Rosebank Art & Craft Market — Attraction in Gauteng

I'm giving it 2 stars because you can find some good touristy things; however the shopping experience is a nightmare. I've never experienced anything like it. And I've traveled to many other countries and even in south africa I have never seen this behavior. The upstairs section is fine, but once you get downstairs.... oh dear lord! Imagine having more than 20 vendors chasing you pretty much your whole time there. They are relentless. Instead of letting you look they all grab your arm pulling you into their kiosk area. It's really a shame because that's really the only store around, to shop for touristy items. After I figured out that everyone was acting like this was a zoo I ran out. I hope management sees this review because others have complained about the same thing. You guys are losing business. By the way if you decide to buy something remember to haggle the price min. half off. That's the true price of the items. Unfortunately tourists are always charged double to sometimes triple. Also do know what they sell there is sold overall all over South Africa; so they aren't selling something handmade and personable made by them. I think I saw two vendors making...

I'm giving a two for the low variety of products and because the artisans look desperate to sell anything! It's very similar to the Rosebank Sunday market, maybe it's the same people who organized it all, they have this consistent problem of always bringing more of the same, then I believe it's because of this the artisans are desperate to sell, because if you don't buy from their stall, you'll buy from the next, it's all the same stuff and they know it! You can't breath there, you're looking something and the neighbors are screaming on your ear "HELLO, CHECK HERE, I HAVE NICE PRODUCTS!!!"! It's a shame! I put my feet in and just wanted to runaway from there on the next second! You have a big space, I don't know why you don't explore it with variety! If you fastly check around Instagram that's thousands of artists that may be happy to expose their art with you! It doesn't surprise that it's always empty inside, maybe you should change the person who choose the vendors! I really don't know how they make money! I hope you get my constructive words and think about it, you have the privileges that almost...

It takes a lot from me to openly lambast something on a public platform, but this must be said. This place is absolutely awful, and I mean truly abysmal. You find yourself being charged nigh on double what you'd ordinarily hope to spend on souvenirs and handcrafted goods that I know, with resounding certainty, are purchased wholesale from the the same supplier. The variety is sorely lacking with one stall resembling one after the other with the only variety presenting itself in the different and imaginative means that the tradespeople attempt to emotionally blackmail and corner you into making a purchase. I've never been harassed like that in my entire life! I had a bloke attempt to wind me up on the basis that he hadn't made a sale that day, that I was his first customer, that I was receiving a 'special price' that was really a second-rate valuation that far exceeded the amount I'd hope to spend on the same product elsewhere. Avoid by all means, a true tourist trap with none of the...