Eh, went to KLCC Maxis center, was looking to buy one outright for my hotlink prepaid. Unfortunately, according to the sales guy, outright purchase will only be allowed Jan of next year, possibly even later if stocks are still selling out!

Furthermore he says that Maxis will stop supplying to other traders like machines etc so the only way to get it is through Maxis, and via contract. Sure enough, I checked the machines store in KLCC. They've taken down the iphone displays, said they are no longer selling.

Any truth to all this or is this sales guy full of it?

Man was so looking forward to getting an iphone, may have to go Android now

Eh, probably doing it because sales too good... so guess customers are too loyal? Hope they don't turn to AT&T and go permanently Contract or GTFO

Anyway, will check maxis and machines @ Pavilion tomorrow to see if there's any truth to this. Keeping fingers crossed...

No, Maxis no longer accepts outright purchases, at least at the few that I have checked (Pavilion, KLCC, Times Square). Will only be available for outright purchase next year.

However I have found that epi-centers or machine stores sell them outright, try those. They have less stock though. And don't believe any Maxis guy telling you that these traders are no longer going to sell iphones any more, they are LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH hoping you'll get a contract (assume they have commission?).

Great... between lying staff and pissed-off-for-no-reason managers, Maxis is really really digging their own grave at this rate.

But unfortunately people like me don't have any choice if we want to buy outright, since digi doesn't sell them outright last I checked. Sigh, I'm so turned off this business.

Well check the road show for it, otherwise bye bye iphone 4

Heh no wonder booking list are all so crazy, all of you are dropping names all over the place

Missed it by that much... went there at 12pm and saw one woman leave with an iphone... that was the last for today

This post has been edited by LordSparda: Oct 15 2010, 03:28 PM

When did that message show up? All the maxis centers I've been to unanimously said that prepaid users can only get their iphones outright in January.

All right, now I got proof when those sales folk try to b.s. me again.

Hopefully they will allow prepaid outright purchase... am planning to check it out on Tuesday.

Maxis themselves have confirmed that it is indeed available for outright purchase, and Prepaid users get free 500mb per month for 12 months. However, a lot of sales people will deny it and try to con you into a contract (I guess they get commission for each new contract?).

I'm not sure if they plan to allow outright purchases in the roadshow tomorrow, I'll be there to check.

That's great news. Hopefully I can point to #maxislistens as proof when the maxis cs start spouting their usual bs

It's true, confirmed by Maxis themselves at #maxislistens. But bear in mind that Maxis customer service folks will lie to you about there being no such deal, or will only happen in January etc.

Anyway, I'll be going to KLCC at 12pm, hopefully can grab one quickly within my available lunch time. If not I can always go back Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, ha ha...

Perks of working near the place.

Though I got a feeling that it won't even reach my turn if I queue up for one hour, bleh....

Damn this is getting ridiculous... don't these people need to work? Or are they really taking leave to buy a friggin' PHONE? Cause there can't be that many rich or retired folks who don't need to work

Oh well, hopefully they will have more allocations later today, or tomorrow.

Huh, mine too... pretty sure if I alternate between Pavilion and KLCC every day for lunch I'll get it... eventually

I just came back from there as well, can confirm what he's saying. Basically allotment is only 100 units (not 150) per day, no restock. Basically all taken up before they even open... so their advice is to come at 7-8am and camp until they open at 10am. Well, thankfully I'm not THAT desperate.

Just for kicks I asked a few maxis cs them about outright selling.... it's hilarious, they ALL have different explanations!
a) Maxis changed their mind this morning, #maxislistens hasn't been updated yet
b) #maxislistens is not an official channel
c) Outright sale models already sold old (WTF? LOL)

Hell, one guy even told me that 12 month plan is selling out, asked me to consider the 24 month. No really, he said that. 12 month plan can actually sell out.

Oh, one more thing. They have lots of sales folk, but there's only about three or four guys doing the activation and setup. Dunno if they'll bring in any more later, but apparently according to one guy I asked (who's been there since 8am), they've only processed about 15 out of the 100 guys. That's at 12pm, two hours since they've opened. He's no. 72, so he's complaining like hell.

Man, Maxis just doesn't know how to run a roadshow.

All the MEPs I've asked, the waiting list is about 1 month. I'm going to keep trying the Maxis Centers, I'm sure I'll eventually be able to get it before that.

Actually, from what I was told from the folks over there, it's 100 per day over the six days.

And it's only for new contract only, no outright purchase.

And you need to be there at 7-8am to start queuing.

And expect to stay there till night time, there's just 2-3 service folk doing the 100 activations.

No wonder Maxis hid away the roadshow dates, it's a total disaster as far as I can tell.

This post has been edited by LordSparda: Oct 19 2010, 05:12 PM

Haha... at the rate we're going everyone and his mother, wife and gardener will be sporting iphone 4s...

paul5005, may I ask how much did you get the set?

Well, Maxis promised that they'll have a lot of stocks so conned a lot of people from all over, some from out of state where there's low stock allocations etc. Unfortunately, to Maxis, lot of stocks = sold out two hours before opening every day