I once met a woman from China at the airport in Frankfurt while waiting for my plane. When I asked her what her plans in Europe were, she told me she's a personal shopper. Apparently many companies won't ship to a lot of places in China and the people there don't trust that the local shops actually sell the original products and instead sell knockoffs of name brand fashion merchantdise. Additionally, Chinese men often won't let their wives travel without them, so the wives can't go shop for themselves. Instead they hire someone else to travel to places like Paris, New York or California and give them a list of dresses, purses, etc... that they want. Sounded like an awesome job to me. Get paid to travel and shop. She said she made decent money, too, and that often, her customers would pay for her to buy things for herself on top of that as a tip. the people there don't trust that the local shops actually sell the original products and instead sell knockoffs of name brand fashion merchantdise