Singapore's counterfeit goods market is not specific and concentrated. Distributed in airports, railway stations, tourist attractions and shopping malls. The fakes sold range from jadeite and diamonds to colorful treasures and jade. In some places, there are also real gold and silver inlays that are specially matched with them. It is also a genius idea to cover up fake jewelry with real inlays. Singapore's most famous fake gathering place should be the local Chinatown, which is also called "fake street" by locals. Although not all fakes are in Chinatown, the proportion of fakes is quite high.
Russia and Ukraine are the most famous producing areas of amber beeswax in the world. A large number of tourists from China go to these two places to buy beeswax every year. The profiteers in the two places saw business opportunities. They specially built some places like Beeswax City and Amber Shopping Mall, and laid fake amber beeswax shops on a large scale. When a whole shopping mall is full of fake goods, all comparisons and inspections become useless. People choose from the left and right in the shopping mall, but in fact they only choose from fakes, so it is impossible to choose the real thing.
Thailand's fake industry has formed a complete fake industrial chain. As we all know, Thailand is one of the origins of rubies, and jadeite also has a certain inflow, so the market here is full of fakes. It can be said that almost 90% of rubies and jadeites in Thailand's tourism market are glue-injected fakes.
Too much, the fakes you bought in Thailand have all kinds of certificates to prove that they are true. Take it to the market evaluation agency, and they will tell you that it is true. You give it to an old hand in the industry and he will tell you that it is true. Even if you take it to a state-owned appraisal agency for appraisal, he will still tell you that it is true. I didn't know it was fake until I went back to China for identification.
In other words, if you want to buy a gem in Thailand, unless you have enough ability to distinguish between true and false, even if you buy a fake, Thailand's fake industrial chain will force you to think it is true until you leave the industrial chain, and everything will appear in the sun, so that you can understand the true and false.