LG issues Official Statement & Special Offer

@Happy LG Buyer

“I got my phone so how does that make me an idiot?”

It doesn’t. Because by the way you post even without buying that phone you are already an idiot in the first place. Heck you were born that way by the looks of it :D

did you see the ad? they cancelled the nov28 30% promo.

can someone give me a reference number to get the special promo?? plssss

got an email from LG here in cebu.
tag 10900 daw ang optimus. until november 23 ang reservation lang.

i traveled 2.5hrs (from Cavite)to get to Mega for the LG promo. I wasn’t setting my hopes high on getting the droid, simply by computing the odds of getting a phone (60 phones in 1 hour)i was sure mahirap makakuha. But still i went there for who knows baka makaswerte lang. I was there at 9:30am, when i saw the lines at 10am; I already decided no chance of getting the droid today.

Mas magaan dalhin if you accept the fact as it is.. let’s not dwell on the “Blame Game”. Cellphone lang yan, the fact that you went there early means you were willing to gamble your time and comfort to get a chance of “winning” a discounted droid.

We either win or we lose… di naman pwedeng win win na lang tayo lagi. We’re dissing each other over a phone, somebody outside megamall doesn’t even have P50.00 to buy a decent meal for her child.

Christmas na.. Peace be with all us… Amen.

Goodbye LG, mag-HTC wildfire na lang ako..d kalayuan price sa 30% discount offer ng LG..

In my opinion, it was really a good marketing activity for LG insofar as it gave them the CHEAPEST possible way to promote their phone, instead giving away flyers and making other shitty money-eating events like dealer launchings. Promote a little through viral marketing and sell a few phones below cost in the process was their only tactic.

But, the sad thing is, despite the fact that a lot of people actually got angry, the promo was still REALLY, REALLY effective. BAD PUBLICITY IS STILL PUBLICITY. After all this shit, everyone already knows the phone model right? So boo you, LG, for your very discretely effective marketing plan in which all of us already know that particular phone model.

Still, I don’t have an LG phone, and i don’t ever plan on buying one. I do have an LG LCD though, and it’s one of my best buys this year :)

LG still has to beg me to take up the 50% offer, LG just reminds me of too much cruelty to its potential customers.

pardon my language… to Andrew Song, you can shove your 20% into you ass.

so are you the one who drew up this genius promotion? where is your apology?

ok guys… time to move on.. ganyan talaga mga business establishments minsan. yaan nyo na. Kung totoong boycott LG just dont buy their items. Time to move on. Harsh reality.

wala panga akong na receive na call from LG.. D pa ata kumikilos ang LG cebu

@nebula
i will not buy lg for my own, ibebenta ko lang din sana. dont like their brand, i prefer sony ericsson or motorola for android

G Special Promo After One Day, One Hour, One Chance – LG Optimus One and Cookie Mini

From November 25-27, 2010, please visit our LG offices to be able to purchase any of the following models at discounted prices:

LG Optimus One with Google PHP 10,900
Cookie Mini PHP 4,000

Time
November 25 and 26, 2010 – 9am to 6pm
November 27, 2010 – 9am to 12nn

Location:
1. LG Electronics Philippines HQ (Pasig Office)
1fF Legaspi St. Maybunga Pasig City
2. LG Cebu
45 Capitol West Bldg, Don Gil Garcia St. cor Escario St, Cebu City
3. LG Davao
Door 1 and 8 Delgar Bldg, Km. 5, J.P. Laurel Avenue, Bajada, Davao City

Mode of Payment:
– Both cash and credit card straight payment will be accepted at Pasig Office.
– Cash payment only for Cebu and Davao offices.

http://www.magnustoday.net/2010/11/l…d-cookie-mini/

Sincerely yours,

Mr. Andrew Song
Vice President of Mobile Marketing
LG Electronics Philippines

We will also be having another 30% discount on LG Optimus One in all LG concept stores this coming December. If you choose to participate in this promotion, please note that there will also be limitations in the number of stocks that will be released.

Sa cebu, walang tinawagan/text.

no details of the 200list discounted sale.

@laft: nagsend kn ng complaint sa dti?

Never mind, I will get Samsung or HTC product na lang.

after this incident never buying another LG phone in my whole lifetime thanks LG you just lost another customer :(

it’s time to move on yeah, but i think this should be corrected so it wont happen again. i’m following up with DTI and LG coz we need justice for thousands of people who lined up.

@loselose: i will be proceeding with my complaint. malas lang nila nataon ng bakasyon ko ung ginawa nilang promo. hehe.. i am currently reading the consumer act para masuyod lahat ng violations nila and am currently composing my letter of complaint. i need names sana para mas maraming complainant. pero ok lang kung kahit kami2 na lang yung nakalagay dun. what’s impt is meron gumawa ng action against them db? i need to this before i move on. after nito siguro. wala naman personalan e. may ginawa silang mali dpat managot sila.

@jun
i agree… that’s what i am doing right now….

i think it’s tome to move on…

again, i’m one of those in the line and i have to say that their service really was bad on that day

but hey, let’s just all get over with it.

