?

    What should I use as a reference price for a Note for an English speaking person who does not care about guarantees or warranties (so a parallel import is fine, providing it works) but MUST have English language capability!).

    I want to buy one today to take on holiday as a spare phone - I assume no benefit in getting from the airport as no taxes in HK?


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    Quote Originally Posted by MovingIn07:
    Can anyone explain what the two prices are (in the ads below, the prices next to the yellow round blob and the blue round blob with chinese characters inside them)?
    This thread may help: http://hongkong.geoexpat.com/forum/1...ead164031.html

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    æ°´/shui means parrell/grey import, off the shelf warrenty/no warraty, official distributors may charge surcharge/double for servicing, no guarantee in english, but all androids (unless it's really dodgy china no brander) have official english suppor

    行 official supplies


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    shui == water; Whats the connection with grey import?
    ( 行 kinda makes sense (official, professional etc) )


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    Quote Originally Posted by HowardCoombs:
    shui == water; Whats the connection with grey import?
    ( 行 kinda makes sense (official, professional etc) )
    Parallel/grey imports here are referred to as water goods.

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    Thanks jaykay that helps.

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    Anyone know.how Taiwan price compare? Fly thru there tomorrow. . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by HowardCoombs:
    shui == water; Whats the connection with grey import?
    ( 行 kinda makes sense (official, professional etc) )
    you have to understand that translation is never 100% accurate, at most a rough approximation, just like figures of speech or colloquial can never be fully understand using translations, anyway 水貨 term may have been derived from when certain goods could not be obtained in hk or were expensive, thus smugglers who supplied this demand from dodgy sources, most like via smugglers boats, hence the term.
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    Research Samsung S3 before you get Samsung Note.

    Some say it's better than iphone.


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    thank you imparanoic == exactly what I was after, some idea of where the term originated; and your explanation kinda has the right ring to it...


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