"My Name is L i e W"

"My Name is L i e W"



Hullo,

ok... haven't been doing much today. Spent my morning + early noon @ California Fitness Mid Valley. Interesting ye? :D Well i don't really think so...

y'see...

i think i've got con-ed. Sort of.


Yea, for those who don't know, California Fitness is a gym. Just opened @ MidValley, California Fitness is also well-knowned for Jackie Chan as their spokesperson..

Ok now, so how'd i get conned by a fitness centre?

Well it started back at Taylors, somewhere near Inferno...2 days ago.


Hoh-kay,

I was at Inferno (an internet kafe) @ Subang playing a round of DotA (need i explain what's DotA?) w/ some friends of mine, and some also not really friends of mine o_O

So after a round, we all headed home. On the way home, i encountered this ladee.

She introduces herself as LIM. And she happens to be a salesperson representing California Fitness selling some promotion stuff. Uh-huh.

So yea, she explained that she was going around selling and promoting these promotion packages which contain coupons, giving away free trial membership for 30-days, discounts on full-time membership, and some free fitness evaluation stuff O_o? (whatever that is).

Not only that, w/ the promotion package, i can even get a freebie! Yea, everybody loves a freebie. I have a choice of either getting a free California Fitness tower or a stainless steel water bottle both worth RM70 on my first visit. Hmm..so i thought it's not bad.

The catch - the entire promotion ends on June 2006, and the promotion package is actually NOT FREE. It's selling for RM25.

But hey, hmm...

Coupons having 2 sets of each, free one month membership trial (well not so free afterall), and a free towel/water bottle on my first visit...

It doesn't sound so bad afterall :] So what the heck, i bought it. Nothing to lose...at least so that's what i thought...

This is what the package looks like. It's basically a cardboard w/ tear-ready coupons inside.

Oh yea, an attractive cover case...

The inside of the package. Click for a bigger preview.

The coupons have a duplicate set. So yea, i can bring somebody along too.

So after the transaction have been finalised, i went home happily, w/ lots of hope that i won't rot at home for the rest of the days before university starts.

So today comes...

I head over to MidValley in the late morning around 11.00am or so. Went there, got to the gym and i met up w/ this lady.

So i showed here the promotion coupons, and the first thing she asked:

"How old are you?"

So i said, "19 this year. 18 going on 19 :)"

Then she asked, "Oh i see. When is you're birthday?"

.... "25th May"

"Oh i'm sorry. Y'see the promotion is only opened to people aging 19 and above. So i can't let you use the coupons...at least for now. You gotta wait for your birthday when you really turn 19 :) But since you're here, i'll let you in lah. But only for today, after that tak boleh ya?"

"........."

Conned. The salesperson didn't mentioned anything bout the age. So does the coupons. There weren't anything that says bout age limits.

This is horribly wrong. Imagine this. Their salespersons are going around selling their stuff around Taylors College. Yes, majority of the students are 17 going on 18. So what if they got sold to these stuff? They won't have any chance to use it at all. The promotion ends on June 2006. Cheats.

Lucky i'll be 19 this year. So i can't use it till mid year only :(

Sighs. I'm so stewpid.

Guess i'm not so street smart after all.

-blessings.

-tsencai.

:)