@winwin,

Isa rin ako sa mga nakasama mo sa admin office ng SM. Really? 20% discount lang? Diba sabi ni Mr. PR posible daw na the same ang offer? Whatttt… Nakakaasar, im expecting pa naman na by this week meron nakong fone.

So what’s our next action?

Mukhang naisahan tayo dun sa admin office ah.

Tuloy ba ang reklamo?

@che,

TATAWA NA BA KAMI??? MAGPAALAM KA KUNG MAG-JOJOKE
KA HA. PARA READY KAMI. BOBO!

guys i’m sending my complaint today sa dti. if any of you want in on the action, please email me at lgoptimusone****@****.***. i don’t know if it will help pag maraming nakacc sa complaint just so they know na hindi isolated yung reklamo. hindi ko rin alam how far my complaint will go but i would just like to do something aside from just complaining. malay mo db? i plan to email the people of lg din just so they know that a complaint was filed para just in case ndi maaksyunan un mangarag man lang sila. haha..

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6145/45627032.jpg

yan ang promo nila.

Si Happy LG Buyer kupal yan, nagpapanggap na nakabli ng Phone eh wala namang pera yan, yung pang internet nga nya inuutang pa…

MGA TAGA LG MGA KUPAL KAYO!!!!

YUNG LG KM555e ko nagloloko na nag BSOD na, puta pag nakauwi ako ibabato ko yun sa store.. Puta regalo pa man din sa akin ng misis ko yun..

Kupal ang cellphone nyo..

BOYCOTT LG Phones!!!!
BOYCOTT LG Phones!!!!
BOYCOTT LG Phones!!!!
BOYCOTT LG Phones!!!!

@Happy LG Buyer
maybe you havent realized it yet. buying an lg phone does not make you an idiot. you were already an idiot when you where born.

pinagsisihan na ng nanay mo baket ka pinanganak. iniwan ka na ng girlfriend no? sabi nag gf mo, mas masarap pa daw ako sayo. ulo mo daw parang gago.

To the managers of LG and Nokia: you should resign out of delicadeza, you just proved yourself unworthy and incompetent, dapat magharakiri nalang kayo, buti nalang hindi kayo mga Hapon

@paolo and others – alam po ng mga tao dto magbilang kung aabot sila. Most of them are near the front kaya ganyan nalang ang frustrations nila. Kahit man ako hindi nakakuha but im in top 40, when they announcd na 1 kahera lang nagalanganin na ako but nagbakasakali ako kaya i fell in line pa din. What the people here are so angry of is how they handled the event, the crowd. When the clock striked 230pm, kami yung natulak sa salamin ng mga katabing shops. Sa dami ng crowd, we were not able to push them back. Buti at walang nabasag na glass. Kahit pa may guard sa outer part ng crowd, wala silang nagawa. Bigla na lng pumasok ang mga lg personnel sa store nila at ang 1 mmda, 2 bouncer at 1 pang guard ay frozen na sa pinto ng lg. Wla na po silang nagawa habang ang mga tao ay naiipit. Kahit lg employees natakot na sa uncontrollable crowd dahil wala ng lumabas sa kanila. At eto pa, habang kami ay ipit na sa glass ng katabing fujifilm store, may 3 taga fujifilm na nakabili ng optimus p500 (they were the 5th in line) na pumasok sa store (fujifilm) nila. Karamihan ng pumila ay alam kung ano ang kakayahan ng optimus p500 kaya wag nyo maliitin na di sila marunong ng math. Hindi din natin masisi ang employees ng sm tenants na hindi man lang tumakbo sa pila dahil attractive ang price.

FALSE advertising! why don’t just say that you’re going to sell this “number” of units at each of your branches so that people will know beforehand if they can have what they came there for instead of having them wait for hours just for nothing

in fairness mas maganda ang statement nila kumpara sa nokia…

to be blunt, the people at LG just did their job. period. nothing less, nothing more. to them, this is just good business. diba? BS when they said that they are disappointed. BS when they said that they will fix things. yes, i am butthurt. but i do try to be neutral about this. people, they just did their job. yun lang. no hard feelings, no feelings whatsoever. trabaho lang, walang personalan. corporate bloodsuckers that they are.

Boycott LG! Let them feel the Power of the Consumer…We, Filipino Consumers, are not the kind of people to be toyed around for cheap Marketing Gimmicks! So I’m starting by not buying any LG Products, and discouraging friends and families from buying LG!

WALANG KUMUHA NANG CONTACT DETAILS NAMIN, PINAALIS NA LANG AGAD KAMI AFTER NUNG TIME, AT NUNG NAGKAKAGULO NA ANG TAO…. FUCK YOU LG AND NOKIA!

uu nga.. d nmn talga lahat mabibigyan mybe at 60+ lang.. kung maaus lang sana ang LG.. hmmmm

wew I wrote some typos. ^_^

I believe I need to sleep now. goodnight too all!

FREEDOM!

LG, please explain your side! We need to hear from you!

@Ed

Yes this act of making a noisy disturbance is what we call FREEDOM! Once again, TRUTH WILL SET US FREE.

