just a note of Interest. We do buy some trinkets to bring home for ourselves and friends but unless you actually watch the person make the item most are not homemade and not even made it Jamaica. Yes some or the painters and carvers do there own work and or course fresh fruit vendors. But anyone could open a craft store overnight.

I am in the outdoor retail business and go the the Surf Expo show every year. Last year walked into a booth and thought I had just walked into a jamaican craft store. The had almost every item you might see at any craft vendor in Jamaica or any other 3rd world country. Check out the website and see for your self www.guatemalart.com the wholesale price on the average rasta bracelet $4.00 per dozen and $3.00 per dozen when buying a gross.

Everyone has a right to a opinion and uscgamecock was only expressing his. and we are in the same boat that we have friends that have come to Jamaica with us and had a great time and return often but have taken others that will never go back for this very reason that some vendors are just too pushy.

Timm {Don't Tread On Me}