Will The Real CD Pirate, Please Stand Up...
Sigh. Times are hard. Getting a pirated CD is harder. The days when you can find pirates throughout AMK is long gone. You see, pirates are a poor man's best friend. They sell their products at so-freaking low prices that you sometimes pity for them. You could say they are performing charity, for the profit they earn from each CD is really peanuts. And most likely they'd donate the proceedings to NKF, at least from the looks of their faces.
But why have they all disappeared. I could only offer one reason. Poor services. As much as I would like to adore these kind-hearted souls, I must admit their services are just not there. You go into Pirated CD Pte Ltd hoping to get a wide array of products that you can have access to easily, only to get disappointed. Their products are arranged in a weird manner. Their salesmen are even weirder. I can't explain weird because you have to see it for yourself. You asked, "How do you install this CD, uncle? Is my system suitable to play?" He would reply, "One CD for $6, three for $15. Exchangable within 7 days. And regarding your question, do I look like a software engineer to you?" Well, he certainly doesn't have the looks, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to answer my question!!
Anyway, this is how it goes. You see, charity organizations can't have poor services. The service feedback forms that they gave us to fill up after every purchase only cause their downfalls. Customers like us just couldn't take poor services. And how we regretted our decisions. There is hardly a stall for us to patronise now. Sad customers like me could only lament on our blogs. Poor us only got ourselves poorer.
So on this day, I was once again walking along the premises of AMK, looking for the now soon-to-be-extinct pirates. Well, there is none apparently, or else I won't be writing this entry. So in the end, I found myself shopping in Guardian, for hell reason I do not know. HA. But anyway, I chanced upon this cute little orb which I reckoned shouldn't be in Guardian for some reason. The reason which I do not know, but heck, curious me decided to look at the price tag. I reached for it...
...but it stood there, unmoved. I looked at the salesgirls and they nervously looked elsewhere. "Something's amiss", I thought. I decided to turn it sideways and ah-ha, strangely enough, the shelf that was supposed to contain the Gatsby products flipped over several times to reveal a small pin-hole which I decided at that time, must be some voice input device.
Another look at the salesgirls and they are panicking. But still, no actions were taken against me. I put my mouth near the pin hole and whispered the famous tune, "Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby!!" Sure enough, the entire Gatsby shelves collapsed, rather silently, to reveal a secret door!!
A lesser man would have ran off should he collapsed the entire Gatsby shelves. But not dPx. I stepped in, and a glither blinded me momentarily. "Welcome!!" I looked around. It was the pirates!! I looked around me frantically and I found myself surrounded by nicely designed CD racks with appropriate titles and genres. The dream shop, I thought. All the while, I concluded that they have closedown. Hell no, they are rebuilding in the dungeons of Guardian, part-franchise of the Gatsby network!!
Being the first customer to experience this new shopping experience, I decided to do the still-existing customer survey forms after finishing my purchases. 5-Star was the rating I gave. I could have given 6 or 7 stars if there was such an option. But no, it stopped at 5, so I could only give 5. The point here is that I would have given more if I could. Okay, you got that point?
Why 5, you asked. Not only are the products better arranged, they have courteous and knowledgable salesmen that greeted my concerns as if they were his. "I think I would have a problem playing the game," and the salesman would frown and think so hard that you thought my problem is going to end his world.
"I tell you what, I shall accompany you to your home and install it for free,"
"My oh my, you shouldn't have!!"
"No, my friend. This is the least I could do for you. We run a charity here and maybe you could help by donating to the NKF fundbox behind you."
Of course I could only oblige. I am getting cheap stuff while doing charity at the same time. Hell am I privileged to be in the same league as the pirates. If only there were more pirates, I thought. But they are a celebrated class of people in this society. Just as there could only be one dPx, there would only be one group of excellent pirates.
"Thanks for the services, guys. You rocks!!"
But why have they all disappeared. I could only offer one reason. Poor services. As much as I would like to adore these kind-hearted souls, I must admit their services are just not there. You go into Pirated CD Pte Ltd hoping to get a wide array of products that you can have access to easily, only to get disappointed. Their products are arranged in a weird manner. Their salesmen are even weirder. I can't explain weird because you have to see it for yourself. You asked, "How do you install this CD, uncle? Is my system suitable to play?" He would reply, "One CD for $6, three for $15. Exchangable within 7 days. And regarding your question, do I look like a software engineer to you?" Well, he certainly doesn't have the looks, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to answer my question!!
Anyway, this is how it goes. You see, charity organizations can't have poor services. The service feedback forms that they gave us to fill up after every purchase only cause their downfalls. Customers like us just couldn't take poor services. And how we regretted our decisions. There is hardly a stall for us to patronise now. Sad customers like me could only lament on our blogs. Poor us only got ourselves poorer.
So on this day, I was once again walking along the premises of AMK, looking for the now soon-to-be-extinct pirates. Well, there is none apparently, or else I won't be writing this entry. So in the end, I found myself shopping in Guardian, for hell reason I do not know. HA. But anyway, I chanced upon this cute little orb which I reckoned shouldn't be in Guardian for some reason. The reason which I do not know, but heck, curious me decided to look at the price tag. I reached for it...
...but it stood there, unmoved. I looked at the salesgirls and they nervously looked elsewhere. "Something's amiss", I thought. I decided to turn it sideways and ah-ha, strangely enough, the shelf that was supposed to contain the Gatsby products flipped over several times to reveal a small pin-hole which I decided at that time, must be some voice input device.
Another look at the salesgirls and they are panicking. But still, no actions were taken against me. I put my mouth near the pin hole and whispered the famous tune, "Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby!!" Sure enough, the entire Gatsby shelves collapsed, rather silently, to reveal a secret door!!
A lesser man would have ran off should he collapsed the entire Gatsby shelves. But not dPx. I stepped in, and a glither blinded me momentarily. "Welcome!!" I looked around. It was the pirates!! I looked around me frantically and I found myself surrounded by nicely designed CD racks with appropriate titles and genres. The dream shop, I thought. All the while, I concluded that they have closedown. Hell no, they are rebuilding in the dungeons of Guardian, part-franchise of the Gatsby network!!
Being the first customer to experience this new shopping experience, I decided to do the still-existing customer survey forms after finishing my purchases. 5-Star was the rating I gave. I could have given 6 or 7 stars if there was such an option. But no, it stopped at 5, so I could only give 5. The point here is that I would have given more if I could. Okay, you got that point?
Why 5, you asked. Not only are the products better arranged, they have courteous and knowledgable salesmen that greeted my concerns as if they were his. "I think I would have a problem playing the game," and the salesman would frown and think so hard that you thought my problem is going to end his world.
"I tell you what, I shall accompany you to your home and install it for free,"
"My oh my, you shouldn't have!!"
"No, my friend. This is the least I could do for you. We run a charity here and maybe you could help by donating to the NKF fundbox behind you."
Of course I could only oblige. I am getting cheap stuff while doing charity at the same time. Hell am I privileged to be in the same league as the pirates. If only there were more pirates, I thought. But they are a celebrated class of people in this society. Just as there could only be one dPx, there would only be one group of excellent pirates.
"Thanks for the services, guys. You rocks!!"
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