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Hi guys, i got this from my friend! Just wanted to share with the ppl here!




Dear friends, especially durian lovers!

Please keep away from this durian stall called CHIN YONG TRADING opposite
Geylang Lor 11.

Their hard sell tactics give you no time to react and you'll be forced to
spend $200 on just a few durians!!

Probably its just one or 2 salesmen who use such
underhand tricks but better to avoid the stall totally or be sorry!

Here is my own personal account:

On 21st Apr, my husband with a group of friends decided to have some durian
after dinner at Geylang and we head straight to the nearest stall - CHIN
YONG TRADING. Turned out to be a big mistake!

My husband went off to choose the durians after we found a table. Once my
husband approached this hooligan, he took out his parang to open a durian
and ask my husband to try, my husband asked him how much was it but he say
"never mind just try first", so my husband commented not bad....immediately
this hooligan picked up 5 durians and put into a basket, weighed it and
brought it to our tables despite my husband repeated questioning on the
price. No replies given.

At our table, he opened up another and asked me and another gal friend
(who's carrying a less than yr old baby) to try the durian so we tried. He
asked whether nice, we said yes, not bad and immediately he started opening
up another durian and say, "see confirm good one this one"! We asked him
about the price then only at this time he told us $20 per kg!!! so we asked
him the whole basket how heavy, and guess what??? 10kg, and there were only
5 durians inside! We say we don’t want he say cannot cos durian opened
already and he already keyed in the sales and cannot return. Then keep
explaining to us this is really good durian and worth eating while picking
up another to open. This time we raised out voice and told him if he don't
stop opening, we will leave immediately.

Only then he stopped and say, never mind, he'll return the other 2 unopened
one, but the rest of the three durians we have to take....wah piang...and
we thought just a while ago he said key in order already cannot
returned??????

Anyway,
we were very angry and everything happened too fast for us to react, we
finished up the 3 durians which in the end cost us $140/- , we didn't
enjoyed the durians at all. We hope to prevent anyone from becoming victims
again to this hard-sell tactics so beware of those Geylang stalls
especially Chin Yong Trading. One of our friends who joined us later on
said that he experienced the same thing too from the same stall once.

Please circulate to your friends especially those you know who loves
durians! The season is here!

PS: It doesn't help that the hooligan was
waving his parang around, I'm 6 months pregnant and our friends had their
little baby with them.




Very unhappy customers……

Yes, I confirm that there was this durian stall opposite Lorong 11 that was
extremely aggressive & expensive.

On 16 Apr 07, my bro in law, sis in law & I went to this stall for durians
at midnight.

The story is similar to the story told below: the stall holder kept opening
them to let us smell & even try. When asked abt the price, he said 'dun
worry, try first'. I noticed that he picked up 2 durians which were already
opened. My sis in law stopped him from opening more and asked him the
prices for the 4 durians he had put into our basket. To our surprise, it
was $240+!! It was at this point he told us it was $20/kg. We say we don't
want such expensive durians. He said cannot
as the durians were already opened and he already keyed in the sales. He
kept insisting that the durians he gave us were really good durians. My
sis-in-law argued that he should have told us the prices b4 opening, to
which he claimed he did. He then took out 2 durians and said he remembered
telling us the price after he opened 2 durians, so we have to take at least
2. We told him we didn’t bring so much cash for durians, to which he said
we could pay by nets!! Eventually, we settled for one & my brother-in-law
paid $62 for it. $62 for one durian !!

So guys, avoid this stall at all
costs.

Keith

__________________________________________________ __________


I’m just sharing an account of a very negative experience
that some one had with one particular durians-stall in Geylang.
I am unable to verify the story-originator.
Nonetheless, the point is to be aware of hard-sell tactics deployed by some
stall-holders.
Do be extra vigilant if you buy durians from vendors whom you are not
familiar with.

vinc_vls

thanks for the info.... luckily i dun eat durian... :biggrin4:

seacsub

Lodge a complaint against CASE. This sort of underhanded salesman should be curbed.

Edwin1975

Saw this in one of my forwarded emails... So how true is tat... Although a lot of durians sellers are ah beng ah sengs... So I prefer to buy fr carrefour or ntuc... Not really noe how 2 appreciate gd durians....:biggrin4:

SunShyGal

Eeekkk... like tat also can ... lolz.. I hate such kind of salesman ... This one u must complain to authority!! Or else there will be more victims .. I just ate durian last nite ... $5 each only lor ... Not bad grade leh ... buy at fruit stall at those half wet market kind ...

sgboi82

Anyway be more careful lor...pays before you eat.

Edwin1975

Pay liao remember 2 take receipt in case after eating they say u never pay then u LL...

welling

hate cheats! :notimpressed2:

kaiten

EEEEEeee.. DURAIN!! I'm SO SICK of it..

i'll always run at the sight of durain.. cuz i know the next moment i'll be vomitting at the sniff of the *fragrance*.. OMG!!

id_peace

I dont go so far for durian de

ken-nerves

haha i love durians.. woohoo.. but i nv travel all the way to geylang for them, althought i heard geylangs ones r quite popular..

genzo2106

saw this case reported in the news some time back oso..The vendors simply forced the customers to buy the durians and ignored repeated enquiries abt the pricing..

really lousy way of selling durians..WIll definitely nt eat there if indeed it is the stall as mentioned

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uyen

I saw this in 新明晚报。 the durian stall boss said his durian is very special and rare ,they paid $20 each for each imported durian.This interviewd was done by a reporter from 新明晚报 after the customers complaint .

人情味不是偏私而是博爱，

不是施舍而是关怀。

不是表面的礼貌，

而是内心的尊重。

Friends will bail you out of jail.but Best Friends will be sitting by you saying,
" that was awesome !"

monkeybusiness

never really liked durians...

Fool

read an article on it some time back. if i remember correctly, the owner Ken Lim insists that his durians are of high quality goods from penang and that the customers mistook the price as $20 per durian instead of $20 per kilo. (seriously who would buy that? as in buy his explanation, not the durians)

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