Briefly:
Dropped by the above dealer at Funan to look at some items of interest.
Offered an initial price, which i requested for a slight lowering as goodwill and as full payment in cash. Request insistently refused. To be fair herefirst, the initial offer price is indeed slight better than market, but but! reserve note here.
I broke off the haggling to entertain a personal call, meantime notice that that staff 'Jo*' taking out one of the 2 item boxes on display, while stealing peeks in my directions, whilst i was outside the shop. Jo* then sneaked towards the back of the shop, seemingly tangling with something from inside the box's open lid. As i returned to the shop, another staff 'plump lady' was about to replace the removed box, see me coming and decided to hurry back into the shop with the box instead.
I then agreed to pay the offered price, Jo* THEN now proclaim that they only have 2 pieces left. One which is the one on display. The other?...new BUT no warranty avail. I asked to see both units, which Jo* then eagerly did so. Indeed of the last remaining box on display, it is empty [for the display unit]. The other which I believed to be the one removed whilst I was distracted comes with everything EXCEPT the warranty card.
I signalled my upset that they had not informed me earlier at the point of offer, the response is simple: "YOU NEVER CHECKED WITH US, this is all we have...so you want to take [the display set or the no warranty set]?"
Obviously [to dig a bigger hole to cover the previous one], Jo* 'own-offered' NOT to stamp the date of the wty unit so as he consider himself to be ACTUALLY HELPING to prolong the availability of wty for the [display] unit - a great pro-service indeed!
Buyers pls beware, this is the standard gameplay here, BAIT and SWITCH.
What i particularly distress is that in order to 'clear out' their display unit, they have to [sneakily?] resort to swapping out wty cards of available new units, hence declaring having ONE AND ONLY WARRANTIED UNIT -- See the One on Display?.
To bad for them, this post is going to stay up here for quite a while longer than perhaps they prefer. Tell you frankly, I gave up. On Them and whatever other fly-by-nights.
Fellow members, pls take heed. Thks
Dropped by the above dealer at Funan to look at some items of interest.
Offered an initial price, which i requested for a slight lowering as goodwill and as full payment in cash. Request insistently refused. To be fair herefirst, the initial offer price is indeed slight better than market, but but! reserve note here.
I broke off the haggling to entertain a personal call, meantime notice that that staff 'Jo*' taking out one of the 2 item boxes on display, while stealing peeks in my directions, whilst i was outside the shop. Jo* then sneaked towards the back of the shop, seemingly tangling with something from inside the box's open lid. As i returned to the shop, another staff 'plump lady' was about to replace the removed box, see me coming and decided to hurry back into the shop with the box instead.
I then agreed to pay the offered price, Jo* THEN now proclaim that they only have 2 pieces left. One which is the one on display. The other?...new BUT no warranty avail. I asked to see both units, which Jo* then eagerly did so. Indeed of the last remaining box on display, it is empty [for the display unit]. The other which I believed to be the one removed whilst I was distracted comes with everything EXCEPT the warranty card.
I signalled my upset that they had not informed me earlier at the point of offer, the response is simple: "YOU NEVER CHECKED WITH US, this is all we have...so you want to take [the display set or the no warranty set]?"
Obviously [to dig a bigger hole to cover the previous one], Jo* 'own-offered' NOT to stamp the date of the wty unit so as he consider himself to be ACTUALLY HELPING to prolong the availability of wty for the [display] unit - a great pro-service indeed!
Buyers pls beware, this is the standard gameplay here, BAIT and SWITCH.
What i particularly distress is that in order to 'clear out' their display unit, they have to [sneakily?] resort to swapping out wty cards of available new units, hence declaring having ONE AND ONLY WARRANTIED UNIT -- See the One on Display?.
To bad for them, this post is going to stay up here for quite a while longer than perhaps they prefer. Tell you frankly, I gave up. On Them and whatever other fly-by-nights.
Fellow members, pls take heed. Thks
