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Avoid! Was unexpectedly taken to this place as par...

Avoid! Was unexpectedly taken to this place as part of our Dubai City tour (it wasn't mentioned in the itinerary) and I found this place to be just an ultimate tourist trap. I forgot the name of the person who took us around within Saga World, but he was incredibly pushy in making us purchase expensive items within the store. We were shown pieces of art "supposedly" made out of precious gems and gold and silver threads. They were particular about not taking any pictures inside. There were many gimmicks (lighting up the art work, rolling it up to show no visible marks of destruction etc.) as part of the presentation where he tried to light up the piece of art to prove it's authenticity and went on and on about astrology etc before even revealing the artwork. When it was mentioned that "precious stones were melted and made into thread to make this art" we figured we have been brought into a money trap where the presenter is not just a pushy salesmen but has no sense of what he's talking about and was just lying to sell items which were probably fake. There was also a mention about a table make out of camel bone, like come on? When we refused to even want to know the price of the pieces he was getting annoyed and when we were clear about not wanting to buy anything, he got incredibly angry, which was something that we didn't appreciate. The place resembles a mini-mall with many sections within for various items. But for the size, it was eerily empty, which again is proof of the nature of the store. My humble suggestion to all of you is to just avoid at all costs.

My humble suggestion to the owner etc. is that people value honesty, true quality products, a genuine approach and the rest will fall into place. Stop these stupid gimmicks and selling fake items.

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