Tibet Nepal

Tibet Nepal sells Tibetan and Nepali items including, but not limited to, prayer flags, clothing, incense, jewelry, singing bowls, and Buddhist and Hindu religious objects. There are signs posted throughout the store warning shoppers not to touch the merchandise and a gruff male individual (the owner?) will reprimand you if you ignore the signs.

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2005-07-07 15:17:59   The guy who runs the place will help you find jewelry to fit your exact taste and ring size. In addition he always polishes jewerly when you purchase it. —TracyPerkins

2007-03-27 11:54:37   "The gruff male" seemed very friendly to me when I inquired about various types of incense I was interested in. He didn't mind me browsing his incense selection at either, though I didn't touch any of the expensive buddhist artwork. —DanReilly

2007-04-10 13:30:03   I purchased a ring a week ago. I was wearing it despite the fact that it was too big, and then it fell off! I was crushed so I went back to see if they had a similar one, I found two gorgeous rings. The only problem is that he does not carry more than a very large size, and he cannot resize them. Decent retail prices for style and quality of jewelry and gems. —CarrieBishop

2007-04-10 14:05:38   If you are looking for a particular item, especially a cultural or religious symbol, keep poking around after you find one, as there are often several variants of different price and quality located around the store. —JabberWokky

2007-04-10 15:46:28   Not to harp on a local business that has carved a niche, but if you can arrange a travel destination/vacation to these places, you'll releazie markup for things like this are around 45-75% of course he takes the time to go there and export everything, but its hard to pay say a 100 bucks for something you can get for about 25 bucks in the country itself. —JarrettNoble

2007-09-12 13:50:15   Love this store!! You have to pull me out like a kid in a candy shop....however most things are quite pricey. —WeMo

2008-05-19 08:59:14   Retail markup is pretty much ridiculous no matter where you go in Davis. Take a walk over to the local "new age" angel shop Aquarius and you will find tiny tumbled gemstones for $3-6 a piece. You are right, things are significantly cheaper in Asian countries, and I am not defending the practice of price gouging on unique items, however these are a higher quality of silver in many cases, and very nice gemstones, if you saw them advertised on ebay you might expect to pay a similar price. It comes from living in America, we don't produce but we somehow expect to get things cheaply? Oh here's another thing, if an American produced almost identical "hand made" jewelry, you would be expected to pay three times the amount. Food for thought. —CarrieBishop

• Actually, the markup is pretty reasonable. Travelocity says it's about $4,000 to fly over and shop locally, as he suggests. Not including food, lodging and time out of your job, that's about a 16,000% markup. The retail markup pays for the export of the item (which has to travel around the planet), his rental of a storefront in Davis and the profit needed to keep his and any employee's families able to live in Davis. —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards
  

2009-03-01 10:40:38   Awesome store. The owner is very helpful. The prices are not that bad for the uniqueness of the items. —Katarina