I am sorry but not everyone thinks same as you, Ed.

Try to explain the your ideas to the grandpas, grandpas, and children who fell in line which they know they may have chance.

Well, if you think they should not be there, then that is DISCRIMINATION!

(I believe I am repeating myself again…)
You may refer to my post which I (SuperPinoy) replied on Nov 16th, 2010 at 2:44 am (75).

@daseq: see winwin’s message un ung asa email mismo.

@Ed

Please read the whole blog site and comments so your question/s will be answered. Your question has already been questioned and answered. Read and scroll all the way to the top! Good luck.

wew… many angry people… XD

anyway… anyone got word from LG regarding the “special offer?”

What’s this boycott thing? I’m sorry magalit na kayo sa akin pero sinabi naman ng LG na 1 hour window lang. Kung pang 100th ka na sa pila naghanap ka na lang sana ng may maigsing pila like pila sa KFC. Ang hirap lang umaasa siguro tayo na baka last minute magbago ng isip ang LG at pagbilhan lahat nang nasa pila.

actually those who want to get the optimus one are those who are there and those who observing the happening,
hope other brands came out with a better choice of Android with Froyo so the LG brand can drop death, so di malaki ulo nila, para stock na sila hangan maluma.

am sure before xmas, there will be many 2.2 Android phone in the market at good price. 3.0 is already baking & ready to serve soon.

@winwin: yes. i dunno kung sino c kuntil but nareceive nila ung msg na hinimatay nga raw c fatima. sinabihan n raw nila kc na kumain na ndi p rin kumain kaya ayun hinimatay. pero ok naman na raw. c fatima kc ung nagsabi sa mga tao na wag umalis sa pila. kaya nga sabi ang tanong ko kung sa kanya lang ba un galing o utos lang din un sa kanya na un un sabihin. irregardless ndi p rin tama ung ginawa nila.

@lgisgoingdown so kayo pala un nandun sa kabilang office. nagpakilala naman din siguro sa inyo si kuntil noh? si fatima alam mo bang hinimatay un around 6pm yata? dinala siya ng medical team ng STI sa clinic nila. kasi people were blaming her.

@Manix

for your questions:

“but i guess what my question is really asking for–how much are we willing to take?

is being counter-offered enough to make us feel better? is that really worth the aggravation?”

my answer for those:

Emotions like Aggravation or Frustration, an emotional response, is intangible and can not be barely measured.

Once again, they/LG just need to admit and apologize about their mistakes. The truth will set us FREE.

If they will offer another discount or repeat such event in a not deceiving and good way this time then it means that they are really affirming and apologizing about their mistakes.

That would be a good news if that will happen.

They/LG just need to clean the mess they have done.

They also need to promise that such happening will never happen again.

Also, they must do something about this:
http://saverapurapu.blogspot.com/

So in short, we just need the truth. The truth is that their/LG’s such event were obviously deceiving.

If you are going to ask me what made it deceiving, please read my or some people’s previous comments.

(Please also read my previous comments above before asking question/s. Some previous comments I posted might answer your question/s so that I will not be repeating myself for clarifications.)

@OMG

I have recently seen myself in the mirror. And you know what i saw?

I saw FREEDOM & TRUTH.

The more it clears to me.

And we, who fell in line and believed LG with their broken hopes, still have more where it came from.

The more you ask, the more it will be cleared.

Let me ask you this:

Do you believe in God?

If no, then I pity you. Please refer to the link below for more information:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRD_ozs4KI

Else, if yes, then please understand our situation. I believe you have the heart to understand our emotions. What was have taken from us is the TRUST as customer/consumer.

They should take good care of their customers/consumers.

Once again, I have said this on my previous comments, What were they up to? Were they up to sales or to customers?

(Please also read my previous comments above before asking question/s. Some previous comments I posted might answer your question/s so I will not be repeating myself for clarifications.)

@curuious lang: exactly my point! kung simula pa lang naging tapat sila sa mga tao wala sanag gulo.

just received the offer. no apologies whatsoever and they’re offering the unit at 20% less. i ask you, is 20% enough for the cost of your pride and principles?

One question, BAKIT HINDI PINUTOL NG KAHIT ISANG LG STAFF ANG PILA GAYONG ALAM NAMAN NILA NA HINDI SILA TALAGA AABOT? KUNG PINUTOL LANG NILA YUNG LINE KAHIT DUN SA 1st 50 PERSONS SA PILA. WALA SANA PROBLEMA

edi wag ka magbasa kung naiinis ka hehe

exactly! sm is supplier ng security nila. c beth cruz-garbo manager sa sm. asawa nya ung pinasingit nya. i complained to lg personnel twice. sabi ko patutunayan ko na nasa likuran yan ng pila. hindi nila ko masagot pero wala rin silang ginawa. meaning with consent un pangyayaring un. habang nagbabayad yung asawa nya c ms cruz-garbo ay nakikipag tawanan sa mga guard na nagbabantay. tama ba un?

@lgisgoingdown un ang masama dun kamag anak ang pinasingit e bawal un d ba?

@lgisgoingdown

i see in you the principle, and will stand for what you believe in.

anyone else?

