New York Skin Solutions can go suck my c*%k.
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So a week ago I got a call from NYSS telling me that I have won a complimentary facial from a contest I took part in The Straits Times aeons ago. Of course I was thrilled lah and I remembered the girl saying over the phone that it is COMPLIMENTARY....and I booked a date.
I came on time and when I entered the place, some Chinese lady was arguing with one of the people there on dunno what cause they were talking in Mandarin all the way....great, I guess for a first impression of the place, anyway I registered and they asked me to go and have my lunch first, and I was like WTH? I rushed from my ops(Im a NSF) to get here and spent almost $25 on taxi fare so that I won't be late and they had the cheek to delay me....wah damned umprofessional leh.
An hour later I came back and they brought me to the "consultation room". I saw a calculator on top of a table and I knew that they are going to hardsell me. But the truth is, I was kind of interested in their packages since I have an acne problem and I would consider signing up in the future after the complimentary treatment. However I was in for a shock when the consultant said that I have to pay for a facial and whatever that was free is the consultation. Wait a minute, I did not feel that I was being consulted. All I had was her telling how bad my skin was, which I had known all along, obviously, and that was like only 1/4 of the time. The rest were just her blabbering away about the packages and she tried to con me by doing this dunno treatment that removes acne scars on my face for $4000! Of course I had to reject cause definitely I couldn't pay that amount....siao! Then she tried to sell me this package which costs $1680 for 10 treatments after discount. I told her I didn't have enough money, then she asked me how much can I pay... I said $100. Then she told me to pay $100 and pay $300 the next day, which she said that I can pay the rest by installments, but I made excuses that I'm broke and that I can pay only on the 10th of next month, and she had no problems with that. Seriously I just wanted to storm out but I wanted my facial so I verbally agreed with her and paid the $100. Eh, wait....$107 after GST.
I've never been to a facial before, so I can't really review how good it was. But the sucky part was when she squeezed the life out of my zits and i felt like she injected something to it. But frankly speaking, overall I was quite impressed with the treatment lah; the whole time I made plans for my finances in the future since I'm gonna part with lots of cash from my payroll. After the treatment was over I signed the paper and she asked me what time the next day I will be coming over to bring the $300. Somehow I felt that I was being "legally exthorted". Ironically my next appointment is two weeks away. So seriously, what's the rush? I just said somewhere in the afternoon and left the place.
Now half a day later after more thinking I regretted signing up for the package. But the truth is I do have some spare cash but that's reserved for other use. Ok so some may argue that that the "other use" includes facial but I think that money is better used for other stuff than just for removing stuff from the skin surface. I bet NYSS are like having a party right now cause I'm like the 2,503,287th customer they thought they have conned. I use the word thought because I'm so not going to pay the remaining $300, and neither will I turn up for the next treatment, after reading bad reviews of the place from various forums. But then ah, will I get sued or anything?
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u shd have consulted FI jiejie for opinioin before u go mah
tsk................now god bless u loh
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The moment that you realised whatever is free is that consultation, you should have left. Or made noise. About wasting your time to go down. This is how such centres make money anyway. Long term commitment for large amount of money which not necessary produce any results.
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stupid scammers........................
yah, when they say only consultation is free, you must go already. I dont believe in free lunch
not sure of the get-sued part.... can anyone help him??
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howcome after reading so long, i still cannot find the suck C**%k part?? sian..
Anyway, you will not get sue, whatever you signed is an agreement, in the laws of consumers association of singapore, there is yet any sale of products or service taken place.
But it is a courtesy to call them that you cannot make it with no money as the reason, thanks them and dun listen too much from them.
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who ask you to be so "gian png" ...
why would a guy need facials anyways ? ...
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partly blame urself for no determination to say no to all the psycho-ing
if u have some senses and know how to reject, u oso wun tupid tupid just sign like tt
so u oso need to suck c0ck -
>.<" !
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why TS make it sound like he knows what will happen but yet fell for it.. irony
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Seriously I just wanted to storm out but I wanted my facial so I verbally agreed with her and paid the $100. Eh, wait....$107 after GST.
muahahahahahahah .......
