The PC lady of horror
The the sweet whafting aroma of new pc and IT peripherals was all over KLCC. No suprise since it PC Fair again! YAY!
The nerd and techno geeks promised lands comes to life with pretty computer hardware girls. Big yay to the competition being so tough there that the companies decided to use the "pretty girls and short skirts" strategy to sell computer hardware (regardless whether these girls know anything about wat the product key selling proposition is at least the guys are stopping by to to "look see look see")
so this morning i thought id take advantage of the PC fair and drop by sunway pyramid to get myself a usb wifi dongle (i love my mac so much but to service the wifi arial gonna cost me a whopping 300 bux but my monthly budget forced me to come out with a cheaper alternative).
so there i was in sunway, looking gor a usb dongle that was compatible with my mac (only one available in malaysia that under RM 150 = dlink dwl-g122 for u macaddicts out there). Low and behold i found it at this lil obscure shop right behind the Sunway IT centre. price?
RM 187!
screw tat i thought. All this things can bargain onelah. after all most of these ppl marked up the price of these very specialised by 40% -50% which leaves them a bargaining power of maybe a 10%-20& "discount" to make them look very very kindlah so that we patronize the establishment more.
so i embark in the graceful dance of bringing the price down (ok not so graceful coz my girlfren says that when i start bargaining with these ppl all i have this f*cked face and a "im better than u" tone; which isnt true=).
coming back to the situation at hand the lady behind the counter refused to bring down the price below 180. now by this time she explained to me that she follows the price from low yat plaza main office.
i look her in the face and explained to her that the last week i was hunting for the same product and she told me that the price was 170 so its quite impossible the price went up instead of down. so i told her i do actualy have the choice of going downtown for the pc fair and getting the the price lower. i MAY have mentioned that it would have been a smarter choice for her to drop the price down to 160 and i can take 2 of her slowest moving products off the shelves (which is true as true tech ppl would nvr be caught dead buying a cheapo shop like hers. that plus the fact that i saw the serial numbers was the same as the week before (useful information for bargaining... usually).
i dun remember exactly the words i used but hey its the msg that matters right?
now she decided that i was being a smart alec and a "trouble maker" and to top it off decides to call me names in cantonese that would make a mother's ear shrivel and drop off. Bwahahahah. u should have seen her face when i walked away from the counter when and called her a 2-bit whore back in cantonese.
that said i went to klcc and met a few clients there and bought the USB dongle at 135 each.
but i ramble. the moral of this episode; i learned that most ppl are workers and never think through of the benefit of their establishment (penny wise pound foolish most of them). too many ppl assume that their client know nothing about the products they sell and nvr assume that the clients can speak cantonese.
for all u techies out there i urge that u nvr walk away front a sales person that sells too high and tells u that it's the cheapest price available. Never let them walk all over us and speaks to us as if we're to dumb to understand their products. i hope that they will soon learn their lesson and just give to the fact that malaysians loves to bargain. meet that need and all of us (purchasers and sellers alike) will walk away from the counter feeling that there waas no losers in that bargaining session.
best wishes to all,
Azlan A. Aziz
The nerd and techno geeks promised lands comes to life with pretty computer hardware girls. Big yay to the competition being so tough there that the companies decided to use the "pretty girls and short skirts" strategy to sell computer hardware (regardless whether these girls know anything about wat the product key selling proposition is at least the guys are stopping by to to "look see look see")
so this morning i thought id take advantage of the PC fair and drop by sunway pyramid to get myself a usb wifi dongle (i love my mac so much but to service the wifi arial gonna cost me a whopping 300 bux but my monthly budget forced me to come out with a cheaper alternative).
so there i was in sunway, looking gor a usb dongle that was compatible with my mac (only one available in malaysia that under RM 150 = dlink dwl-g122 for u macaddicts out there). Low and behold i found it at this lil obscure shop right behind the Sunway IT centre. price?
RM 187!
screw tat i thought. All this things can bargain onelah. after all most of these ppl marked up the price of these very specialised by 40% -50% which leaves them a bargaining power of maybe a 10%-20& "discount" to make them look very very kindlah so that we patronize the establishment more.
so i embark in the graceful dance of bringing the price down (ok not so graceful coz my girlfren says that when i start bargaining with these ppl all i have this f*cked face and a "im better than u" tone; which isnt true=).
coming back to the situation at hand the lady behind the counter refused to bring down the price below 180. now by this time she explained to me that she follows the price from low yat plaza main office.
i look her in the face and explained to her that the last week i was hunting for the same product and she told me that the price was 170 so its quite impossible the price went up instead of down. so i told her i do actualy have the choice of going downtown for the pc fair and getting the the price lower. i MAY have mentioned that it would have been a smarter choice for her to drop the price down to 160 and i can take 2 of her slowest moving products off the shelves (which is true as true tech ppl would nvr be caught dead buying a cheapo shop like hers. that plus the fact that i saw the serial numbers was the same as the week before (useful information for bargaining... usually).
i dun remember exactly the words i used but hey its the msg that matters right?
now she decided that i was being a smart alec and a "trouble maker" and to top it off decides to call me names in cantonese that would make a mother's ear shrivel and drop off. Bwahahahah. u should have seen her face when i walked away from the counter when and called her a 2-bit whore back in cantonese.
that said i went to klcc and met a few clients there and bought the USB dongle at 135 each.
but i ramble. the moral of this episode; i learned that most ppl are workers and never think through of the benefit of their establishment (penny wise pound foolish most of them). too many ppl assume that their client know nothing about the products they sell and nvr assume that the clients can speak cantonese.
for all u techies out there i urge that u nvr walk away front a sales person that sells too high and tells u that it's the cheapest price available. Never let them walk all over us and speaks to us as if we're to dumb to understand their products. i hope that they will soon learn their lesson and just give to the fact that malaysians loves to bargain. meet that need and all of us (purchasers and sellers alike) will walk away from the counter feeling that there waas no losers in that bargaining session.
best wishes to all,
Azlan A. Aziz
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