@Jericho Lhuillier

ok lang bro wlang problema…baka tga LG yung gumamit ng pangalan mo…kapal ng face ha!

On the other hand Hope this comments will be address to someone who is concern for this especially to LG…baka mawalan kayo ng customer nyan..!!!..It might give your ” Life not Good ” after its the company’s lost not us customers..

peace

@mark: there are some who weren’t satisfied din with the way the things were handled. i applaud those kasi hindi lang sarili nila ung iniicp nila. nakakainisnung mga taong nakakuha na nakuha pang mgyabang. walang pinagkaiba sa mga corrupt sa gobyerno na nandaya na ipinagyabang pa ung kalokohan nila. ako nasa unahan ng pila but hindi pa rin nakakuha. ok lang hindi naman ako nahirapan. pero naawa lang ako sa mga tao n umaga pa lang nakikiusap na sa mga organizers na idisband ung pila. at nagagalit ako sa magaling na manager ng mrgatrade na si ELIZABETH GARBO na ndi lang pinapila ung kawawa nyang tauhan bukod sa asawa nya, isiningit pa sa unahan ng pila para siguradong makakuha.

Once is enough for a wise man.

If such epic fail due to deceiving advertisement/event from LG will happen again, I will absolutely closing my doors.

isa pa naninindigan ako na lahat ng nakapila dun ng 2-3 dapat nakabili ng celfone at promo price. malinaw sa mechanics ng promo nila na to avail you must go to the store between 2-3pm. walang nakalagay dun na dapat nabili n ung done by 3pm. it is implied but not explicitly stated. at ayon sa ating batas kung ano ung nakalagay sa mechanics yun dapat ung sinunod nila. kahit pa sabihin na nagkamali lang sila sa pagprint nun. they owe us a fone and an apology. not the other way around. SILA ANG NAGKAMALI. wala silang karapatan na magmayabang at magbigay ng limos.

@Manix

If God can forgive, how much more us. We are only human beings. We, who fell in line, are not closing our doors. Even a single apology from them is enough. They/LG just need to admit their mistakes.

If they will offer another discount or repeat such event in a not deceiving and good way this time then it means that they are really affirming and apologizing about their mistakes.

That would be a good news if that will happen.

They/LG just need to clean the mess they have done.

They also need to promise that such happening will never happen again.

Also, they must do something about this:
http://saverapurapu.blogspot.com/

ano yan? LIMOS?
if they are sincere, make it as advertised, all who are in line at 2-3pm will get 50% off.
don’t accept for anything less than what you deserved to get

@lgisgoingdown: can i know any of your contact info? usap tayo

tinawagan ako kanina ng taga-LG and may ise-send daw silang email from their VP ..di ko alam kung anong kalokohan meron dun

@ winwin: i managed to talk to them too on SM Megamall’s customer relations office and asked us to list our names and contact info but it was around before 6pm

anyone got a call from LG here in cebu?

marami silang tatawagan. 2000 daw un nsa list. within the day daw nila ieemail yung galing sa vp.

Ano kaya yung special offer ng LG na yan?

with regard to the statement above of LG. They called me through my CP number. A very nice representative from LG. she said that the LG vice-pres. will be sending email to my personal email (but for sure it’s a templated message that will be send out to complainants). she verified all my personal contact details and was told that if i have questions about the email, she gave me a number to call and an email address also.

PS: im one of the people who filed formal complaint to SM admin it was around 7PM when LG reps came in the office and apologized and they promised us that LG will be contacting us so we wrote our emails and contact numbers on a piece of paper.

We have created a team to call all the people in our database we got last Saturday. To have centralized info sources, they will be the one to contact you as regards the offer. They are now calling all the people in the list.

@lgisgoingdown: anong meron sa email nila?

SAN galing yon una sa pila eh pag bukas ng mall may naka pila na….!

“I got my phone so how does that make me an idiot?…” if this is your idea of a logical argument then you surely are an idiot.

“I can tell you I would have gone home…” cut the bullcrap, anyone knows how to say that same phrase AFTER the event.

“I was smart enough to pass the correct entrance unlike you who surely took the long route…” yeah yeah yeah there’s not a single soul standing in front of the mall entrance at the 4th floor annex parking lot.

“The problem with those who are complaining…” welcome to reality idiot.

“Grow up kids and welcome…” I just said, welcome to reality. On the contrary, it’s you who needs growing up.

“Boycott all you want, cry, blog, complain” you don’t have to tell us that you idiot unless this is the first time you heard of Freedom of Speech

“p.s. Angry Birds is a really fun…” OMG, sounds like you have reach ecstasy playing that game. That game is so old news. You’re such a lame low life hypocrite if you think you could tease people here.

anyone here got a call from them?

Let us not FORGET what LG Phils (mobile/handset division) have done to us. Their enduser promo seems so very attractive then but patronizing it made us all experience HELL.

We became in some way their victims just to create a HYPE on their Optimus P500.

To LG Phils. (mobile/handset division), you did not plan well your event. ADMIT YOUR MISTAKES. IT IS A FAILURE

@Happy LG Buyer or whoever/whatever you are

Not everyone thinks same as you.

