if a shop sells their stuff over-priced u dont have to bad mouth them so badly. maybe their boss is like that. they can afford to sell expensive so thats their problem. they dun mind losing a few local customers when they have customers like this :

Situation 1

rich guai lou walks by the shop

salesperson : hi
rich guai lou : hi, any new games?

salesperson proceeds to take out latest psp games and starts recommending

rich guai lou : this, this, this and this.

rich guai lou hands out card

Deal done in 30 seconds. Each game going for RM300. 4 x Rm300 = RM1200

(This same kuai lou has bought over 10 psps from this shop)

Situation 2

Rich arab guy with body guard comes in and proceeds to look at gameboys
Ask one of the staff to open the glass window where all the hundreds-in-one games are.

Each of the games are going for around 200-300+ ringgit.

Arab guy picks them off the shelf like they were oranges in a supermarket and grabs a few GBASP Brighter and Micros as well.

Arab guy : Ill take all of these

Salesperson : The total is RM42xx

Arab guy : Make it RM4000 and ill take all.

Salesperson : OK

Deal done in 1 hour coz of the time needed to pack the games...around 10-20 games and 1 Micro and forgot how many GBASP Brighters

Situation 3

Japanese family comes to shop with kids each holding their own handheld console to buy pokemon cards

Japanese father : What is this?

Salesperson : This is the newest Gameboy Micro.

Salesperson proceeds to say 1 or 2 lines about the Micro.

Japanese father calls kids over and shows them.

Japanese father : I'll take 3, 2 silver and 1 purple. Ill pay cash for the pokemon cards. EDIT : I remember wrong. He paid cash for all.

Each Micro going for around 600-700 that time...cant remember. Kids bought 300 bucks worth of pokemon cards and boxes.

Deal done in less than half an hour.

Compared these to local customers who will nag u for minutes just to get a discount.

EDIT : I just remembered a good local situation 4

Situation 4

Local guys walks in and asks price of WoW starter

Local : How much is the WoW starter?

Salesperson : RM220 (Or something like that. Cant remember)

Local : Wah, ppl selling RM170 only at blahblahblahplace. Can discount ah? Discount la...RM170 i give u now.

Salesperson : Fixed price. U go blahblahblahplace and buy la.

Local walks away

A few moments later

Local walks back

Local : OKla..RM220 la..give me one

Salesperson : Out of stock

Local : Whats those WoW starters behind u then?

Salesperson : Those one all my customers have reserved already. (Which was not that case. U can guess what happened)

During that time most places were out of stock for WoW edi.

Local walks away empty handed

This post has been edited by awh85: Aug 16 2006, 01:58 AM

all kisah benar, i edited the post coz added the last situation inside - the local story