Encounter #1 today

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Yes, I went out with a friend of mine, David (I prefer to call him dave) to Sim Lim Square today, and bought my scanner. But really I have to comment this: Singapore had bad sales service;

When I went to shop#1, the shop tender directed me to another counter for questions regarding scanners, so I approached the guy at the other counter. He quoted me the price of the two scanners which appeal to me at first. I went off to a side, still undecisive to buy it. So, I decided to ask for the price of other model of scanners from cannon too.

I went back to the same guy after he had attended to a customer. He frowned and fustratedly told me to approach the people from Cannon, who were separated by a stack of boxes, behind him. My friend and I walked up to them and asked for the price, out of three of them, one lady, reluctantly responded to our request. She walked off and returned shortly, quoted us the price and went back to her place where she was earlier. No one cares about promoting sales. I'm disgusted by their attitude. "Let's go to another shop~" I said to dave.

The second shop had too few models to choose from, even though the two lady salesgirls were nice, trying hard to cater to our requests. So, we moved on.

We came to a shop#3, where there was a fat-looking uncle resting his weight on one leg, and shaking the other. We saw the models available in the shop. We asked for the price, and he quoted me $189, which the shop#1 was $10 cheaper.

I said," Nah, don't want."
He heard it, without hesitating quoted me $179, 10 bucks lower for LIDE 30 Cannon scanner (slim).

"Now, we are talking." I thought to myself.
I asked him for the non-slim model, he quoted $139 to me. Well not bad, after comparing both specifications. I asked the man to show it to me then.
"Well, how?" asked the man.

I was undecisive again, and I asked , " What advice would you give for buying scanner?"
He simply pointed out to me: 1) slim or non-slim scanner will always be displayed at ur home.
2) they take up same amount of surface area, just a matter of
thicker by a few cm.
3) Since I told him I'm a window XP user,
hack care about the Macintosh
compatiblility and just buy the non-slim one, since it's cheaper.

He stated his points clearly, Dave and I went impressed. I gave him the deal, and bought the scanner from him. It was clearly shown that this man was interested to showing us around and giving his opinion to his customers (though he got a guai lan face lol). He made his effort, I gave him the deal, full stop. I just can't stand the way Shop#1 do their business.

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