LG & Nokia Sale: The Aftermath

major epic fail.
eto kakauwi ko lang. i was there as early as 8am. i hope the LG employees burn in hell. ’nuff said.

^^
after the LG Optimus One Sale – SM Megamall Cyberzone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMqIu00TIIk

Maraming nakapila na kahit hindi pa bukas ang mall. Yung iba ginamit ang Fitness First ID, yung iba nagsabi pupunta sa STI. Ako dumating ako ng 9:30AM pero hindi pa din ako nakakuha ng unit.

anong meron? kakagising ko lang :)

Fortunately my sister was able to buy a nokia c6. she went all the way from the province. good job sis. kya lang isang unit lang nbili. its for my lil sis. thanks sir abe.

the whole thing was advertisement… android awareness…

dumating ako dun sa Megamall bago pa nagbukas yung mall, i decided to take my car and dun na ako sa parking entrance dumaan since it’ll be closer sa LG store. At around 10am, the guards let us in and everyone from the gates were running. By the time we got to the Nokia and LG shops, there were already 2 lines of around 30-40+ people. We had no idea which line was for LG or Nokia so nagtanong pa kami. I realized that those people who were lined up ahead of us were already inside the mall even before the mall hours since relaxed na sila and hindi tumakbo like all of who waited at the entrance. We tried to get clear instructions from the people from LG but we were just given vague information on how they will distribute the units. Hell, they can’t even give us an idea of how many units they have ready for the sale. I mean every LG personnel there should at least have an idea. Pero wala, pinaasa lang nila mga tao and sobrang disorganized. There were so many things they could have done to prevent the chaos. The reaction from sites and forums should have already given them idea that hundreds of consumers are planning to get units. i think i was 100th dun sa pila but from the time i got there up until 3pm, hindi gumalaw yung line. they failed big time!

LG = LOKOHAN AT G@GUHAN!!!!

A lot of angry people O_O

But I guess we can’t blame them. LG wanted publicity, and they got it. Although, it’s more of bad than good, still publicity tho’. XD

FAIL

2 hours NAKAPILA ?

sna hnd na lang sila nag paasa ..

na sikip pa sila ng mall

LG + SM = EPIC FAIL!

@daddyjoey;

Agreed.
“One Day, One Hour, One Big Joke!!!”

it was purely marketing bullshit for lg. from the start they know lots of people will line up. but hey what they do? they let people go there to line up and then prepare one cashier for hundreds of people? actually i depended on what the lg rep. told you. anyway, i hope this will never happen again. it’s better in nokia store, maaga they distributed stubs to their patrons. those people who were not given the stub just left.

Abe, you forgot to mention that in Megamall there were already people in the line even before the Mall officially opened.

The guards themselves said they’re from Fitness First and employees from their other tenants.

EPIC FAIL.

People are shouting in Megamall LG event “Boycott LG” and “LG means ‘Lg G@g0′”. Other people were also hitting on Google Android. That’s the sad reality, Android’s image was also hurt because of LG’s epic failure.

Oh btw, I just remembered, other people read LG’s super sale in tabloids and heard it in radios. So why? Why do that when the sale is only 1 hour; [2] their stores can only accomodate a limited number of people; and [3] they will only come out with a limited number of units?

Contrary to your previous post about what LG said that they did not impose any limit to the units, the people from LG Megamall said it themselves = 50. And people are aware themselves that there will be only 50.

No one’s leaving because they want to fight for it vs. the cheaters.

There are so many stories, may nag-away pa nga because an LG employee wants some group of guys to fill-up some paper but the other people there are united in telling that LG employee that those group of guys were never there before. And the LG employee still insisted that these mysterious guys to sign-up.

So what was that all about? Kamag anak? Kaibigan? Favoritism?

I pity those na nadapa, nauntog, nalalag sa escalator nung nagbukas ang mall _officially_, only to find out mahaba na pila sa LG Megamall.

I was at SM North here’s my blow by blow account
9:30am arrived at SM North Annex, guard told people to line up. This is on the ground floor entrance
10:00am opening, although may pila, biglang binago ng guard meron mga nakasinggit sa harap palamang. Tapos pinabreak ang pila, ayun dumami na naman ang mga nakasinngit.

