Tuesday, May 24, 2011

10 Dirham Shops - Buying Gifts in Dubai

Have you ever faced a time when you have some change and need to buy a gift for someone. Something small and delicate or may be not very expensive. You would be glad to know that this would not be a problem if you were in Dubai. Dubai is an amazing place and it has a lot of varieties of things. Confused about what I am talking. Let me tell you in detail.

Dubai has these small stores where they sell items from 10 to 25 dirhams. These are called the 10 dirham shops. Here you will find a variety of thing within this price range. Are you thinking that if things are so cheap there they must not be of good quality? Let me provide you with the answer, no their quality of things are not bad but I will say that obviously you will not find a diamond necklace for 20 dirhams.

Let me share a story. There was this girl once who went to Dubai and she was 10 to 12 years of age. She went with one of her neighbours for shopping while her parents went out for some work. The girl was from Pakistan. Her neighbour took to this 10 dirham shop. Guess what she was amazed to see that everything was so cheap there, for her 10 dirhams was like 10 rupees so without thinking about the foreign exchange she shopped for 500 dirhams. In those days the exchange rate was about 20 Pakistani rupees. The little girl was very happy and bought all these things home.  When her parents arrived they were astonished when their daughter told them about the shopping in fact they were thinking about the many they had to pay the neighbour.  The bill summed up to 10 thousand rupees and the poor parents had to pay it.

My advice to all of you who wish to buy something small and cheap do visit this shop as you will really be excited to buy something from here. There are many shops like that that will fancy you here in Dubai. Gifts matter a lot especially if you have come for a visit and you have to buy gifts for the entire family on your way home, then this is the right place to go for shopping, where you can buy things at a cheaper rate and your family will be delighted to see these goodies.

2 comments:

tamseela said...

hi
how i can contact with these 10-20 darham stores ..do you have ny emails of these store...

tamseela1@gmail.com

Ali said...

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