They finally started to sell stuff! After an hour speech about how senior citizens should feel empowered to make their own decisions, it set the perfect stage for scamming the elderly to make their own purchasing decisions. First up was a jade pillow cover that supposedly healed all of your illnesses. It was 300 RMB, when it was obviously fake jade that was worth maybe 30 RMB. It didn't matter because there was 'limited' time and quantity, so the audience went nuts fighting for this piece of crap. My grandma really wanted one but thankfully my grandpa wouldn't give her money. While they were busy selling more over-priced items, one of the staffers was busy schmoozing with me telling me that my grandparents looked healthy for their age, I was a good granddaughter for accompanying them this early in the morning, and that I looked like I was very well educated. So I told him I was a Ph.D student, he responded, "That's what I thought." At the end of the event, they handed everyone free toothpaste (as pictured) and I could've walked away with a boyfriend. Too bad he would be useless in the US cause my grandma really liked him.
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