There are old people and kids who fell in line. They should Didn’t you know that? Please do not be selfish. What we are only pointing @ is the way they deceive the poor minds of people. Yeah, you might be an educated one but think of this: that will not get you there in heaven. Please be sympathetic or empathic about the situation. There is even a report about a girl died because of the event. Try this link:

http://symbianize.com/showthread.php?p=4362258

The one who reported has a alias of “qwertylover56”. qwertylover56 even said she was able to buy the LG for a half price but she hated the way LG did the event. “Deceiving!!!”, she said.

And I even saw a person in a wheelchair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeaYgRwlmbk

So, please be merciful. Mercy your soul.

Fuck LG, let’s just move on, but remember what LG has done to us and boycott their products, simple as that.

@Happy LG Buyer or whoever/whatever you are

Do you believe in God?

If you don’t, I pity on you. Please refer to the link below for more information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRD_ozs4KI

If you do, please be sympathetic or empathic enough to understand the situation.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. mercy your soul.

I SWEAR HINDI AKO BIBILI ANY LG PRODUCTS… and good thing even 1 item i didnt spend something for LG products and will continue to hate and boycott them for the rest of my lifespan.

SANA MALUGI SILA … SANA HINDI NILA MA REGAIN ANG MARKET SHARE NILA SANA MABURA ANG LG SA MUNDO!!!!

@Happy LG Buyer – GO TO HELL!!!!

*LG Optimus P500 enduser promotion is a FAILURE!!!

*”commit suicide”
– CRAZY!!! that is your idea…why don’t you do it!! IDIOT!!!

*”p.s. I love my new LG-P500 esp. cause I got it at half price”
– ENJOY IT!! kahit SRP nyan kaya naman bumili.

*”If you’re in line and you can figure out that even if they sell 1 phone per minute, they can only sell 60 phones. If you are number 100 in line, you’re stupid to stay in line for hours knowing you won’t be served”
– ALAM NAMIN LAHAT YAN! point is nanloko ang LG Phils…saka eh di sana sinabihan mo mga ka-opisina mo (kunyari ka pa!! putang ina ka! taga LG KA!!)..everyone on the 100 spot WAS ASKING LG staff to CUT THE LINE prior the 2pm (see yung mga nakapila pa nag sasuggest to CUT THE LINE!!) pero ano sabi nyo!? “marami po makakakuha!!”

*”A first grader can understand that the sale period is 2pm till 3pm.”
-yan logic mo pang kindergarten STUPID!! next time use a brilliant one…poor you!

“I arrived 10 min before the mall open”

10 mins my ass. Hundreds of people were there hours before the mall open and you’re telling me you beat them to the store? FU! Either you’re one of those effing fags who cuts line OR you’re among the store personnels inside SM. And you call that strategy? Effing loser.

“If you are gonna commit suicide because…” are you a retard? No one here’s gonna commit suicide! But you will if ever you didn’t get a phone after all so called your “strategy” fail.

STF up with that “one hour”. One hour, one day, one big failure for LG you effing idiot.

Don’t worry, we’re not looking for shit from LG again. If you think of it as good fortune, then so be it. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Most of us realize that nothing in this world is fair. I think you’re the one who doesn’t. I’m not part of the people who queue up in LG (cause I have a C6). I’m sympathizing with the people queued up in LG but not getting one. Now tell me if I’m being unfair to you by bashing you and you alone. Idiot.

Aren’t you the cute little moron? Could you stop being an idiot? If it wasn’t because it’s being powered by Android 2.2 and at 50% off, that thing would just be a meaningless and expensive crap like most of it’s ancestral phone. Aren’t you even aware why LG has such a promo? Because their sales in phone SUCKS and they resorted to such promo to ATTRACT CUSTOMER! What good is the promo if it gets few measly but overly satisfied customer like you but ending up angering the thousands?

“ONE DAY. ONE HOUR. 0 CHANCE” Get it? ZERO CHANCE!!! LG OPTIMUS One Special Introductory Sale…Yan dapat nilagay sa harap ng LG concept stores, because that’s what actually happened! eh di wala sanang pila…kung meron man yun lang 10-15 persons na kachukaran nyo, SM employees na sitting pretty don sa tapat ng store na hinde man lang pinagpawisan at naglakad lang papunta don! Walang kwenta! (Take note, pang Top 20-25 kame sa pila infront of that LG store sa SM North few mins after 10AM. Pero madami ang singit sa harap namin, grupo pa sila! http://optimusonesale.blogspot.com/

@happy LG buyer: easy for you to say those things kasi hindi ka sa dulo ng pila. LG didn’t even bother to inform yung nasa dulo na 30 freakin LG unit lang bebenta. I was in mega that day but didn’t bother to join the long line pero i feel for those who have waited. Boycott LG guys.

@Jericho, ok.

