My New Handphone

As stated in the title, i finally got my dream phone!! nokia 6230 in case u dunnoe yet...there's much twists and turns that i decided to blog it haha...as mentioned in an earlier blog, i have this starhub $100 discount voucher that stated clearly that it cld only be used in starhub shops namely the PS, tampines mall and UOB centre ones...and the prx of the hp there is $428 way above my budget..so xmas day itself, i wish for some miracle as i scan the straits times for hp ads... n there it was! a starhub outlet featuring the phone at $298 but its at partner outlet toa payoh. so i called the starhub hotline and asked whether its really confirmed that my voucher cant be used at those partner outlets and the operator said yah...in the midst of disapptment, i saw another ad featuring a roadshow at Jurong Point stating that starhub vouchers can be used there so I got my boyfriend to make an inquiry at the roadshow for my phone and i heard the best news of the day that i cld use my voucher and that the roadshow sells the phone at $298 hee... coz im having terrible sore throat i din go immediately and waited for the next day... an di did the stupid thing of calling singtel to terminate my existing line in the hope that they will give me freebies to retain this loyal customer of 4 yrs...but NO lo...the operator coolly told me that it will take 3 working days to terminate my line...chey..


So, on the next day (sunday) i went to JP to sign up for the phone with regrets of termination since i forgot that i can do number retention... and i received the terrible news from my boyfriend (who went there earlier) that my phone is out of stock!...However....when i went to ask that sales guy, he said there's 2 more pieces left...hahahah false alarm...guess he dun reallie like my boyfriend or coz he asked too many qns le...haha Anyway i quickly sign up for the new line and the whole process took ard half an hr or more with him filling up forms and setting up the phone for me to recieve mms and etc... and finally at ard 145pm i made my 1st call with my brand new phone wahahaha.... However the stupid thing is the salesperson say i cant do no. retention at the roadshow and had to go to any starhub shops to do that which i think is ok at the mmt as i haven called singtel to cancel my action of termination ha... so with that my existing line is still alive and working. The rest of the day was spent exploring the phone and trying to transfer my mp3 music into the 32mb card..which is simply nt eunff..planning to get a 256mb card soon..

the frustrating thing is that when i called starhub hotline again this time to ask abt no. retention the person actually say i cant do anything now since i nvr did that during the pt of sign-up.. this is so ridiculous that different ppl r telling different stuff and MOST of the time the hotline operators are telling me the crap and wrong stuff.. i dun believe her at all and called a nearby starhub outlet at bukit panjang plaza(i realised later that every outlet say starhub vouchers cld be used there and they r selling at 298 too...) to ask abt it, the gal said they cant do it at their shops but i cld go to PS to apply. THis... i believe haha...

So off i went to PS the next day (tuesday) and finally settled everything though i have to wait for 5 days to activate my starhub account coz mine was signed up at a roadshow and another 7 working days to apply for no. retention... so in the end, i had to wait till 12th or 13th Jan due to the holidays and weekends for my old line to be terminated finally.

I guess all these mafan-ness cld be compensated with the fact that i finally got my dream phone haha...a rather senseless blog haha but juz a record for the troubles of getting it..

to be continued....