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I posted about a special offer from HTC for three days, beginning today (9^th October), at 10am to Sunday 10pm, where a total of 65 units of the Touch2 smartphone which comes with Windows Mobile 6.5 is going to be on sale daily at a steep discount of 65% off its retail price.  As the retail price of the Touch2 is RM 1,599, this means that you can buy the Touch2 at RM 559.65.  And as I tweeted, one would be either stupid or silly, or heaven forbid, both, to miss an offer like this.  And since I do not like to call myself either, I decided to head on down to Sunway Pyramid to perhaps get a few to make some money.  I kid, of course.

So, imagine my horror when I got there at 945am, only to see that there were already more than 80-90 people in the queue in front of me.  Here are some pictures I took with my iPhone on the length of the queue when I got there.

So, here’s my advice if you really want to buy one:

1. head on down there tomorrow or Sunday.  Plan to reach there at 6am or earlier.  You won’t probably get in, but I think you can queue up at the door right next to where they are holding the event on the “Blue Atrium” of Sunway Pyramid.  Why 6am?  The people in the queue were already starting to queue at this time, and today is a Friday, a working day.  So imagine what one has to do when it is a weekend?
2. bring a foldable chair or something if you value your back.  Standing in line for more than 4 hours to enjoy a RM 1,000 discount is no fun.
3. bring lots of patience.  When I left at 1115am just now, the queue was still there, the sale of the Touch2 had not started yet.  It was quite a disaster really.  There were a number of frustrated looking faces in the queue.
4. try to insist on a queue number from the organiser.  You know the typical Malaysian style when there’s an opportunity to make easy money – people will cheat, lie, cut queue, murder, maim, etc to get what they want.
5. only one unit per person.  If you want 20 units, bring along 19 other friends with you to queue up.

Drop a comment here if you manage to get your grubby hands on a unit!

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