OnT: I think this was a WIN situation for LG. This blog post already generated 90+ comments overnight. bad publicity is still publicity.

i was one who waited for 5 long hours at SM Cebu but i was not lucky. number 35 in the line but only 30 units served. 2 sales girls only super slow. pag bayad pa ng credit card somebody will go to other store around 50 meters away to swipe the card.@$#%!&*^!$*. dapat ang DTI won’t allow this kind of promo in the future not only for LG and Nokia but to all.DTI must be also blamed what happened last saturday. SUCKS PROMO!

I’m not happy to what happened, LG made the people hope by saying “we have unlimited stocks” adding up “We will accommodate as many as we can in the 1 hour period”

In this words, people were hopeful even they are in the 100th line. Plus adding up to Sir Yuga’s word before “DO NOT DEMO” thus maybe people behind will still have a chance.

Special offer to those who gave contacts? What about the people who were all the way in the basement line?

At least nokia admitted that they have limited stocks not like LG.

The official statement is just a thank you letter and a very minor apology compared to what really happened. Plus they didn’t say any official statement if there is really a casualty in the fiasco, also to the hundreds that got bruises and even cuts from the wild crowd.

Save Rapu-rapu from disaster brought by LG … pulosyon …. pagkamatay ng likas na yaman ng bApinas ang dulot ng pagtangkilik sa lintik na Lg na yan. Manloloko pa sa bogus at di tunay na marketing promo nila. Pati mga mamimili na kababayan natin pinaaasa at pinag hihintay sa wala. Kasabwat pa naman ang DTI. Kasi ganid ang mga taga LG ….. Life is not Good Laking Ganid …. do not patronize LG products eve again ….

Shut up Happy LG Buyer your such a effing hypo first grader knows no shit effing idiot! First grader only knows how to queue for candies and will queue for hours unaware of time!

Carefuly-plan-your-strategy my ass! You just happen to be the first few people in the line. There’s no planning in a rush attack because that’s basically it! I bet you’re the person to suicide if you happened to be 30th person and didn’t get a phone.

LG failed in a lot of angles including not disclosing information. If you don’t have info, you’re not willing to give up the line! You’re even more pathetic, Happy LG Buyer, wagging your tail above a den of hungry lions.

@Happy LG Buyer

did you arrive at the mall at 5am (was first), and lined up along with the other organized people?

because i did. and i have no phone. and i dont believe anyone in my line got one.

careful my ass.

what’s that special offer? zzzz

@Arvee
a lot of people are new here hence they have no idea that the Makuto persona is a troll impersonating GM Tristan.

People don’t even bother to check the gravatar hash :/

Naaah, you are all wrong, do not boycott LG. Clearly, it’s the marketting department that bungled the promo. C’mon LG, we want to see some heads roll. Fire your marketting head!!!

another bull crapping.

commonsense din sa mga tao.. do the math kasi! nung nakita na sobrang haba ng pila, na imposibleng aabot sa 1 hour sale window, sana umalis na!

kahit sabihin nating may stock sila na marami, imposible namang 10 units per minute ang mabenta.. sa liit ba naman ng store at konti ng personnels. hindi namn kasi pdeng isang abot ng bayad, ng unit, alis agad. hahays..

sana nagobserve kasi! tsk tsk.. LG failed bigtime on this..don’t blame the event solely sa LG..

I can’t believe some comments are even discussing compensations for time na sana sa family na lang nilaan..

choice niyo po un nu.. haha

We, Filipinos, are fighters, hopefuls and risk takers. That is why we fell in line to such event.

What we, who fell in line, were or are pointing @ is the way you/LG managed your consumers/customers in such event.

You/LG should be on top of this. The consumers/customers sensed the Ad before the consumers/customers fell in line. Your name as LG was on the Ad. Even if it is the lack of just somebody or part of the crew of such event, still you/LG(the Big Name on the Ad) should be blamed or questioned. That is the reality/true rule of the world you are moving in.

It is just like a family or organization. If a member made mistake/s or sin/s, then the PARENT or the PRESIDENT must be questioned by the affected factors(or persons — well in our case, CUSTOMERS/CONSUMERS).

In brief rationale, we are looking at you/LG, and you are looking at your staffs or members who worked under or for you.

CUSTOMERS ARE CUSTOMERS.

The event happened was an obvious way of telling that you/LG are more persuader than them(or the other side). Please, LG, do not make us ignorant or stupid. We, who fell in line, are not that naive. We, who fell in line, were really affected. Without customers/consumers, you can not make sales. Even if you say that we should not be there if we know that it will gonna happen(no chance), still we would come for/because again we are fighters(like Manny Pacquiao—who just recently won the Manny Pacquiao & Margarito boxing fight), risk takers(like Charice Pempengco) and hopefuls.

Fighter, risk taker and/or hopeful type of people are the people who live and who knows FREEDOM.

We, who fell in line, were sure buyers. The way you advertise was very obviously deceiving.

In short, your CUSTOMER’S CONVENIENCY skill was very disappointing and unethical in the world of SALES.

