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On Sunday, I bought a Philips Blu Ray player for a good friend as a housewarming gift. I got it from Courts near HDB Hub in Toa Payoh. I bought it because it was such a good deal. Listen to this: usually $299, it was going for $239! Also, they threw in a free HDMI cable and 2 free Blu Ray titles!
I got my Sony Blu Ray player just weeks ago at Best Denki in Vivo City for $299 and I had to pay $99 for a HDMI cable! I also had to spend more money buying a few Blu Ray titles at MJ Multimedia to start me off. Fortunately, MJ was having a GSS offer at $70 for two titles but it would still come to a total of $299 + $99 + $70 = S$ 468 to get the same deal as offered by Philips in Courts! It's a $229 savings!
Now, here is the issue: the free Blu Ray titles must be collected from Philips HQ in Toa Payoh Lorong 1. They were not available in Courts. The posters in Courts showed Wolverine, UP and a couple of other titles. The salespeople told me that my friend has to bring along the receipt and his IC to choose the titles of his choice. I dutifully conveyed the message when I gave the player to my friend. This was on Sunday.
This evening, my friend went to Philips HQ and they told him that only Night at the Museum 2 and UP are available. Initially, I thought that the other titles were fully redeemed. My friend told me he was informed that only these two titles are available all along!!! This is a clear case of misrepresentation!!! I am so upset but my friend took it quite well and told me not to be angry. Grrr!!!
If anyone from Philips HQ in Singapore is reading this, you guys are lucky I was not with my friend when he went to collect the discs. I would have given you guys a piece of my mind!!!
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