I rest my case ...
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Maybe they earn commission for every customer they conned.
So, now u know their tactics already, dun get duped by them again le lor..
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Originally posted by Miss Tiny:
Maybe they earn commission for every customer they conned.
So, now u know their tactics already, dun get duped by them again le lor..
oh cos they earn...
but the scary thing is... this is not the first case...
google around and you see many forums with such threads...
I cant imagine people trapping you in a room and then try to "persuade" you to buy packages..
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Originally posted by Ferret:
oh cos they earn...
but the scary thing is... this is not the first case...
google around and you see many forums with such threads...
I cant imagine people trapping you in a room and then try to "persuade" you to buy packages..
Yeah... Even those Sales assistant at Guardian or whichever shop that's trying to hard sell me the products I totally heck care.. It's so obvious that they are just hard selling, and not sincerely helping u at all.
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Haiz.
Do what I always do whyen I have got nothing better to do for the day.
Just say "No"
Take out a Cosmo magazine and start reading.
Occassionally every 5 minutes while they are trying to hardsell some crap to you, look up and say "No" again.
Repeat until you have finished your magazine.
Then get up and say "Thank you. Have a nice day."
Leave.
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Originally posted by DamienSaputra:
So a week ago I got a call from NYSS telling me that I have won a complimentary facial from a contest I took part in The Straits Times aeons ago. Of course I was thrilled lah and I remembered the girl saying over the phone that it is COMPLIMENTARY....and I booked a date.
I came on time and when I entered the place, some Chinese lady was arguing with one of the people there on dunno what cause they were talking in Mandarin all the way....great, I guess for a first impression of the place, anyway I registered and they asked me to go and have my lunch first, and I was like WTH? I rushed from my ops(Im a NSF) to get here and spent almost $25 on taxi fare so that I won't be late and they had the cheek to delay me....wah damned umprofessional leh.
An hour later I came back and they brought me to the "consultation room". I saw a calculator on top of a table and I knew that they are going to hardsell me. But the truth is, I was kind of interested in their packages since I have an acne problem and I would consider signing up in the future after the complimentary treatment. However I was in for a shock when the consultant said that I have to pay for a facial and whatever that was free is the consultation. Wait a minute, I did not feel that I was being consulted. All I had was her telling how bad my skin was, which I had known all along, obviously, and that was like only 1/4 of the time. The rest were just her blabbering away about the packages and she tried to con me by doing this dunno treatment that removes acne scars on my face for $4000! Of course I had to reject cause definitely I couldn't pay that amount....siao! Then she tried to sell me this package which costs $1680 for 10 treatments after discount. I told her I didn't have enough money, then she asked me how much can I pay... I said $100. Then she told me to pay $100 and pay $300 the next day, which she said that I can pay the rest by installments, but I made excuses that I'm broke and that I can pay only on the 10th of next month, and she had no problems with that. Seriously I just wanted to storm out but I wanted my facial so I verbally agreed with her and paid the $100. Eh, wait....$107 after GST.
I've never been to a facial before, so I can't really review how good it was. But the sucky part was when she squeezed the life out of my zits and i felt like she injected something to it. But frankly speaking, overall I was quite impressed with the treatment lah; the whole time I made plans for my finances in the future since I'm gonna part with lots of cash from my payroll. After the treatment was over I signed the paper and she asked me what time the next day I will be coming over to bring the $300. Somehow I felt that I was being "legally exthorted". Ironically my next appointment is two weeks away. So seriously, what's the rush? I just said somewhere in the afternoon and left the place.
Now half a day later after more thinking I regretted signing up for the package. But the truth is I do have some spare cash but that's reserved for other use. Ok so some may argue that that the "other use" includes facial but I think that money is better used for other stuff than just for removing stuff from the skin surface. I bet NYSS are like having a party right now cause I'm like the 2,503,287th customer they thought they have conned. I use the word thought because I'm so not going to pay the remaining $300, and neither will I turn up for the next treatment, after reading bad reviews of the place from various forums. But then ah, will I get sued or anything?
