FINALLY. THE PAST FOUR DAYS WERE PLAIN EXHAUSTING but yet fun at the same time because of the people I worked with ^^ and the funny encounters during IT fair HAHA
So I was supposed to be promoting chargers from Energizer but I ended up selling speakers because they needed one person to be doing that. I agreed since you just have to stand there, play some music from your ipod if the customer requests - basically just stone and wait till somebody approaches you. It's good in a way that I wouldn't be ignored, the customer approaches me instead of the other way round :)
Sold the most speakers on Saturday, about 35-6. We are supposed to take down the number of products we sold because there'll be commission and I remember on the second day, I wrote down descriptions of the customers on a piece of paper. Quite a lot of old men bought speakers from me.
Old people are really funny. I remember this one old man who stood before me, counting two dollar notes one by one. He turned to explain to me what he was doing when he realized I was looking at him.
"I'm.... counting.. how.. many... two dollar...notes.. I have...... to get the.... adapter... one.....two....three...." He took quite some time and he counted till 9 and he bought the adapter.
Some people don't even test the sound quality of the speakers before they buy whereas there are the some who just need more assurance and they'll ask you to test the speakers in the box before they will buy it from you. There was this group of three yesterday who kept bargaining for a lower price. They thought they could reap EOS if they bulk purchase LOL Then I'll ask them "Do I look like the boss to you? The price cannot be any lower!!" Then they got me to ask the person in charge and I brought them some random staff to explain to them. They said something like if I were to give them a lower price, they'll buy 5 from me. But I am in no position to give them a lower price so~ (I don't want to have to pay for the discount I give them)
In the end, they didn't buy because they realized the speakers have no volume control. -.-
The story about the NS men:
Ok, there were these two guys who came to the counter because they wanted to buy speakers to bring to camp or something. So I said it should be fine because there were also two guys who bought one speaker the other day to bring to camp. They asked a lot of questions and talked a lot. Abit too much for customers but it's not like I can ask them to stop talking. They were like.... ok the first few times was funny but then they overdid it IMO. Like, they were helping me to promote the speakers even though they were still thinking if they should buy or not. The two guys just stood at the counter for a very long time until I asked them "ER. YOU GUYS AREN'T GOING TO WALK ABOUT?"
Then they asked me if I have a phone (-.- er, will you believe if I said I don't have one?) and I had my phone on the counter. The two guys took my phone and called themselves. I didn't even know they saved their numbers in my phone, with their names. *Just plain stunned* Because I wouldn't think anyone will do something like this to a random stranger. Then one of them sent me a message to ask if I have FB (which I didn't reply) and then a message to tell me who is A and who is B, describing themseleves (which I didn't reply too). Then the other guy also sent me a message at night to ask how many speakers I sold (and I didn't reply again). At 11 plus or 12 midnight, they started to call me. BOTH OF THEM. I didn't pick up.
The next day, one of them turned up at the IT Fair again. He told his friend (not the guy he was with yesterday) "Woah this one selling speakers lied to me lah" I don't know why he had to say what he did because I'm just selling the speakers and I'm not responsible for the sound quality or whatever. If you think it's not good enough then you can choose to not buy but they stood there, thinking if they should buy speakers then say I lied to them WTF. I remember I kept telling them "Aiya whatever. You can choose to not buy." because it was getting on my nerves. Like they kept comparing to 7-ll, saying how the speakers there are similar and cheaper. THEN GET IT FROM THERE LAH DUDE. *Rolls eyes*
I really got a shock when one of them appeared yesterday (and he stopped by the booth TWICE). My friend said the guy's big enough to throw me to somewhere far away LOL
That's probably the one negative part about IT Fair - difficult customers.
Another part will be when your superior makes things difficult for you. But not THAT MUCH so it was still pretty tolerable. Yesterday, Jimmy wore this shirt "I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter" I thought it was pretty funny. He always debriefs us after every day of the IT Fair and yesterday, I can't remember what question he asked but I heard somebody read out the words on his shirt. Totally laughed out loud. HAHAH
Then there was this guy who worked at the booth opposite me yesterday. I saw him trying to wave to me but he waved so fast I don't know if I'm supposed to know he's waving to me. He asked to add me on FB after everything. I had that feeling he's younger than me and yes, I'm right.....
omg......... I FEEL DAMN OLD.
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