Modus Operandi at the Mall

Wow... I've never encountered something like that. And, if ever I do, I would run away the moment the salesperson would be selling me something other than the item I got interested in in the first place. I have heard these kinds of modus operandi in the streets of Quiapo and Divisoria. But, inside the mall? It's a good thing she called you first before buying all those crap.

hi ARIES, That's why I always remind my Mom not to entertain such a Sales Rep it never happened to us but there are times at the mall that this people will come to you offer you something or asked if you have a credit card blah!blah!blah! I easily pissed off by this tactics so I will just look at them which can kill and they will leave us alone. It is good that your mom was able to call you first happy mylotting

Oh yeah I also saw this one and there is this insurance scheme that is doing same tactics. I think that they prey on those that can be forced to pay and would not complain. That is why when you are met with this kind of guys it is important that you just ignore them and never be tempted to look at their products at all.

Lucky that your mother call you first before she accept the offer. So far, i only encountered it once. The sales girl tried to promote some new product which is low in quality to me. l said my parents had already bought it earlier, so shle just Keep quiet and let me go off. Nowadays, i don't near any shop which their sales girl is very active promoting. We have to be very careful with what we want to buy.

Usually, these people are after those old people who they think are already pensioners and are moneyed. It's a good thing that my mother and father -in-law don't have money to buy the goods like what you just narrated, because if they do, they would surely be duped into buying also. When they arrived home, they told me about it and warned them that those people are indeed misleading people into buying things through pressure, so they better be careful. Now they know. It's a good thing indeed that your mother called you first.

I really get intimidated easily when I am in the mall in sales clerk would just come near me and utter some of their sales talk. I get really bothered about this and would just immediately go away.

I have a similar experience like your mother's. But the difference was that I managed to decline. The mall where I had this was at Harison's. Indeed, their offers were very enticing especially that at that time, I am interested to purchase a microwave oven. The microwave oven as I can remember was a very known brand P30K then (2006) and the free item would be a 3 cubic feet personal refrigerator. That wasn't only the offer, there were a massaging chair, and more. Since at that time,I was with a friend, my friend was the one quite enticed with the offers and trying to convince me. Then, I told the agent (agents, actually) to give us time and discuss and I cornered my friend. I told her that if we take one item that costs a higher value, we are likewise paying the alleged free item. She then realized the modus. When we were done discussing, I told my friend that we will not return to the store. The funny thing was that, when we went back to the mall another day, we incidentally passed by the same store and saw the same agents. We just smiled and pretend that we are not interested...Lol!

Wow that is shocking and awful! I know that this can't be in the United States; any store here operating like that would not be in business for long. I personally have never experienced this, but any sales person that would try this would be SOL with me. Whenever I go to the store I always have the item(s) in mind that I am going to purchase. Sometimes I do purchase more than that thing, but that is of my doing. Causing me to be flustered in a store would actually lose them money because I would rather just leave the store without what I came for instead of feeling pressured. I more than likely would not go back to that store either.

I thought that it is only happening in my place. I think the mall management does not know about that deceitful operations of their tenants and that no one is reporting, that is why they continue their wrong doings....

This had been happening, even at SM Malls. What I couldn't understand is why these malls allow such highway robbery take place in their turf? It is not right to accuse the malls of being in cohorts with this deceitful marketing, but surely, the mall admin investigate or study the kind of business the lessees conduct before the sign contracts, do they not? And yes, I had been hassled by these disgusting, loud, and disrespectful salesmen. Glad you got your mother out.

I used to have the same strategy when we went out to the mall i guess its everywhere not just in one mall they have fliers and they will not tell you straight what they are offering but they go straight to the free item so then if your interested for the free item then they will invite you to the table and then they will ask you that they need some information from me for item so i though their talking about the free item their offering as i though it was a promo and mall's promo or something, they have all my information then next thing is for me to signup for the form, then before i signup they will talk to me like a friend person like how am i doing and so on and so on to just get my attention so maybe i will just sign the paper but i told them to stop coz i will going to read the form first then they started to look at each other while the first go away. then all of a sudden in the form it says that i signing for the form i agreed to pay a certain amount with my credit card and so i told them they never discuss to me whats the item is and they never discuss to me the amount they only said im one of the lucky person to get their promo so i must avail it now because one out to the public its already very expensive so i was still thought its still all about the free item since they didnt mentioned anything, so i stand up and told in front of their face while others are signing that is this their strategy to get someone buy their product without even introducing the product to us then get our information for the payment and then for them to say that we already sign the form. my other friend already signup the paper and they told her she already signup and if she will going to cancel it then she need to pay for the form, then i took the form from my friend and told them they will pay us for the time we wasted from them and i will going to bring it to my cousin who is a lawyer and will put a case against them and also i told them to give me the telephone number and name of the owner of the store or the item but they refused. And so they let us go with the form. The problem is if they will let us scared us with their words and clothes like the way they wear as if they know everything they can easily get you pay but if you scared them that will slap their face to tell them that we are more wiser and smarter than they thought.

Hi, That's an old modus operandi. I am not suckered to that style being aware of it. If I want to buy something, it is usually on a hit and run basis: enter the store, see the item, pay for the item, wrap and I'm out of there. All it take is about ten minutes tops. I usually do a recon of the thing I want to buy before the actual purchase, thus the speed of the process. No demo, no offers, just pure in and out purchase.

I haven't encountered one like this and thank you for letting everyone know. Thank God you're mom was able to call you before she was forced to pay for the chair. Honestly, a massage chair worth 50,000php is not practical, nowadays, well except if you're a rich as the sultan of Brunei :). Just remind your mom to be extra careful next time she go to the mall.

Hi Aries, I did encountered these kind of modus twice,,but the funny thing is i got the free items,(umbrella and mug) free coffee while inside their office,i let them talk,listem to them and analyzing every word they said but they did't get me through :)..I guess Im just wise enough not to give them my personal information specially my credit account and atm details,I just told them I left it in my other wallet and my place would take 3 hours travel time to get in there...so they have no choice but to give me the free items and let me go. Those people were trained to do their part to convince the customers and as our part,even though how eager we are to have that items or purchase we need to be more careful and focus in talking to them,,if we lost our mind and let them in, at the end you'll regret it because it's not worth paying for.We have the right to say "NO" and beware that's scam!!!