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] Date Posted: Sat, Dec 17 2005, 20:00:58 I would like to share my shocking experience with Oriental Travel. I said shocking because I can not ever understand why people would choose to make a living in such a way.I received a letter saying that I was the lucky winner of two expensive prizes which include a digital video camcorder and a designer watch.Knowing that nothing comes free in this world and out of curiosity, I called Jue Shi Marketing the company that handles the prizes to find out what it is about.The person over the phone said that in order to receive the prizes I need to attend a two hour presentation.I asked why in the world would anyone want to give away such expensive gifts for just coming to listen to a presentation. The person assured me that I do not have to buy aything and that they are just doing an advertising program on travel booking on line. Despite feeling sceptical I decided to go " see see ". In the meeting room there were about 15 other " unfortunate couples ". The presenter was very friendly and laughed all the time and she told us that we could get huge discounts on travel packages from them if we joined their membership.The packages icludes 5 star hotel accommodation at prizes that are too good to be true. We asked how much one has to pay for membership. They evaded our question and tried to show us more travel packages at unbelievable prices.when we asked again what we have to pay the presenter sent a manager and he too ignored our question and asked the presenter to show us more attractive packages.The manager also laughed a lot and I noticed that their laughing is not genuine but forced laughing.We asked to use the computer to check on hotel rates they claimed they can offer.As my spouse is a seasoned traveller he is familiar with hotel rates. They did several things to prevent us from checking out what we want to know for the obvious reason,we will not get what we hope to find.By now our suspicion seemed to be confimed and for the last time we asked how much. Our eyes nearly popped out when they said $38000+++ dollars!!!! We said we are interested and as soon as we said that, the presenter who had been smiling and laughing most of the time changed like a chamelion. She was annoyed and and the smile on her face was gone. Another person came to say they can lower the price but enough is enough and we wanted to get out.They gave me vouchers to claim the digital video camcorder and designer watch but guess what? I have to pay $138 for handling charges.After all this do you think I would part with my money? even if it is only $138.No thank you!! The whole thing is a scam so when you receive a letter from Oriental Travel throw it into the rubbish bin. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: sim [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: Sun, Dec 18 2005, 2:14:04 What a scam. A good one in fact, it’s so good that they have used this for a number of years now. - The flyer that they sent out may look like a winners notice, but actually, it is nothing more then just a well disguised trap that plays on human greed. If you read everything on that piece of paper carefully, you will find that you did not win anything at all. It is just a bait to make you go for the sales presentation, so that it would be easier to use their con skills to reel you deeper into their trap. - The “presenter” is trained to sell in a particular fix pattern and rules to ensure a smooth path towards reeling in the customer. The “price” of the membership is never revealed until they have completed their “product presentation”. That’s the brain washing session. After the price is revealed, they will start to play the psychological price cuts game to give you an impression that you are getting the membership at a bargain or huge discount. The objective is to play on your greed or maybe your fears (example: how much you will loose by using tour agency for vacation travel). - After all the tricks have been used on you and it still does not get you to buy that piece of crap membership, you will be shown to collect your supposedly winning prize. But wait, why do you still need to pay “shipping fees” or “handling fee” or whatever crap they termed it to get the winning prize? Are you not in a way “paying” for the cost of the prize instead of receiving it free? By paying the fees, you are sort of buying the prize from them instead of receiving it free. This whole setup, achieve a few things: - Make you waste your time and transport cost to present to you their crappy product. - Use multiple sales people to take turn to “hard-sell” to you in an enclosed/undisturbed (from outside) room till you sign on the dotted line. - Make you pay for prizes that you are supposed to receive for free if you failed to sign up for the membership. All this with just a well crafted flyer that you should have carefully read through before acting on it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |