I had been quite busy recently and was decided to abandon my blog for a certain period, but
there's something about one of the best network service provider, DiGi i would like to share about it.
During last thursday, my friend Mun Yew and I with some other pals was hanging out for our brunch. Mun Yew was like shocked or shouted or something like that when he twitted with his iphone 3gs. Immediately he share to us what he saw :
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Digi Internet BonanzaWe all are aiming for the blackberry curve 8900 since the price was lower than market price much much more and the design looks better than blackberry bold 9000 far far away for us as a typical youngster. After brunch with them i called my another pal, Jeen to go One Utama immediately with me, to make sure we can grab the phone that we wanted so much as soon as possible at such cheap price. Mun yew was planned to go after his 3-5pm class.
When me and Jeen reach there at 3.40pm ( Thursday, first day of the event), i saw the event is crowded. A lot of them were queued up there and waiting for register the plan. Me and Jeen walked into the red carpet and queued up there too. A helpful and beautiful promoter which i forgot to ask for her name told us that blackberry curve, blackberry bold and n97 mini was sold out before 3pm. Jeen and I was kinda upset and decided to come again earlier during Friday morning.
During Friday morning, Jeen and I reached there around 8.20am and try to guess what we saw ?
Sorry for the blurry picture but that's not what i wanted to mention, around 70-80 peoples were lining up in front of me when i reached there around 8.20am. We both quickly join the queue and were leaving it after 20 minutes because the uncle who lined up in front of me had asked the promoter about stocks availability and DiGi are only selling 25 blackberry curve for Friday.
Jeen and I was kinda frustrated and decided to start queue up for the phone from Friday night and overnight there for Saturday's promotion. Had confirmed the stock's availability for Saturday from
DiGi website . 44 blackberry curve on Saturday and other phones are sold out.
We went One Utama on Friday Night for Saturday Promotion , see how desperate could we be for the phone ?
We reached One Utama at 8.30pm, having our dinner at Penang Delight or Penang something that nearby there. After our dinner, around 9.30pm, we saw someone started the queue in front of DiGi, Jeen went to buy water and some sweets for the long time lining up while i called Mun Yew to make sure he's using his fastest speed to reach here and join the queue. What's the prove to tell that i am there? Picture talks now.
Captured this on 9.50pm, Friday. Still in the mall.
Outside the mall, in front of the fcuk shop.
Around 1am plus, was halau-ed by security guards since we are restricted and not allowed to stay in the mall after their working hour and they promised that we can queue in front of the Digi Bonanza at 6am sharp. (Jeen wearing the Big G in Green)
I am not holding a Digital Single-Lens Reflex camera [DSLR] that's why i was unable to capture all the way and due to others privacy i am not capturing much on them too.
A lot of them hiding in mall or somewhere else nearby The Oval, where the Digi Bonanza held but One Utama's guard did their job well. They keep on patrolling on the mall to make sure no one will able to be there before 6am and they are just like helping us to make sure we are not wasting our sleeping time on waiting for the extremely cheap package and phone.
During 5am, security guards caught a lot of bastards that come late and yet don't understand what is about first come first serve basis . They argued with some adults who queue up in the proper queue. Some of them telling me that they fighted for it after we went into the mall but i am not sure about it . We get into the mall around 5.30am and the guards are unable to control the situation because too much peoples are waiting there.
Around 8am, one of the DiGi staff / supervisor / manager come out and make some announcement. He wants everyone to queue in a proper role but that seems not work. Finally he decided to disperse everyone in LG floor to other floors or out of the mall. Some of them just don't want to listen and stay in front of the DiGi Bonanza. Around 9am, DiGi come out with no idea and make another announcement. I am in the wash room that's why i don't know what happened. But as i know the DiGi people was telling that if we all are not dispersed they won't start the event right ? Even if they forced to start the event it should be started at 10am , the mall open time, right?
During 9am+, i saw a proper role as the DiGi staff requested but i am late for it . So this time i managed to capture more photos to show how's the role looks like.
Starting of the role. The DiGi staff is quite entertaining all the way :)
Middle of the role. It's like a L shape cause there's no space to continue queue in a straight way.
The end of the queue. Those malays were giving up like us since there are more than 100 in queue :S
I know as an event planner, it's hard to predict what would be happen, what situation will they face. But they can leave one staff / a few staffs to control the situation when we are queued like more than 13 hour right ? I saw a lot of Digi staffs or event company's staffs are sleeping in their Bonanza sofa or chair or something like that but no one willing to help when some serious riots happened outside.
DiGi come out with such cheap and fast speed internet plans, i am ensure that Maxis or Celcom or U-mobile or P1wimax are beaten up with the price and the speed. DiGi can owns the majority usage on market by time to time.
But, they might lose the first batch customer like us to continue supporting them since we are just disappointed with their service. Even how good your plans can be, how cheap your phones are, the services provided in Bonanza was really making us lost our trust / hope on DiGi.
I was a DiGi postpaid user and currently I am using DiGi prepaid. I had used more than 4 numbers in 016/ 014. Digi never disappoint me. But now, after this event, i was totally lost my trust and loyalty to DiGi. Thinking that is it time to swap back to Maxis since i had a number that given by my Dad , just to contact my family and some really closed friends.
For DiGi, if you all planned to do something, please plan it well and make sure everyone get benefits from it but not back with injuries, disappointment, dissatisfaction and any negative moods. Thanks for giving me such experiences on my life. Thanks to DiGi.
If anything to correct me or any argument,
Do contact me at :
hotmail : kialoon04@hotmail.com
gmail : kialoon@gmail.com
Phone : 016-6293819 / 012-2161755
Thanks and Regards,
Kia Loon.
One of the Soon-to-be-ex DiGi user.
