Comments on: Sheets http://engineerinshenzhen.com/sheets/ Chronicling a trip to China to manufacture a product Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:43:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Scott Brauer http://engineerinshenzhen.com/sheets/#comment-342 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:35:07 +0000 http://engineerinshenzhen.com/?p=113#comment-342 Haha…experiences like that are the norm. I never saw a fitted bed sheet in China that I didn’t bring to the country myself. And the flat sheets always seemed to be slightly the wrong dimension for any bed I ever encountered. For the top cover, they do things in the European style, which is a sheet that you stuff a comforter in. I’m sure it’s too warm for the comforter where you are, but those extra sheets on top can be nice.

And quit trying to use a credit card. Almost nowhere has the capability of handling a foreign card, and in those that do (only a few of the big chains, and usually only one of their stores in the city) somebody will steal your card info and rack up a bunch of fraudulent charges. I’ve seen it happen multiple times. Using a credit card in China is, at best, futile and, ordinarily, just asking for a world of financial hurt and annoyance.

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