I personally fell in line. I was just 2 customers away from the cut off(last buyer of such promo–1 hour only). I even prevented my urine to come out just to get the chance. I started to fall in line at 8am until 3pm(when the 1 hour sale event ended), Philippines time. The host was still announcing that there are more items however he never said the possibilities of the pace of the transaction. The host did not even to manage to announce the difficulty of getting the chance so that we will not be wasting our time waiting. There were thousands of people waiting to get their chance out of 20 items only sold however still the host did not even announce to these thousands of people waiting about the possibilities of not getting the chance. LG, we have believed in you but because of what happened, thousands of people’s LIFE is no GOOD in that time due to broken hopes you were rendering. The host was only announcing that they are the only one who has that kind of event(1 hour sale 50 % off for unlimited–no exact number of such item/s). That is deceiving.

If you want more people but less items, why not do it in Entertainment instead?

Now LG, please confirm/answer this(simple yes or no question):

Were you up to the customer or to the sale?

If customer, then something good(or I shouldn’t be doing this) must have happened.

Else, if sale, then you are not a good example.

In other words, the question is, Sale before Customer or Customer before Sale?

Please answer all the question LG. I personally beg you. We, who fell in line, were really badly affected.

mga less than 20 lang nkabili sa cebu…
fake un advertisement nila… ang bagal pa ng service kaya in 1 hour less than 20 lang nkabili..
loko nila
BOYCOTT NA LG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so much talk and fight over a silly phone. look at yourselves guys! get it over with! life is unfair, suck it up!

no i’m not flaming. just hoping that you guys finally wake up from this. time to move on, live life.

@Jiro…

Sorry if di nga ikaw yun…

*Peace!*

^_^

…and funny thing that paper…I visited my friend who was maybe about the 60th person in line from the LG both. The LG personnel was letting people sign who were not even in the line. These people were wives and friends of LG staff and SM Management. LG really sucks!

I was at the ground floor. In line. Together with a lot of people. We were never informed na-cut na ung line. Instead the organizer himself, the one wearing white inside the LG booth, who seems managing things, even went down and took pictures of how many people fell in line. It’s silly how they say they informed na nacut na ung line, if we were informed, people won’t wait for 5 hours.

I am better off with my trusty Ninoy & Cory phone. With LG — Life is not So Good …. join me and the rest of our county men. Let us stop buying LG products. Do not patronize false and mis-leading LG marketing strategies. Lg is fooling our fellow country men while polluting Rapu-rapu …. remember with LG – Life is not Good !

To the following commenter above:
lg, Jeff, Jularbal, Mamamayang Pilipino, YuYu and to the rest of the commenter.
I would like to clarify na hindi po ako ang nag comment ng mga yan. Someone just using my nickname and it happen he/she manage to get and use my gravatar email address. I already sent an email to Abraham Olandres to address this issue. The real me is Jericho Lhuillier a.k.a Jiro Yan. I NO longer using my nickname to post a comment here since that person using my nickname and posted rude comments in this blog. You can find me on Facebook if you want to know the real me. Or you can send me an email at jir****@****.***

Thanks.

Do you really want to know who to blame on this LG promo fiasco? Lets Create a Scenario then.

1. LG wants to promote a phone.
2. LG ask their AD agency to submit a proposal.
3. AD Agency presented a proposal with a price.
4. LG approve the proposal with their inputs.
5. AD Agency implemented their proposal to the fullest knowing fully well the limitation of the Promotion. Why? because that is what they are paid for.
6. LG assumes that their inputs was considered in implementing the promotion.
7. AD Agency promoted the Scheme from B – C sector of the market knowing fully well that the promo has limitation and was not included in the study of the program. Still they continue to promote the program from B to C because that is what they promise in their proposal. Ad agency underestimated the buying power of their target market.
8. LG was dumbfounded to see throngs of eager buyers knowing that they only intended to sell limited number of units.
9. AD Agency was happy to see that their promotion really works and lately realized that the number of eager buyers is far more than what the LG intended to sell.
10. LG and Ad agency tried to cover up their shortcomings.

In conclusion, the AD Agency was fired and the LG Head was recalled back to Korea to sweep floors. The New LG Country Manager arrive and issued an apology but is unwilling to rectify the wrong done by his/her predecessor. LG continue to receive bad press and never recovered its market.

That my dear readers is only a scenario concocted due to drinking too much coffee.

Disclaimer: LG was mentioned openly because this is LG Promo Fiasco. the Ad Agency will remain nameless because i dont know them. LOL

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hahahaha may isang apple fanboi nanaman sa bandang itaas then isang website owner.. nag blog kayo for marketing strategy of your own websites huh….??? di eepek yan!!!…

yung mga gugong pinansin naman hahahaha….

the damage has been done LG…!!!! instead na mag apologize talagang tigas ng mukha na lang sa non-sense statement nila…

well take the consequences of what your done…!!!
have a sad xmas LG!

@phiLLip
Merong nakabili (around a hundred units in the metro?), marami lang butthurt.

Mga kababayan Tayo na Sali na Po http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-LG-Philippines/169832446378756?v=wall

what if this is LG’s plan all along, that they are actually retailing these phones at 7.5/8k?
then they create this gimmick and sell a few @ 6.5k?

this would create the needed hype/advertisment and when they finally pseudo-give in to the masses, they will sell these babies @ the actual price of 7.5k.

