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Request for Sticky: Beware!!! Yeow Tat Trading Enterprises, Lucky Plaza noblewolf May 8th, 09, 11:09 PM #1 (permalink)
It all started when I asked for a cheap and slim phone comfortable for me to use on a construction site. I asked for a Sony Ericsson w800i.. I asked for a silver one and he said he has one on their other stall. He said he have to give the payment to them in order to pull out the silver unit. And asked for my passport to be registered to me. He also asked if I want to update the software, (can be update thru SEUS for free..) so I asked immediately.. "Is it free?" he said "Of course!".. so I gave it a go. Then left..

Here was my mistake:
1. I gave my $200.
2. I gave my passport.

When he came back, he said, no more silver on stock and that he already registered my name. I asked for refund, he said no more refund since my name is already registered. That is where everything heated up. Gave me few phone options which prices are insanely high! So I said, okay lah, I will get the black one.. Left again..

When he got back, he is charging me $570.. $190 for the phone, $380 for the SW update. I said this is bullshit! Im calling my friend and Im about to ask him to call a police.. but he said, police can come hours after his buddies can drag me out of Lucky Plaza. Some more, if that happened, forget about my passport. (Im worried about my Maldivian expat status in my passport that costed me a fortune)..

I said, never mind.. I will pay. When I tried the phone.. "NO NETWORK".. and the phone given to me is no longer the new phone presented earlier! I said it's not working.. he said.. I cannot refund. And I cannot go outside the building in good shape if I wont pay the balance. He told me to just get other merchandise "OF THE SAME VALUE".. so i said, I'll just get a bluetooth headset and another phone.. BUT, THE BLUETOOTH HEADSET ALONE COSTED $570 ALREADY, SAME HEADSET I BOUGHT FOR $80 IN IMM LAST NOVEMBER, 2008!

Experience is indeed a teacher that charges insanely high tuition fees. So I will share to everybody. Let me pay for the tuition myself.. my treat for the whole class!


 
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shmuckerz May 8th, 09, 11:16 PM #2 (permalink)
sometimes its easier to pay abit more at an authorized dealer...
and i reckon if a PHONE shop is asking for your passport, its basically like asking for trouble.
(never had a singtel or nokia shop ask me for a passport whilst purchasing a phone.)
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noblewolf May 8th, 09, 11:26 PM #3 (permalink)
i used to buy phones there before.. never again.
 
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kimietw May 8th, 09, 11:34 PM #4 (permalink)
Black shop
Thanks for the good lesson up up
 
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sted. May 8th, 09, 11:40 PM #5 (permalink)
buying stuffs from there like extortion money
 
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wyetuck88 May 8th, 09, 11:43 PM #6 (permalink)
$570 for a w800i is insane....you should make a police report.


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Milleniamania May 9th, 09, 12:01 AM #7 (permalink)
This sounds like a ridiculous story, if the shop dealers are threatening to withhold ur passport, this is already a criminal act and extortion of money as well, which is more than enough for you to get the cops over.

If you really want something to be done to these shop dealers, why bother to use the forum here to spread the message? Just call the Newpaper hotline and get them to publicise your plight and the story about this shop.

I do not see any reason why you are withholding back and allowing these to happen without doing anything, unless you urself have done something wrong or illegal to be afraid of getting the cops involved.
 
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noblewolf May 9th, 09, 12:06 AM #8 (permalink)
bro.. look closely.. it's not even w800i.. it's a jabra bluetooth headset that sells $80 in IMM!

police?

will i get my money back if i report to police? or just a waste of time? a chinese cockroach cut my boss's neck in 2007 using a checquered knife. he almost died that day he was struggling for his dear life when i entered his office.. police kept on calling us when that happened trying their best to find the cockroach..

...in our backyard!

milleniamania.. i am using this forum to let as many as i can know about this.. and wont do same shit again.. i am not doing anything illegal here.. i am not an illegal alien here.. i work in a construction firm and i am in-charge of our overall overseas projects.

when in rome, do what romans do. when in singapore.. ehermmm.. what i meant is.. if i did what you want me to do.. what's my guranttee that the asshole wont get back to me? for $570? that's just money.. i can still earn that amount.. i just want to let everyone knew who and where to prevent when buying phones. if you doesn't find that noble enough.. go and try yourself.. you can arrange an entrapment team and we will all be very thankful to you..
 
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Turtle76 May 9th, 09, 12:23 AM #9 (permalink)
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bro.. look closely.. it's not even w800i.. it's a jabra bluetooth headset that sells $80 in IMM!

police?

will i get my money back if i report to police? or just a waste of time? a chinese cockroach cut my boss's neck in 2007 using a checquered knife. he almost died that day he was struggling for his dear life when i entered his office.. police kept on calling us when that happened trying their best to find the cockroach..

...in our backyard!
If u r afraid of trouble and choose to keep quiet, the gangsters there will just get bolder and continue harm other unknowing victims, spoiling Singapore's reputation. Since u r already sharing your story here to help others, y not go a bit further by reporting them to police and see them go to jail? Let everybody know that we consumers are not idiots and definitely not vegetable heads waiting to be chopped by hooligan traders. Even if u may not get your money back, justice at least has been served.

If the police chose to sleep on their job and do nothing conclusive, media is your best weapon. Stomp, ST, whatever can generate unbelievable results. The recent AWARE incident is the best example...
 
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johnnyistoogood May 9th, 09, 12:47 AM #10 (permalink)
LLST........
Bargaining is welcomed, but will be ignored...
 
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thomasyeow May 9th, 09, 01:23 AM #11 (permalink)
Report to CASE. At least, everyone will be warned of this BLACK shop.
 
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sabe May 9th, 09, 01:29 AM #12 (permalink)
Blow it up, go to the papers, u will get your money back.

Call the newpaper -> 1800-733-4455
 
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Mobile_Crazy May 9th, 09, 02:28 AM #13 (permalink)
make police complaint...

go case.
 
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coldcar May 9th, 09, 11:20 AM #14 (permalink)
Think maybe you should STOMP it rather than posting here. Coz I don't think forumers here will go Lucky Plaza to buy electronics. The shops there survive by chopping and bleeding the buyers, especially the tourists and they know how to beat the laws better than you do....
 
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Embrace May 9th, 09, 11:23 AM #15 (permalink)
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Blow it up, go to the papers, u will get your money back.

Call the newpaper -> 1800-733-4455
GOGOGO~~~

make an example out of this black shop~ !

on a side note, it saddens me to see such shops exist in singapore, especially those in SLS conning innocent tourist, residents and especially students~

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