precious stones and gems.

The other story i hear a lot is of travellers getting talked-pressured into buying so/called precious stones and gems. Yeah man, you buy cheap from me and sell with a profit back in your country. i have the address of my friend in your countr, he will have give good price for you, you come back to India and have more money, can stay longer. good for you. Needless to say, the story is crap and the stones fakes and glass. But the number of people who fall for this scam is amazingly big, greet takes over and makes them blind to all else, especially common sense!!! Big profits, yeah, yeah, just a matter of greet and stupidity on the part of the buyers and sweet talking and phycological warfare on the part of the sellers. I always stay well clear of anybody telling me stories that seem to good to be true. Nicely dressed loacal blokes - though i met travellers who are into this shit as well - with sweet talk who want to start a conversation with me with somewhere along the line a story about a brother or uncle who owns a gem shop will creep up. hahahaha.