EXTRA BY A HUNDRED

after 2 weeks of selling products at subang parade, i earned rm150 (rm50 from model)!!! nothing much but is enough for this month till chinese new year comes. :) candy and hanisah did pay a visit but didnt buy anything. another form 4(08) boy (to ryan, he is the skinny boy from lek hung who joined pn chang's bm tuition with u during, standard 5 or 6) which i dont know his name. i also met cindy YONG and family and family'friends which none of you will recognise (except maybe sheng ling's mom. apparantely, one of my father's friend knew sheng's mom). 'the form 4 boy' i mentioned earlier was with his mom and sis when they bought from me a keychain on my first week. on the second week i was back selling, i saw he and his sister were at one of the craft market booth selling children posters. don't know if we insipired them or not but i only took one glance towards them and the sis was standing with one knee on the chair looking around while the bro stared down then looked up with a blurry eyes, my gguess, they are bored. cant blame them. i was very bored too thats why i took a walk around the craft market. i dont think he see me as both our booths were at the end of each sides and ive never seen them walked pass my booth. also, i tink they swicth turn with their mom and grandna in the afternoon so i only seen them once.

here is a few odd customers. as u know, my cousin from the Ng side also sells handmade models in sunway right, only more expensive. well, one day, this lady came to our booth and examinied the mini motorbike. she asked for the price and we gave her rm39. she was shocked to hear that (our expression was that maybe she thinks is too expensive, but wait). she then asked where izit from and we answered from china (which is the truth). she then examined is closer and said "So cheap! I've seen exactly the same one in Sunway for rm59 and is from Vietnam. Is exactly the same. I should have buy here but i bought from there already." and she walked of. fyi, of course is the same! is from the same supplier in china. according to my cousin who once worked there (luckily my family from the Ng side dont read my blog) said that they had a technique of telling people that their products are from places like thailand, vietnam, egypt and other places except china. what a broke down that she didnt buy from us. again fyi, none of the handmade models were sold due to over priced and that lady could have been our only customer for that product!

another product which we sold none would be a fury cat keychain. is rather cute and fluffy (my sister took one home), even if i said so myself. we bought in from kl at rm1.80 only. my mum sponsored us ten. on the previous sunday, me and my cousins set the cat prices at rm5. no one buy at all. so on our last day, the previous sunday, we changed it to rm3 for one. again no one buy. then 1 hour before the closing hour, one british woman accopanied by what i think is an indian-british lady came to our store and loved our car keychains. they bought one. the british woman spotted out cat keychains and begun running her hands onto the soft white fur then asked us, "Is this rabbit's fur?" at first i cant even answered as i myself not so sure. i said no and i think she dont believe me, unless she is an anaimal hater, as she walked of leaving what i think is a face of disgust. i turned to my cousin and said, "Is this rabbit fur?" she seemed equally stunned. when my mom found out no one buy any of the keychain she sponsored she was rather dissapointed. my dad said, "subang people is like that wan. they only wan to buy stuff from people who will rugi. always compared the prices with the supplier." my mom and the cousin jokingly said, "maybe everyone thought is rabbit's fur except us."

we also sell a solar powered keychain for 1-rm4 and 3-rm10. orriginally the cost price is rm4 so we considered rugi but since the cost price is sponsored, we dont care lah. the sales of it is okey. not bad. then there is the young boy and his mom came and looked. the boy said to his mum, "china sell more expensive than here. i didnt buy there. but i dont think i want to buy here." is cheaper and yet he still dont want to buy. i bet if i made it to rm1 he still wont buy.

our best sales would be a rm1 hp keychain. although it is orriginally wave and battery powered (when ur phone rings, the keychain will glow with colours) but since not all is functioning, we never tell the customers about it.

btw, here is a conversation between me (M) and a customer (C) and her daughter (D) as far as i could remember

C: what is this a?
M: this is a mp3, mp4 speaker.
C: how much is this a?
M: the big one is rm10 and the small one rm8
C: rm 10 ONLY. so cheap!
M: whispered* is actually from china
C: China! will it exploded, leak, electricute, burst anot?
M: errrrr.... i dont think so. i personally have a yellow one at home.
C: How long you use?
M: about 3 years (actually, im not so sure)
C: SO LONG! you sure or not. how often you use it?
M: errr (actually is not even mine and now i dont even see it)
C: you sure it wont spoiled after a few weeks?!
M: actually, it depends on how the owner keep it. i personally had kept it quite well and is still functionable (functionable i think).
C: i know, i know. i want to buy this for people and i dont it to spoiled. rm10 ONLY!!! i called my daughter. *she waved her hand and the daughter came* mp3 speaker, rm1o only. Can try?
D: mp3 speaker?
M: *i took the speaker for testing* you see mp3 have a liability of only hear it by yourself and using earphones. by using this speaker, it can act like a radio. *test the sound*
C: okey lah i take 2 big ones. you want anot? *the duaghter nodded* okey one of the small one. what else can u use for?
M: errm... from the box it said i got a usb cable so u can pluck it into computer and television but i personally never try it before.
C: i wan one of these also *handphone sticker* how much?
M: rm33
C: i buy so many thing!
M: err, okeylah, rm30.

thats al. thats is the funniest customer but also the biggest sale i made. btw, my cousin scolded me for reducing the discount and accidently let her walked of with th testing batteries which is not for sale. T.T