Recently received a call from a studio claiming that they are doing a promotion for their opening. They also promised that there is no hidden cost and that they are inviting us (the Family) for a photo shot just to "make known" their studio. As per the conversation, they will be giving us 2 edited shots and the whole session will take about 2 - 3 hours. Of course if you like the rest of the photos you will have to purchase them. Sound fair! So we went...
After about 3 hours of session, they brought us to another room to choose the photo we like. So we choose, then came the "VIP talk". The package goes like this, if you take up the package either in full payment or instalment you can enjoy: yearly events shots (birthday parties), one free album (in the size you chose according to your package fee), free make-up course and also yearly studio shots with CDrom. Maybe there are more on list but I think my ears got blocked half way. I personally felt cheated and I not too sure about how the rest of you felt. Does it sound like a scram? Or is it really a scram?
Maybe I am being too naive to believe in such "good" thing. BUT good thing did happened before and that's why I believe...
Probably 2 months back, I received a call from a cleaning company claiming that they have been in the industry for 20 years and would like to demo their dust mite vacuum cleaner. 1st impression, NO LAH!!! However after hearing them out, I decided to try them out. WHY? Because they mentioned: how long it will take, it's a free demo to introduce the vacuum cleaner, people have bought the vacuum cleaner with warranty of 10 years and the price (mouth wide opened and I stopped her. TOO expensive!) but she continued to say that they have per session service. SO? she mentioned that just give it a try, they understand that S$4,000 for a vacuum cleaner is a bit hard to swallow but they wish that we can consider their per time service as well. The sale man whom came on that day was not pushy and we have also decided to hire them to come once a year to spring clean before CNY.
All in all, there are times where we will meet with ad hoc scram but not all advertising should be condemned.
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