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Royal Fashion Tailors in Chiang Mai is a complete scam. Thankfully I read Tracey's post above before getting completely screwed.
My story is much the same. It was our first day in Chiang Mai after several days of pleasant, trustworthy interactions with the locals on Samui and Ko Tao. There were so many red flags it was a joke, so I take full blame for being scammed. Long story short, they plant people around the tourist areas who will try to befriend you and regale you with stories and then suggest you purchase a fine silk dress for your girlfriend or a cashmere suit for yourself, but they don't actually offer to take you anywhere or push you to buy anything. That is the key to their scam. The first guy that approached us was very convincing and not at all pushy. He drew on our map to point out the sights to see, etc. That lead us right into another guy we struck up conversation by claiming he was the architect of the Wat we were visiting. He looked at our map and inquired about the writing. When we told him about the previous gentleman that had given us directions to Royal Fashion, he excitedly told us it was the best place and gave us many thumbs up.
In our initial visit to the store, there were two British women excitedly looking through materials and getting fitted for dresses. It made the place seem acceptable even though the skeezy salesman had a nasty mullet, brown chicklet teeth and a very seedy manner. The salesman also did the burn test on swaths of cashmere vs. swaths of cheap polyester to show us the difference in material (why he had any cheap material should have been a big red flag).
The seedy salesman pushed for a sale that day and said I had to take measurements right then in order for them to make the suit. He also demanded cash payment since he was giving me such a good deal and didn't want to pay the credit card fee. By the time I left, I had given him 2000 Baht down payment (he had asked for 5000). It all happened so fast, I felt very uneasy about it. After I read Tracey's post, I went back for the fitting and they had blatantly pulled a bait and switch with the material. They used an itchy, cheap, polyester material in place of the cashmere swath I was shown. He denied my accusation and offered to cut the material to do another burn test, which I asked him to do. It smelled like chemicals, not hair, further proving my objection. I tried the pants on just for shits and giggles and they were so tight I could have shredded them with one squat. We tried to take some ties and get out of the store with at least that, but the scumbag salesman became ornery and tried to physically block my girlfriend and I from leaving the store. At that point we just bullied past him (he's a pipsqueak Indian with a mullet)and took off. He got away with 2000 Baht, but it's better than the 8,500 I was going to pay for "100% cashmere suit with 100% Lanna silk tie). I take full blame in ignoring the many red flags, but feel it's important to share my story and to thank Tracey and others for sharing theirs.