I suggest U go to CASE and work out something with them....cos ur problem is not going to go away by not appearing there again...especially when U signed something of an agreement.
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Sigh..Pity the boy. Perhaps he is too eager to hav his facial prob solved to think rite.
TS ah, actually hor..u shld wait til u r out of ur NSF thingy b4 u solve ur facial prob. Probably, ur face wll not b even a prob when u r out from tat place liaoz.
Rem: Dun go into those beauty / health saloons unless u really hav alot of spare, spare cash to spend. Dun b a sucker to them. They are always other ways to improve ur problems w/o spendin too much de.
Meanwhile, i dun think u wll get any prob with the law abt tat money thingy lar..They oready earn u $100 out of nothin liaoz..Jus too bad tat they cant get more outta you - for now.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
partly blame urself for no determination to say no to all the psycho-ing
if u have some senses and know how to reject, u oso wun tupid tupid just sign like tt
so u oso need to suck c0cklol...
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Originally posted by Miss Tiny:
Yeah... Even those Sales assistant at Guardian or whichever shop that's trying to hard sell me the products I totally heck care.. It's so obvious that they are just hard selling, and not sincerely helping u at all.
its different...from those at guardianor whatsoever...
firstly, there's already the "mentality" that you have already made the effort to go down and book the time.... and you expect to see results, even if its a slight one, from the free treatment.
then secondly, they "corner" you by trapping you in a room with at one or even two sales staff and then try to hard sell while telling you that to get the freebie u gotta do this do that...
some ppl cannot withstand this form of pressure de...
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zzz... Why you never read the contract properly??? And verbal agreement??? Come on...
I myself is a customer of New York and they treated me quite nicely...
1st of all, they got limited resources, 5-6 customer at a time if I'm not mistaken... So, rule no. 1, call a head for an appointment... even their complimentary ones require an appointment if you don't want to get into unexpected waits...
I went for their complimentary facial last year and yes afterwards they did try to pull me into one of their packages... But I am interested in one of their packages coz I also had acne problems...
They went over with me the contract saying I only have to pay $500 in installment for a 10 session facial... RULE NO.2 READ THE CONTRACT!!! I did not only take their word for it, I read the contract from page 1 to page 3 and everything was in order... I only had to make a $20 diposit and can come back when ever I got the money and time...
6 MONTHS LATER when I got my own money, I went there for my 1st facial... It was great, they treated me very nicely... But they did squeeze out the black heads which were painful but no pain no gain...
So, over view (1) make an appointment a head, (2) Read the contract, (3) know your rights...
I give New york 4/5...
BTW, it really works... 2 sessions and I see good improvement...
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Originally posted by Ferret:
its different...from those at guardianor whatsoever...
firstly, there's already the "mentality" that you have already made the effort to go down and book the time.... and you expect to see results, even if its a slight one, from the free treatment.
then secondly, they "corner" you by trapping you in a room with at one or even two sales staff and then try to hard sell while telling you that to get the freebie u gotta do this do that...
some ppl cannot withstand this form of pressure de...
I believe that in such businesses, they will use this common tactic to draw customers into signing for the package and does not only apply to NYSS only.
TS should already expect this to happen when he went for the treatment. But the thing is that they only promised him a free consultation instead of a complimentary treatment. Did they really promise a free treatment or did TS misinterpret what they said, I really dunno.
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u sound like u got punk big time
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Originally posted by Miss Tiny:
I believe that in such businesses, they will use this common tactic to draw customers into signing for the package and does not only apply to NYSS only.
TS should already expect this to happen when he went for the treatment. But the thing is that they only promised him a free consultation instead of a complimentary treatment. Did they really promise a free treatment or did TS misinterpret what they said, I really dunno.
...... mmmm
tiny
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Originally posted by Ferret:
...... mmmm
tiny
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Originally posted by Miss Tiny:
mood swings.
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Originally posted by Ferret:
mood swings.
