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[nickwp]

I'm going to on holiday to Australia on Wednesday, and on the way there and back were stopping over at Hong Kong for a couple of days.
Does anyone know of any places to get cheap electronics stuff (especially supercards and the memory cards for them)?
I've heard that there are quite a lot of places selling fake stuff, labelling memory cards as higher capacities than they are etc.
Thanks,
Nick

[Altor]

Just walk down a dark alleyway holding a map out in front of you and saying "now, how do I get to the bank?", you'll get lots of things offered to you

[markus]

There are a few good places to check out.

Mong Kok, lots of electronics stuff from computers to hi-fi's

Sham Shui Po, which is the location of the the original 'golden arcade' the place where all the pirated games we sold a few years back. There is also an electronics street/market, where you can bargain like crazy with the vendors for old electronics and parts. You can find alot of junk there, things like LED flashlights, heat shink tubing to wonderswan's.

These will be the easiest for you to find as they are located very close to MTR exits. (MTR= mass transit railway)

[ImmortalNinja]

Depends what you're looking for.
Dodgy dvds, and games are being heavily clamped down on and the location of such stalls are hard to nail down and constantly changing.
The last time I was there (last Nov) they were hanging out in empty shopping mall shops and pulling down the shutters when the police came by. I decided to wait a few days before getting anything and sadly they never opened up shop again. They also have this weird system where you look at the empty sleeves on the shelves, list down the numbers of the ones you want and hand them over to the dodgy triad guy with the money and then bugger off for 20mins. You spend 20mins wondering around thinking you've just been conned and then come back and (usually) some other person will be there with a stack of discs for you. Invaribly 1 out of 10 wont work and a couple will not be what they say they are.....

Sham Shui Po is indeed an excellent place to get goods. Right opposite the underground station there is a shopping mall who's entire ground floor is dedicated to selling games and hardware, including supercards, but there will probably be fakes and knockoffs.

Here is a great place to haggle, dont ever except the first price. Being a westerner you get to barter and use ploys like "I'm leaving tomorrow and only have x amount of money left"  "I've seen it for about the same price down there but I REALLY want to buy it from you".
I dont get to use these being a British Born Chinese but then my starting price is lower anyway  

While on the surface everything might seem legit theres also some nudge nudge wink wink going on where they offer you dvd's with iso or to preload your psp mem-stick with some games, these cost extra and personlly I dont bite as it not anything you cant get off the net, but do try to swing it as an extra bonus.

Having said all this, Hong Kong is ever changing and seeing it was more than 6 months since I was last there most of this info is probably out-dated...

KK