Swim With Me

Well as per most tour, the guide will deviate from iternary and divert you to certain setup to buy certain home product . I went through LIN ZHI, ROYAL JELLY and JADE STATUE. They will guide every one to a room and do a presentation on their product after which they will allocate their sales staff to hoover around you and insist that you purchase their product at a special price (oh cheap only $1,000 over only) They even encourage you to use your card( as though  we no need to pay later) The best tactic was on the JADE STATUE( shape of a lion) This outlet have a inhouse fortune teller claiming that this statue (if you buy will bring you wealth) . First they claim to “help” you calculate your chinese character of your name and using a formula they predict your fortune(quite accurate though) But they claim to enhance your luck you have to buy the statue. Price: S$1,000 to S$1,500.

Me: I am sorry it is out of my budget.

They: But we calculated for you that it will bring you luck.

Me: Sorry, it really is out of my budget.

They: You can use card you know.

Me: Yes, use card still must pay right. You have any lower price.

They: Ok, (show me another statue) this is about $800.

Me: No, still to ex.

Well in the end I only bought a small statue(about $100) . They were not very happy though. But when I look around it seems that they created a pressure cooker enviroment with alot of cheering when sales was closed(esp when some of my friend bought a few of  the big statue) Thus you would feel “left out” if you do not buy thier product. My advise to all if ever in this type of scenario. stand your ground and tell them you have no budget or no card to swipe. No need to pai seh with these people. Or else you end up bringing items back home and asking yourself why did I buy them?