I found this closed thread
http://sgforums.com/forums/1359/topics/343642 made by people that
have been scammed in sim lim by this particular phone shop. I have
just experienced the same, and thought I'd share it.
Very much like one story in the thread above, I buy one cordless
phone, they give me the receipt, and then... they just want to show
me that the phone is not that good, maybe I buy a better one. The
guy sets the phone up there, and then calls some free dial number,
I listen to some answering machine, there is some background noise,
but not too bad, I say it's fine. Then, the guys says the phone is
also breaking all the time, calls the phone from his mobile and
slowly counts from 1 to 12. there are 3 or 4 one second breaks,
some numbers drop out completely, supposedly because of the poor
quality of the phone. bullshyte, the answering machine I heard
before was not breaking out at all! the guy was pressing the mute
button on his mobile phone (I suspect he was doing the same in the
other story as well, to prove that the cordless phone doesnt work
beyond 5 meters). no damn cordless phone in this day and age, not
even the cheapest, has so many brealks in 20 seconds and from 50 cm
of the cordless receiver, not even the worst of the worst. and this
was a panasonic too. this was a carefully coreographed and
well rehearsed scam.
of course, I only realized this after I left the shop... bought
a more expensive one from these crooks, which I didn't need. not
going to take it back after reading what others have gone through
trying that. I wouldn't mind having my money back, but more
importantly, can't just leave these crooks pretend to do business.
any suggestions, please let me know guys. will try consumer
protection monday, don't know what else is there to try.
