Win or Lose?

On tuesday, I went to Tesco Ipoh, to survey price for house furnitures. I want to buy table, chair, wardrobe and etc.

I was surprised, when I was in car park, I was about to leave Tesco. I was in the car, and my car door was opened. A guy came from behind. He was wearing formal, but not in a so-tidy way, he gave me a card.

Let me put his name as Ah Wong (not his real name), then you can get a clearer picture of the incident. After that, he said, "Have you apply Tesco Card?"

Conversation started (translated from Cantonese):
Ah Wong: Have you apply Tesco Card?

Me: Yeah, apply jor lo.

Ah Wong: (showing a card) This is a Tesco's lucky draw game. Open it up, and see what it is in inside.

(I opened it up)

Ah Wong: Wa, you got this? You need to go to our office to redeem prize lerh!

Me: Ok, what do I get? Need to pay or not one?

Ah Wong: No need pay one larh. You get one these loh, nehh. We go to the office, and I will check for you.

(The card showed 3 prizes -coffee maker, foot massager, and 1 more I can't remember)

(So, I went to his office. It's on second floor, with a not-so-good-quality name board before the staircase)

Me: What company are you from?

Ah Wong: X company. It's an advertising company.

(We went upstair. He gave me a file, with some newspaper cut-out)

Ah Wong: We give you the prize, but you need to take picture with me ah, to get published in newspaper. Can mou? Will you get malu (embarrassed)?

Me: Need to pay?

Ah Wong: No need. We give you the prize, and of course lah, you have to pay tax yourself lah. You understand mou? You go buy thing also need to give tax, correct? That tax is for government one. OK?

(Ah Wong gave me a piece of document, with some prize list and a signature required at the bottom. The prize list are: Toyota corolla, Dell Inspiron, cash RM10,000, cash RM 6,000 and etc)

Me: What is the RM4,999 for? (It's written on the document, I need to pay that amount)

Ah Wong: We will see what you will get by scanning (the silver coated circle on) the card. So you want to pay by credit card or cash? You pay the RM4,999 to us and we pay it to government. Easy for you marh! In case you did't get a price from the list, we will still give you RM10,000 as the document says. You just need to give me RM4,999. In this case, you also earn marh?

Me: Okay... I'm not very sure about this. (Ask again) What company are you from?

Ah Wong: It's a marketing company larh.

Me: Nahh... It's not that I don't trust you, but do you have some paper certification about this?

Ah Wong: Nehh ... those picture we took and the newspaper.

Me: Can I call Tesco to certify this?

Ah Wong: Oh, you don't trust me jek?

Me: I got to go. Thank you.

Note: If you're Ah Wong above, or from the same company, reading this. I'm just reporting the incident. So sorry ya.


I'm posting this, not to tell you, there is got such case in Ipoh or not, but the question is, what would you do? =)