TaoBao

Tomorrow I leave for Nanning.
The beautiful thing about China is that it has everything that the west has, just a little different. QQ and TaoBao are internet phenomena, their equivalents being MSN and eBay. Both websites are exclusionary to Chinese (and those literate) as they are entirely in Mandarin. Because 'fixies' are relatively unheard of here, and because turtle-neck mom-pant wearing hipsters haven't discovered them yet, I can buy one on TaoBao real cheaplike. Go right to the source. There's a bicycle factory in Taiwan that ships their product to Shenzhen, just outside of Hong Kong, where certain taxes are not applied (nevermind shipping...).