Selling disappointments

Last April 5, 2014, there were a couple of sales that we wanted to check out. Chea wanted to see the Sogo Home and Office furniture sale, while I wanted to check out the Abenson's open box sale, both happening on April 4-6, 2014.

Chea had a check-up during the morning, so we went to the sales during the afternoon. We brought Tita Fe and Thirdy along with us.

SOGO Furniture's ad you can see online.

After visiting the columbarium, we headed to Mandaluyong City. Since we didn't know exactly where the warehouse was, we again turned to Google Maps to find where Williams Street in Pioneer was. Turns out it was behind Unilab.

We parked and left Tita Fe and Thirdy inside the car as the kid fell asleep during the drive here.

The hallway directly from the main entrance

Upon entering, you'd probably get euphoric with the large assortment of items on display. But as soon as you start checking the prices, you'd get disappointed just as quickly.

The very dirty children's chairs you see in the above picture in the lower right cost 700 pesos. Amazing isn't it? You'd probably get that in divisoria for around 200 pesos or less.

Our main reason for coming here was to check out their sofas. And to tell you the truth, it was such a wasted effort. I couldn't believe the prices on everything that was on display. Chea and I even started thinking that everything was marked up, and then given a supposed 'big discount'.

There were sofas that were 'originally' sold for 45,000 pesos and above, but were given a huge discount to have a final price of something less than 20,000 pesos. But if you take a close look at them, you'd be surprised why such simple, plain looking sofas cost upwards of 40,000 pesos in the first place.

You'd feel incredulous at some of the more cheaper ones, that were being sold at a discounted price of between 8,000 to 12,000 pesos. I found their original prices quite incredible.

Pork here. Lol.

So after less than 15 minutes, we high tailed it out of there. Since it was past 3pm, and Chea didn't have her lunch yet, we looked around Kapitolyo for a place to eat. We ended up at Gostoso, a restaurant specializing in portuguese roasted dishes. I'll write about it in a separate entry.

After that, we headed to Abenson's Greenhills, since that was the SMS I got from BPI. Checking on Google Maps, it's along Missouri Street.

We were greeted by a fully packed parking lot. There were a lot of people inside, and most, if not all of the items on display were on discount. But again, I was disappointed. The SMS ad said it was an open box sale. It made me think that they were selling their demo units, or the ones with ruined packages. Because if they were, I found the prices unattractive.

I was hoping to get my hands on a 32" LCD or LED TV. Those cost about 10,000 to 15,000 pesos nowadays, depending on the brand. So a 12,000 peso 32" tv with around 30% discount (hey, they said open box right?), would come to about 8,400 pesos. Unfortunately, none of the 32" TVs were being sold even less than 11,000 pesos. So again, I was disappointed.

There was a 42" plasma tv being sold at around 18,000 pesos. But I'm not into plasma TVs, so that didn't tempt me one bit. There was a 50" LED TV being sold for a few pesos shy of 30,000 pesos, but again, I just wanted something inexpensive to watch movies and play games on, while Thirdy watches on our existing TV.

So with that, it was a pretty disappointing day. We then went to Cherry Foodarama to buy some groceries before heading home and calling it a night.