u/INMEMORYOFSCHNAUSKY

I was at the world of disney store in Shanghai as an Asian american tourist (carrying my luggage around the store before we went off to the airport). While browsing got approached at least 3-4x by other shoppers in the store asking us something in Mandarin I couldnt wuite inderstand, but it sounded like they were asking if we wanted them to buy stuff for us.

I asked a store employee and he said they were “dai gou” (代购). Anyone know what the point of these surrogate shoppers are for, if Im already in the store myself its not like I need them to buy stuff for me. Or are they scammers to watch out for in the future?