Smart Consumer (Chapter 1)

Are you a smart consumer?

Oh well.. let me tell you this story...

Last Friday, daddy, mummy and me went to Carrefour to buy some stuffs and I had only one thing to buy in my mind - Stabilo Point Pen 88 (per pack of 10's). Why did I wanna buy this thing? Well, the usual price for this item was actually around RM14 - RM16 for 10 different colours of point pens but then it came up with a promotional price of only RM6.90!!! Now.. attractive or not? XD

Below is the Carrefour leaflet to prove this...


*The red circle indicates the item that I wanted to buy

However when we went to take it at the stationary area, we saw the tag price was RM14.90! So we went to check the price at the "price checking machine" (I dunno what it called as) and it also stated there "RM14.90". Therefore, we decided to ask a store assistant who is in charge of that area.

The store assistant told us that since it was the first day for the promotion to start, they haven't change the price tag yet, so what we can do (according to her) was to pay the original price first at the cashier, and then go to the information counter to claim back our change.

Being a wise person, of course my dad didn't do what the store assistant told us to do! What if we can't claim back our money at the info counter?! So we decided to ask the people in the info counter whether we really can claim back or not.. And guess what those people said to us? They said there were actually some minor mistake on the leaflet we received - the price for the Stabilo pens set was not RM6.90 as printed but was actually RM14.90. In another words, they've printed wrongly already... =,=

They even showed us a black and white statement with the item picture to prove their words. It was even sticked to a notice board in the hypermarket. At that very moment, we were so furious! How on earth they think people can actually read the statement of error which was only printed on a small A4 sized paper?! Are they nuts?! And I don't think there are many of us who will actually look at the hypermarket's notice board. People who come there are usually those who wanna buy stuffs at a cheaper price after they received the leaflet at their house. So there's no point looking at the notice board! You think we so "senang" kah?!

And this was not the only mistake they've made. Please take a look at the next leaflet below...

*The red circle indicates the item that has an error


There's two types of Anlene - Anlene Gold and Anlene Regular (both 1.2kg). Anlene Regular costs RM30.79 as stated above (I mean the leaflet) while Anlene Gold costs slightly higher which is RM32.99. However, the BIG price tag which is hanging GRACEFULLY above the area where they put all the items at was RM30.99!!! It's a total absurd! Wanna say it's the price for Anlene Gold also not.. wanna say it's the price for Anlene regular also not.. then what price is that?!

The worst part was that both Anlene Regular and Anlene Gold were being put together at the SAME place with the BIG price tag RM30.99 hanging above!!! (be reminded that Anlene Gold costs RM32.99) A normal person who look upon such attractive price (for those who usually buy Anlene Gold) will definitely buy it without knowing that there's actually a mistake on the price tag! (we went to check both Anlene prices at the "price checking machine" already and it really stated there RM30.79 and RM32.99 respectively)

Oh my goodness! I'm sure these are not the only mistakes that they've made. If we really go to the hypermarket and check the items one by one, I think there'll be plenty more items to be questioned. But obviously no one will actually have the time to do that! Will you? >_<

To Be Continued...