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1 Rochor Canal Road, Singapore 188504
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this one of the few shop in Sim Lim that have the good price and the good service. They are all so friendly and the things i buy never give me any problem. I recomend this shop Papilion at #02-12 for this especially if you need the electronic and audio product especially the MP4 and the portable dvd players with the lcd tv screen.
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I read VT shopping before coming to Sim Lim Square, when I should have been reading "Tourist Trap".
I wanted to buy a mobile phone from a reputable shop outside Sim Lim Square, but it was out of stock. So by the time I was walking around in Sim Lim, I already knew what to buy and how much I was willing to spend for it. So this guy quoted a good price lower than my other contact. It turned out it was without the GST!
Anyways, my old phone had been stolen, so needed a replacement. I asked if it was a demo phone, since it was the only unit there. He said it's new. (I later saw photos in the phone taken from inside the shop - showing it was a demo unit). To cut the story short, he not only overcharged on the 2GB memory card I purchased (which my Singaporean friend said I could have gotten a 4GB card), but he conned me. One month later, the phone dies.
Nokia Malaysia won't repair it because it was bought in Singapore. I call the guy up, and he offered to take it to Nokia Singapore, but when he started calling Nokia Malaysia technicians "morons", I decided to bypass him and go straight to Nokia Singapore.
Guess what? Nokia Singapore checked the phone out and said it's not under warranty, implying that I've been conned! For the cost to repair the phone, I might as well buy a new original phone with warranty in Malaysia. So beware! Don't buy from Pixels N Pixels Pte Ltd. It's not worth the savings. It turned out to be a loss. Robbed twice within 2 months! (old phone got stolen, now this!!!)
I sent a complaint to Sim Lim Square to warn them of the retailer but what can they do? I wouldn't be surprised if some other tourist gets ripped off/conned!
And if you don't live in Singapore, buy your Nokia from your home country because Nokia doesn't have international warranty. If it breaks down, whether it's a real phone or not, you have to send it back to Singapore for repairs.
Don't buy anything unless you want to be conned BIG time!
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>>I am here to share a very bad
>>experience about a shop "Mobile
>>Hut" on the second floor of Sim
>>Lim square.
Me, too.
I had also very bad and even sad experience at "Mobile Hut".
This shop's poor feeling should be reflected with Singapore's poor nationality. I expect that Sinpapore becomes to be more developed.
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A small camera and electronic gadget shop on the second floor near the escalator. This shop Bally Photo Trading #02-91/71 with Tel # (65)6333 9160. The Sales person tricked me into buying a camera at a price much higher than its standard retail price making me believe that my first choice was a bad choice. He got my 300 USD and sold me a much cheaper model. For future buyers DO NOT BUY without doing research first. Beware of this store. One day I will get even! Bad Feng Shui for you!
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As mentioned in other tips, Sim Lim Square provides a unique electronics shopping experience. In its 5 stories, buyers can expect to find everything from large network systems, right down to interesting electronic gadgetry.
Prices are great too - most items can be found with a reduction of about a 10-30% as compared to normal retail prices.
However, it is worth noting that a few shops in Sim Lim Square sells imitation or modified goods. Some also tend to increase the prices and deceive the buyer into over-paying for a product.
In my experience, a camera shop, FOTO POINT (#01-47), which is located in a corner of level 1 in the shopping centre, sells modified/imitated products. Though incredibly cheap (and suspective), several of their items are not original, even if the storeowner says so. I would like to warn all buyers, especially foreigners, of such occurrences in the shopping centre that tarnish its name.
I tried buying a canon camera at the shop last week, and was impressed at its prices. However, after a long talk, the store owner began critisizing canon and attempted to push for his own product, which was more expensive. I later found out that the lenses in the canon display set had been modified to produce significantly poorer images to make the house brand seem better.
Another shop, PIXELS N SHUTTERS, sells products at ridiculously high prices, claiming its products to be exclusive.
Though the impact of these shops create a bad reputation for the Sim Lim Square shopping experience, I would like to let readers know that such occurences are rare, and there are only a small handfull of them. But please, do be wary and aware of such places.
I wish all shoppers a pleasant shopping experience.
Regards,
A Sim Lim Regular
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Be very careful of this shop. It quotes you double the price of the retail!
In fact, don't even go to Sim Lim Square when you want to buy electronics. I enter this shop and the seller quoted me the canon flash 430 at $320 which is $100 cheaper than the other. So I thought I will get all my camera needs from him since his flash is the cheapest and I thought his other camera stuff will be cheaper. To save the hassle I decided to get a lense from him.
I decided to get a sigma lense which he said would have cost $1000+ else where. I admit I haven't done much research but before I told him I would like to check other stores first, he already convinced me to buy it at $900 17-70mm sigma lense. Which other stores were only sell for $575 or less. An extremely ridiculous price! Which I only checked after I bought the lense! He was a really crafty sales man! It's almost impossible to walk out of his shop without buying anything. I bought the sigma lense at $900 when it should only cost $575... a nissin flash $300 which should only cost $100+!
BECAREFUL OF THIS SHOP!!!!!
I found someone else who got scammed by this shop.
http://kissthestorm.blogspot.com/2009/04/scam.html Leave a Comment
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Cheating and tricks
Sim Lim - specially on the ground floor you could be easily cheated. Like I followed the instructions of the other member and I decided before hand what model camera I want to buy. I went to the shop and asked for the price. I made the mistake to stay there little longer and to be polite with the salesmen. Then the usual story began (same in Hong Kong by the way only worst): Yes, we will bring it from the store. Just while you wait would you see this one it is even better. And so on and so on. I new the trick but somehow I could not resist when he shoed me how the picture looks with Finepix and how is it with Sony. Sony’s image was not so good and I bought Finepix to find out later that it was overpriced by close to 100 S$ compared to the other shops. All the salesmen although jealous normally would play some conspiracy theory.
