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Title: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: DaveG on May 08, 2016, 20:27.: Hi All,

Visited the Sunday market at Elche today for the first time and was very impressed with prices in general and especially the quality of the fruit and veg.

There was a major police operation going on with a very substantial number of dejected stall holders watching their stock being selotaped up into big cardboard boxes and confiscated. All they got in return was a A4 piece of paper with a list of confiscated items on. Not the best start to their day.

Dave
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: John H on May 08, 2016, 22:03.: Our favourite market Dave, easy parking, wide isles and as you say great produce at a good price

Regards all

John

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Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: hposborg on May 08, 2016, 23:41.: Hi, where in Elche are the marked ?

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Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: dleafy on May 09, 2016, 08:23.: Why was their stock confiscated?
What were they(trying) to sell?
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: John H on May 09, 2016, 08:53.: It's at the Martinez Valero football stadium in Elche.

Confiscated stock.....I would assume CD's, DVD's, counterfeit designer clothes and bags.....but that's just a guess!!

Regards all

John

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Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: llamedos on May 09, 2016, 09:23.: I wish they'd turn up to some of the other markets and confiscate all the MK bags. Why is Milton Keynes so popular out here?.
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: DaveG on May 09, 2016, 09:33.: Avinguda Manuel Martínez Valero, 3, 03208 Elx, Alicante

Good guess John, mainly clothes and the MK handbags but also perfume and trainers. I wonder if they will police the other markets as well but it certainly sends a message.

Dave
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: dleafy on May 09, 2016, 12:03.: Good to know. I'm not a fan of fake stuff
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: Stan on May 09, 2016, 12:54.: Surely nobody is daft enough to believe that these "brand names" on sale at street markets are genuine?
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: Up the iron on May 09, 2016, 14:56.: I once bought a Rolex watch for 12 euros and said to the stall holder that it must be fake. Its a genuine fake was his reply. The watch lasted years.
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: mike and judith on May 09, 2016, 15:27.: Market - the best, but on a golf day!!!!!
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: JOHN on May 09, 2016, 20:38.: I feel sorry for the people who pay £3000/£4000 for the real watches and everyone presumes they are fakes-you have to laugh!!
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: Corporal Jones on May 09, 2016, 21:25.: I read a story that burberry which has been around since the 1850s nearly went bust due to fakes, not that the fakes took they're custom but that genuine burberry customers who spent a small fortune on theyre bags etc stopped buying because, everyone assumed that the genuine were fakes also so the brand suffered.
With fakes you need to look at the wider picture as a lot of sellers are no doubt being exploited.
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: MICKKAT on May 13, 2016, 21:54.: If they are now cracking down on fakes the will have to arrest all on sea front at Guadama!
Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: puddy-woo on July 24, 2016, 15:21.: Got my Smelly Likeys today and a couple of other bits. Good market. Will return when my bottles need refilling

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Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: BeachLife on July 25, 2016, 10:24.: I've noticed a real crackdown this year on the street and beach sellers very much reduced. A much more noticeable police presence in Alicante around the marina and the beach at the side of the Melia

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Title: Re: Elche Sunday Market
Post by: Blue and white stripes on July 25, 2016, 18:14.: When I took my 9 euro Rolex into town for a new battery the guy behind the counter said 'You do realise don't you that these are meant to be disposable?'
The battery probably cost more than the watch but I loved it.