Incredulously Higher Laptop Price

This is actually my response in lowyat.net (lyn) on a complaint made by a buyer who bought a laptop for RM4900 at a kiosk but later found out that the laptop was sold at RM3588 elsewhere. That is RM1312 difference.


"i went 2 evernew it solution n brought an asus m51vr laptop on 20 july for RM4900, but at the beginning i was looking for an acer 6920g, 1 of the evernew sales supervisor name lee recommend me purchase the asus m51vr n bluff this laptop is the latest n more powerful than the acer 6920g!!!!!!! after he bluff me how powerful is it, he told me that thay r having an exchange policy that allow me to change another laptop if i`m not satisfy with the 1 i purchase within 1 month!!! this is 1 of the main reason makes me to buy laptop with them!!!! after that i test it at home, what he said the latest is true but powerful is a naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cant even play devil may cry4!!!!!

i sent warrenty for the dvd rom problem after 3 days, but at time i felt satisfy because they sattle my proble in only 3 hr. but when i went 2 pc fair yesterday i found out that they a selling asus m51vr at only RM3588 WITH worth 800++ free gift!!!

i stun there for a few sec n after that i quickly start calling the sales person n he gives me a bunch of excuses to not let me exchange to another model with lower price also!!!!

i'll do further action to this company if they dont gine me a reasonable feedback.

every brothers n sisters please be aware with the sales supervisor name "LEE" in evernew IT solution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

My reply:

This scenario happens. A lot of kiosks sell laptop way above standard lowyat price. Some kiosks were selling HP TX2032 for RM3'999 tho the price was alredi reduced to RM2799 to RM3099. Now they are selling HP DV3029 for RM3'999 tho the price now is RM3499.

This happens bcoz they buy the units from other resellers themselves at roughly consumer prices say RM3'400 or RM3'450 for the DV3029. They make RM500 profit while other shops make around only RM50-RM200 usually.

This is possible due to the fact that all they pay is for the spot and some cabinets. Get some units for demo which later they could sell for demo price or worst, as a apparent new unit. They don't have ready stock, if customer want, they get from reseller, say, Sri Computers.

The risk is kept at minimum. All they need to thrive is the ppl who don't actually know about laptop pricing. I seen a lot of Malay girls fell into this group.

I won't say their promoting skill is good as most of the promoters are quite young, worst, they don't even understand what they talking about. Try pulling their leg by asking about Puma Platform, the most possible answer u get is 'AMD has two processors only: athlon and turion', worse, they still trapped in the belief that Centrino is a Processor (instead of Platform), they even still believe firmly that Core2Duo with Broadcom Wifi is still Centrino.

Last 2 days, there was an AP set HP Pavilion DV2000 special verve edition in 1 of the kiosk. It got both Core2Duo and Pentium Dual Core stickers on it.
I'm sure some of u noticed this. It has only Intel Integrated graphic chip. The price was RM5'999 which took me aback. The promoter simply said 'this is different, special edition'.

If u wanna buy laptop, try to avoid the kiosk unless ur a lowyat 'regular'. I bought 2nd hand Fujitsu S2210 (that time cost RM4k) for RM1750. Very like new. Full set.

Yeah, if ur a regular surveyor, u cud get lucky from these kiosks.