:: A tough war ::

Yeah! Finally have gotten back our desposit of $300 from ah fat. Wooooohoo!!! *shake shake*

Its a long and tough war.

(note to refer to my previous post to knw what happen)..

Ah Fat have told us okay to collect the cheque last Monday.
Happily, we went down with a grateful heart. Called him to reconfirm the timing and he informed that he wont be ard, so have to look for his another 2 colleague to get the cheque.

An ah beng looking guy wearing a black shirt with a white outline dragon printed on it, assisted us. He claim he is the sales manager. *doubt* Once again, he make us seat down and have a "chat". He needs to know what is the reason we need to get back the refund. After much probing from him, we honestly told him it was the price. He insisted that he wants to see the quotation with the ID gave, otherwise he wont refund us the deposit. He said "house rules". Reluctantly, we showed him.. and he began to work hard on the costing with his other colleagues. 5mins later, he came back to us and told us that he can give whatever this quotation is giving. He will follow excatly the same proposal and on top of that, he will give us an additional discount of $1700. He commented that Dennis (our confirm Id) did not incl air-con installation in his package but Jef and i knew that it was not true but cannot be bothered to explain to him anymore. Is he trying to sour, add salt, add vinegar to our r/s with Dennis? *evi*

Ah beng manager : "Im giving u almost nett to nett liao. Nv earn much already. Rather earn lesser than giving up the whole project. So u must consider carefully. V cheap already."

Wah seh.. Jef and i were shocked. The prices went down tremedously. Does it mean that the quotations he quoted earlier were highly marked up? Im not sure anymore. Also, how can i trust him with my flat reno after the situation has turn alittle sour at this point? What if he try to cover his cost by giving us inferior materials?

Jef and i insisted not to take his counter offer and wanted our deposit back.

Ah beng manager : "$300 alot meh? U can forgo my $1700 cheaper quotation, what is $300 to u?"

*Thunder & lighting*
Jef and i were furious at this point. $300 also money leh... the main problem was no longer abt money but rather trust. Earlier on, before we showed him the quote, he promised he will definately refund the money if we still show no interest. But look what happen? He continued.

Ah beng manager : "Do u tink that it is fair to ah fat? All his effort in drawing the 3 pieces of perspective drawing and quotation? He wasted his time and hardwork. Ah fat might have been available to service another client. Do you think that this $300 is worth his effort?"

Wah lao.. this is crap loh. Firstly, we did NOT ask him to draw any drawings for us. We roughly told him our idea and he did mentioned that he need to draw this so that he can quote. Without drawing, he duno how to quote. So..?!?!? Honestly, that 3 pieces of perspective drawing is purely just simple basic drawing, no design one lohr.. compared to Melissa and David, i think they gave us more service then ah fat. Arent they worst? I tink they are just buying time and trying to "eat" our money by making us feel bad. See us young??

Jef burted out: "Actually, we intend to give ah fat a token of appreciation. Just a small ang bao.. we do appreciate his hardwork and we want to thank him sincerely."

A fatal mistake.

Ah beng manager: "OK. U tell me how much u want to give? I will deduct from the deposit.

*Jef - pengz*
Jef: "We give him ang bao is out from our goodwill. Why should deduct from the deposit? We want to meet him and give him personally. We dun want to give company what.. "

Ah beng manager face turned black and keep insisting us to tell him how much we intend to give. He want us to give on the spot and even offered to give us a red packet to put in the money.

Fatal mistake.
This is totally crap lohr!! We had enuf. Our intention is to thank ah fat directly lohr.. why do we need to give him? Anyway, the amount is up to us, and this is between us and ah fat. Nothing gotta do him. We seriously think he dun understand English and Chinese.... the argument went on for quite a while. I tink i shd omit this quarreling part, otherwise i will spend 2days and 2nights sitting here typing. It ended with a sour situation with him talking louder and louder.

We are just glad that this is over and we have nothing gotta do with them anymore. Probably girls are more paranoid. I cant help but worrying that they might try to be funny especially they have our address. Nothing we can do now. Singapore law so strict, tink they wont lahr.. Hopefully, our reno will go on smoothly le.

Fio =)