Add up the monetary value of your employment package, and post that on here. Include air fare allowance and vacation travel allowance as well as monthly salary and medicsl cover. by the way, you should receive your air fare allowance irrespective of whether you choose to buy an air ticket. Also tell us how many teaching PERIODS/week, including English corners, etc, your contract stipulates,and the length of each teaching period, probably 45 minutes. Finally, tell us if you will be paid your salary during the long holiday halfway through your contract. If you're getting an employment package with rent-free accommodation worth around 55,000 Yuan plus free private lodgings for a working week of at most 15 CLOCK hours for a 10-month contract, you've not been scammed. If teaching in Beijing, increase the 55,000 by by 10 percent, but if in Shanghai up it by 20 percent. That's the acid test. If Buckland passes it, you've not been duped.