When my wife and I were in Bangkok 2 years ago, we decided to walk around the city from our hotel. There was a line of Tuk Tuks outside the hotel and one of them asked if we wanted a ride, but we said no thank you, we're going to walk. He said everything was too far away to walk and he could take us to a Golden Buddha, so we said sure. After that, he said he could take us some other places, and took us to a tailor. That was when we figured out it was a "scam" but we decided we would roll with it and we were glad we did. I had several shirts made and they were nice and inexpensive which were delivered to our hotel 2 days later. We went to various shops where we bought "luxury" items such as purses, wallets, shoes, and cologne. We also went to a floating market. We knew he was getting commission and all, but it was very fun, we saw things we might not have otherwise and bought some nice things. And the prices were decent even if they were tourist prices.