I decide to buy a new pc on a PC fair - at least one year ago. Due to some personal reasons, I only manage to buy on this September. I decide to buy a desktop pc instead of a laptop as I feel desktop is much better than laptop - at least for the life consuming (I'm someone who will on the PC for a long period of time).
4 GB ram with 750GB hard disk with S$1,099, quite cool, isn't it? The only part I dislike is the microprocessor. I prefer Intel instead of AMD, but in overall I believe this is the best deal I can find among all the desktops around my budget in this PC fair. I went on the last day of PC fair, which is always has the best bargain or more free gifts if we bought on that day.
So today my friend, Bong and I went down to Comex 2009 which was located at Suntec and looked for this desktop. And now is the funny and interesting part. First of all, neither of us printed and brought the brochure with us. I remembered it is under "HP"and my friend, remembered it as under "Compaq". When I went into the pc fair, I straight forward went to "HP" and my friend called me,"This way!", try to lead me to Compaq. I a bit surprise, "I thought it is under HP and both of them are combined together already?" "They are sold under different brands althought they're combined." Bong answered. Without thinking too much, I followed my friend and changed my mind that the desktop I wanted to buy is under Compaq instead of HP. (Which one is correct? Please look at the brochure above.)
You know what? At level 4, there were at least 4 different stalls selling Compaq computers (one of them is Court, selling more than one brand in its stall), but no matter which stalls we went, it said all their desktops are equipped with Intel instead of AMD, (I wondering the reason Compaq wants to occupy more stalls is to make sure they have the more sales.) and we can't find it. We started thinking that we made the mistakes but to make sure we checked properly before we gave up, I suggested we went up to level 6 to look at it again.
When we reached level 6, we found one Compaq stall at there. We talked to one of the promoters that we were looking for a desktop which comes with AMD processor. The young promoter asked us to wait and he went inside. Both of us thought, "Finally! We found it on level 6." The thing happened next is I heard (only me, Bong never hear that.) The supervisor or manager, who standed on the stage to promote this stocks, talked to the young promoter and said that, "AMD? It will be very hot (when it ran with computers), we never sell!" The young promoter came back to us and said they're not selling. I told Bong what I've heard and he claimed the manager is not professional in that manner as he'll never say that if he is promoting AMD products.
We felt exhausted and Bong called his friend to check for us. His friend provided the model and the booth number but we still can't find. To make the story short, Bong looked for his another friend who is at level 2 and I keep searching at level 4 and looked for other desktops instead of the one I tried to look. Suddenly, I saw one poster hanging quite high and stated "S$1,099"
in a handwriting way. One of the Compaq stalls was pushing its desktop, they changed the price of that model and exchanged its LCD, instead of 23 inches, they changed it to 19 inches. Its original price is S$1,499, just changed the LCD to 19 inches, the price dropped for 500 dollars. I feel is a good deal and asked Bong to come up for some opinion, at the same time I asked the promoter to save one for me as they've left 5 stocks only.
(Under $50 * TRADE-IN REBATE, the fourth computer counts from the left side. That's the computer the stall was pushing but with smaller size LCD and with price at S$1,099.)
After that, I tried to look around and thinking that maybe can find a better deal. I went to look for HP stall (this is the second HP stall I can find at level 4, not the first stall I went to when I came for PC fair and it is just beside the Compaq stall which I just went into). When I was looking around the desktops inside the stall, I saw one lady holding a brochure. Inside the brochure is the desktop which I keep looking for since I came! I asked the promoter to pass me another same brochure, before that he told me they've sold all the units and that was the last one - the one that the lady was looking at and she was considering. What a sad news. I was a litte bit frustrated for this. Both my friend and I asked the promoters at Compaq stalls(included this stall, but we've never ask this promoter), they claimed all their desktops are selling with Intel processors ONLY. The young promoter told me that all this model desktops are sold on yesterday except 2 demo units. And today's selling price is S$899 and they left only one.
My friend came up and I told him all the situation. After comparing both models specifications and the prices. My friend convinced me to buy the desktop which was selling S$899 with the reasons of cheaper and he felt that it is more compatible to me. So we went to HP stall and told them we want to buy the desktop. The promoter told us we've to come and collect at 9pm if we bought it because they need the LCD for displaying (but the LCD is not include in the desktop I want to buy). We insisted to take it away instantly because by that time it was 4pm something only! The young promoter asked his manager and came back with the answer "No".
This give me a very good reason to buy the Compaq desktop with the price S$1,099 (I prefer this desktop actually.). We tried to bargain and asked for some free gifts but failed and at the same time, we found up we've to pay another 2 percents or 1 percent if we pay by credit card or NETS respectively. Bong's friend has found us and three of us try to take all the cash we've on hands and luckily, we've enough cash to buy.
I brought the desktop back to my home and equipped it.
And right now, in front of my new desktop, using it to write this post. Very happy to get a new computer! Writing this up on my blog, to share with my friends! Find up I'm someone who will get happy easily - just with a new pc. Haha!
-End-