Oh yeah yeah yahoo!!! I've finally got my digicam, one down my wishlist at last! It's a Minolta E203 model, with 2 Mega Pixels and 3x optical zoom, 2x digital zoom. Searched through practically the whole of Sim Lim Square for the best price available with Mr Eeyoreand his family. Basically, I think the sales people there are pretty superficial, and most of the time, they'll just confuse you or quote you a horrendous amount. =/ You see, this is what happened.....
First, we stumbled across this particular shop at a particular corner with bright yellow "shop headers" - zhao Pai (don't know the correct word in English lar...). And so, we proceeded to enquire about this particular Minolta digicam. This uncle showed us the model and we started talking about it. He quoted $450, and promised to add another 64MB MMC for $485. Naturally this was supposed to be the best quotation available, but we wanted to look around first. Then he began to try convince us that Minolta is not good, and started recommending the more expensive models, like $800+. We were like telling him our budget's not that much, and we didn't expect to buy such a high-end digicam. He was still adamant, and insisted that forking out an additional $300+ would enable us to buy a more "quality" digicam. He made it sound as if $300+ is peanuts. Hey, $300+ would be half of my monthly attachment allowance ok?? We left the shop to source for better ones and most of the sales people there said that this Minolta would be rather value for money, especially with our budget in mind. And with 2 mega pixels and 3x optical zoom, it wouldn't really go that bad to what the uncle had said. But sadly, these other shops doesn't quote a better price than that uncle, so we decided to go back and purchase from there. Yeah, we went back, and finally when me, a libran had finally made a decision, HE (uncle) had to cause my confidence to waver again. He made Minolta sound so bad as if it would spoil the very moment I bought it. Arggh!! And he went on promoting his more expensive digicams. In the very end, we insisted on the Minolta and he said, "That's the only one left, only the display set and I don't have the box, no cables nothing" So irritating...seriously, we think that he doesn't want to sell it to us, coz he'd be making a loss if he did. $485 for the digicam and 64MB MMC is quite a good bargain lor....Anyway, we bought our digicams from another shop. It's $450 for the model, and $45 for a 32MB MMC. In all, one set would cost us $500. The uncle was rather straight forward, and actually gave us discounts here and there. I felt a whole lot happier buying from this uncle than the previous one! Stupid, fat liar uncle. Bleh! Just in case you were wondering, Mr Eeyore also bought the same model as me. =D
$500 gone like that, my bank account's poorer now. Waiting for my next month pay, hope that 28 March would come quickly! So far, this the most expensive item I've bought, and next on the list would be Nokia 8310. hiak hiak..... Now my digicam is my most prized possession, I'll bring it wherever I go, and take bit and pieces of my life with it. Hah, actually, I've already started on taking some "bo liao" pictures....preview here~
Wondering if I should go to xiaopang's house tomorrow so that I could take some pictures of her rabbits....hmmmm....=Þ
