Fake zloty – an adventure in misunderstanding

May 24, 2010 12 Comments by

About 9 months ago I had an encounter with some fake złoty that could have cost me . It had been a nice summers day, and I was walking home at about 8pm past a few local shops that had closed for the evening, not long after moving to Poland. Suddenly, I spotted an interesting [...]

UNDERSTANDING POLAND Read more

eBay Poland – Buyer beware

Jul 15, 2009 7 Comments by

Poland has home-grown clones of every internet giant. If you’re Polish the chances are you don’t use Facebook, you use Nasza Klasa; you don’t use Skype, you use Gadu-Gadu; you don’t use Digg, you use Wykop; you don’t use The Onion, you use Polandian*; and you certainly don’t use eBay, you use Allegro. The phenomenon [...]

THE DAILY POST Read more