Later I did not receive the claimed at Airport GST. Again Singapore is better than Hong Kong with regard of tricking the buyer. In People’s Park many years ago I was looking for a massager and a Chinese woman offered me something small for: How much you want to spend? I said : About 40 and she offered me that thing for 40. Half an hour later I saw her again with the same thing in her hands and for the fun I asked: How much? She said 17. If they find any weakness they will use it. Mustafas’ is better with regard of the fixed prices, big choice but probably not the top models.
Any way each year when I am going there and see them I just remind them how they cheated me in front of their clients.
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Dear All,
Be careful. This is a posting from another forum and I'm posting here to warn the ppl here.
I went to Sim Lim Square on Sunday, 17/06/07 with the intention to purchase a PSP. After scouting for sometimes, my friend and I came to this shop known as Mobile House Electronics Pte Ltd to check on the pricing of the PSP. After much haggling, the sale person offered a standard PSP pack with a 4GB memory stick to us at the price of $420 inclusive of GST, which we eventually bought it.
To our dismay, we realized that there was a missing battery from the pack when we reached home. Hence, I went down to the shop on the following day afternoon, 18/06/07 , Monday to ask for my missing item. However, when I ask the sale person for my battery, he told me angrily that the standard pack does not come with a battery and only the value pack does.
Then after I requested to upgrade to the value pack by topping on money where later he say that it was out of stock and further said we are not allowed to change and insisted on me in purchasing the battery instead. Leaving me with no choice, I have to just buy the battery in order for my PSP to work. He first quoted me a price of $75 for the normal battery but further persuaded me to buy a higher capacity battery with longer battery life and comes with a warranty which we agreed at the price of $105 with GST. In total, I paid $525 for my PSP.
I went back to the shop to look for the sale person. His colleague, a medium built Chinese man in his mid thirties, claimed that he was not around. I recited the incident to him, asked him politely for his help. Instead of being helpful or even clarify the matter further, he pointed his finger at me and said that it was my fault that we assume and did not ask properly before purchasing. He started to raise his voice and smirk at me, asking me to go ahead and call the police or report it to CASE if I want to, saying that he is not afraid. I am seriously feel threaten and been bullied by the 2 sale persons.
One day if they are black listed, they can simply change the shop name. Most importantly, the sales person will get pay 40% of the gross margin. The more they cheat you , the more they earn. It's advisable to go to big megastores like Audio House, Best Denki, Court & etc. I know Audio House are case-trust certified and provide 7 days money back guarantee if you are not happy with their price, product or service with no question ask. Star retailers are selected by SLS management and Case-trust certified stores are audited by the authority on their operating systems and services. As comparsion, case-trust is more trustworthy.
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Electronics:
I have been to both Funan mall and Sim Lim Square. Funan mall is big but definitely not as busy as Sim Lim Square. I will take it as an indication of pricing being high in Funan. I have extensively looked into pricing in Sim Lim Square and it does not seem to be cheaper than what we can get here in New Zealand. Offcourse there are more variety however for standard electronics goods, and with weak NZ Dollar (end of 2008), Singapore does not seem to be a cheap destination for buying Electronics goods.
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Hi all I couldn't find a place to post about DISreputable shops so I hope you won't mind me posting here - I am aiming to post this info everywhere I can so others don't go thru the same crap I did today. I'm from the UK and in Singapore on holiday and looking for a cheap PS3 console. Went to Funan, Mustafa, Sony shops in Isetan, Best Denki, Harvey Norman - no PS3 in stock anywhere. Only place I could find it was Sim Lim Square at prices too good to be true - surprise surprise - they WERE too good to be true. The guys in Sim Lim Square are pure SCAM artists! Especially Harris at GAMES INNOVATION on the Ground Floor. He said I could buy a PS3 for 399 SGD and it was in stock. When we proceeded to talk he asked where I was from and when I said UK he said this PS3 was region-coded to Asia. I was fairly sure games were region free but Blu-Ray discs weren't but he said this was new in Asia and they had started region-coding the PS3 models and games to get around people buying them cheap and taking them out of Asia. Stupidly I fell for this and bought a "region-free model" from him for 560SGD (which happened to be the same price Sony Style shop quoted, I should have realised what was happening at this point). I wanted the White model so I paid a bit extra for that over the black one. I also bought a controller from him and he was trying to sell me other crap and not giving me any discounts or haggling at all. I got him to take it out of the box and test it all and it worked fine. Problem was I didn't have a UK game to test it with so who knew if it was really region-free or not? Got back to hotel and did more research on this and found on a forum that a guy in HK had exactly same kind of problem. I was so angry so I went all the way back and demanded a refund or difference in price and said this was not region free and that was just a story he made up to get customers to pay a lot more. He refused to refund me. Thankfully I had paid by credit card (for which they charged me 4 percent extra) but I threatened to cancel the card payment if he didn't refund me. Eventually after a lot of arguing I got a full refund. I then asked at a few other shops in Sim Lim Square and a lot of do the same trick. I eventually bought a black PS3 from another shop there for 450 SGD then he said GST was not included so I paid an extra 7 percent. Then I was told I had to buy two games (at vastly inflated prices even compared to the UK) and then he was still trying to convince me to take a region-free model even though no such thing exists as such! Thankfully even after paying over the odds for all of it I still came out 55 UK pounds better but with no warranty (only SIngapore warranty). The second shop also refused to even let me test the console in the shop although he agreed he would replace it if I brought it back the same day. Be warned - don't fall for the sim lim scam artists, don't believe anything to do with region coding, be careful what you pay for anything and use a credit card! It's worth the peace of mind! I hope this helps out some people.
Be very careful if buying a PS3
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