10:05am 4th floor nakapila malapit sa LG Store near the escalator. Dito pa lamang naririnig ko na from the chatter ng mga nakapila na di naadvise ng LG ang guards, no coordination, so nagkaroon ng dalawang pila.

10:45am Someone had a brilliant idea to “fix” the line. Once there was movement, people from our line and the other line started a mad dash. Where there was a line became a lump of people. I and most of the people in the line was shocked with this turn of events. I counted like i was the 35th person in line and then i was not in a matter of seconds.

10:50 Approached one of the guards and asked who was his commanding officer. I gave him a piece of my mind and told him this was not how to handle crowd control. Pasalamat kayo walang nasakatan,otherwise kayo ang unang masisisi since mall security and crowd control is your job. You also not move people with out the proper barricades or even ropes to organize the people. Also you should have identified which ones were part of the line and cleared the area before starting to move people and this should be in a coordinated effort.

11:00am Watched the sea of people bite to and claw their way thru the sea of people to come first in line. Guards started segragating the lump into 4 small lumps. After this I shook my head in disbelief and just went home. Waiting for a better organized promo from the other manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericson and probably Cherry. For sure they would have learned from the what history will now call the LG 50% Optimus One Sale Fiasco.

There were a lot of things that aggravated the situation from the people trying to get the phone whom do not want to in line, to mall security that should have markers already upon opening the mall where the people should line up, most imporatantly the organizer, whom did not organize anything, LG.

A lot of people, including me is pissed at LG. Looks like their promo backfired rather than help their image.

GALIT BA KAYO SA LG???????????? WRITE HATE,VIOLENT REACTIONS AT THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE!

http://www.facebook.com/mylifesgoodph

actually now that i think about it this may have been a good thing that i didn’t get the phone. a lot of phones look good spec-wise but fall short on actual performance. i may have saved myself some money.

i think i will just wait until sir abe does a proper review of the phone(s) first before deciding what android i will be buying.

this whole experience still leaves a bad taste on my mouth for LG and Nokia (the company/pr dept) though. someone should have put more thought on the promo and its organization.

lets officially boycott all LG products, kick them out of the Philippines, we don’t need these @!#$%^&*(()company that fools and take advantage of consumers for publicity,

think of what they did, do you expect a good after sale, support & customer service from them, sa SALE & PROMO palang they try to fool, trick you, what more when you need them for support & service.

haha, magulo ung event, madaming tao di pa bukas ung mall marami nang pumipila sa labas. hahaha

Go HTC and Samsung hahahah.

I was there 10:15 a.m. and the line was already long WOW! both in Nokia and L.G. (I was there to get a copy of #black ops. @Itech.)

that’s just one part of the line. i’ll upload more photos later.

One Day, One Hour, One Big Joke!!!

Andaming mga pulubing aso ang nakapila. Solid. Ampapangit nila. Lalo na ung mga babae.

sabi ko na nga ba.. chaos ang mangyare. :))

Sorry, I already posted my experience dun sa Sale Vote (bago lang kasi to >_<). Anyhow, repost na lang:

SALE REPORT: My friend and I arrived sa Megamall at around 11am (almost 12) at nagulat kami na yung pila is stemming from the 4th floor all the way to the 1st. That’s for both LG and Nokia.

Right there and then, we knew it was hopeless (for us at the very least).

I’m guessing that things ended up badly there. Before we ended our shopping spree (yeah, namili na lang kami ng mga “kailangan” namin), 30 minutes before 3pm, we decided to check how things were working out. Tapos nakita namin that there were still lines hanggang sa baba. Unless of course if they decided to extend the sale. Pero we wouldn’t know anything about that kasi nga umalis na kami.

Oh well, ganun talaga. It’s really not intended for everyone. I ended up buying a sturdy bag instead (and I’m loving it. Hehe).

Anyhow, congrats sa mga nakabili. For the rest, I’m sure this is not the end. May susunod pa yan.