LG wins, Consumers thought they won too.

hehe.

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wala silang planong magsell ng 50% off…
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weh? nakasulat ako dun sa papel nilang pinafill-up… d pa nmn kumuntak un LG…BOOOOO…..

@mon, tapang ah!

(despite clarificatory announcements made by LG personnel)

what? na maraming makabibili ng phone kaya wag kayong umalis sa “pila” ninyo?

most of the people know that it would be a one-hour sale. kaya nga mala amazing race na to dash to the store eh. what we don’t know is that babagalan nila ang pag-sell ng phone at di nila aayusin ang pila.

crazy deal + kawalan ng disiplina ng pilipino sa pila (in general) = disaster. pero sana man lang ginawa ng LG ang lahat ng makakaya nila. pag nag sale naman ang SM dept store sinisugurado naman nila na di tayo malulungkot diba? sana parang ganun ginawa ninyo. (like magdagdag ng cashier, for instance) otherwise, parang ang pangit ng goal ng publicity, to make the phone be “wanted”. may pa “expirience froyo” pa kayong nalalaman.

ang ideya ko nga parang mala black friday eh. tipong kaliwaan. pwede naman silang bumalik kung may sira eh, 7 days replacement, meron pang waranty. so dapat naging unboxing + payment, no demo na

pinakalat na papel? ni hindi umabot sa dulo yan.

hindi kayo malulugi masyado sa 50% sale. eh yung gastos ninyo sa ads (full page ad, radio plugs), diba mas malaki ng dihamak yun sa 50% loss ninyo on the units?

market research. filipinos love sales, some dont behave their best in queues.

never heard of that “clarificatory announcement” from anyone in their staff. as in never in my 5hrs of lining up. this statement instead of appeasing the people who went there will just arouse more their anger towards this company. this is not the kind of statement people expect from them. if they could have been humble enough to say “SORRY” to us. so disappointing…

sana hindi yung mga taong kinausap lang ng LG team sa office ng SM

unsolicited advise lang sa mga taga lg. before you do any promo please do your research first. andun lang sa website ng dti lahat ng kailangan nyo. matuto kayo magbasa at umintindi. hindi yung puro panggogoyo lang asa utak nyo.

congratulations lg! you just bungled things up more. why don’t you let the bigwigs from your global offices handle this instead. clearly none of you are able to handle anything properly.

ano naman this time?
another line up?
parang awa mo na LG, give all who sign up & all who are there the 50% discount they deserve.

include a sorry note when they purchase their units at half price, may be we can forgive you, just may be lang,

what now is the follow up gimmick LG trying to trick us this time.

you know why they are so fast in issuing a statement? because they were preparingbit since saturday. nokia didn’t bungle things up as much as they did. they have more to answer for.

Sa Davao di sila kumuha ng mga contact details ng mga pumila last saturday… :(

Here’s my theory. LG originally wanted to sell a ton of units but didn’t want to cut their prices. So they put up a sale for 50% off and make people “want” their phone. Then purposely make the sale fail, and then contact the rest of the people in line with the offer they originally planned for. Which is, say, 30% off. This way, all of the potential buyers of the 50% off tag would tentatively settle for 30% off and think they actually got a bargain by lining up and writing their names.

Am I getting warm?

That said, nobody in their right mind would put their name in some stupid paper. Hello? People pass that paper around. All your private information in that little paper. Second, its obviously just so LG can spam you more “promos”.

Third, only a minute fraction filled up that paper because nobody gave a damn. I didn’t, and also, they never made us write on the paper because we were part of the line that they deemed to still “have a chance at getting the phone”.

To do this promo right, you need to offer this new promo to everybody. But, if in fact, they actually indeed plan on selling it on the promo price, then they’ll obviously open it to everybody instead of just the people in the list.

So there you go, if LG goes out and puts this phone on sale again for the rest of us, it merely means its what they planned to do all along: putting it up on a price, then inviting everybody to a 50% off sale, failing, then offering everybody a consolation sale.

By failing at the original sale and offering a consolation sale, you convince the customer that you’re actually trying to win them back. But in fact, that’s what you planned all along.

@Mamamayang Pilipino

that attitude wont bring you to heaven too

npkunfair talaga! . . just imagine papano nlng ung mga nndun sa unahan na nde pa rin nkkuha nung unit and at the same eh nde pa cla nksulat dun sa list compare dun sa mga tao na pdaan2 lng n nkasulat so ibg sbhin msmkkuha pa ng special offer ung mga nde pumila kesa dun sa mga pumila na nde nksulat! . . (i hope n-gets nio ung cnabi ko) . . . well all I can say sa LG right now . . . They’re up to no good! . . DAMN!

@Jiro Yan and Mon Makoto

Suntukan nalang tayo para mag ka alaman na!!!! Para sino kayong mayaman….kahit gano pa kayo ka yaman hindi mo yan madadala sa langit pre…mga bakla!!!

@Jeff Jularbal

Pretenses, pretenses. when will you FLIP ever learn?

@Jiro Yan

Pasensya ka na samin kasi di kami pinanganak na mayaman katulad mo.

Kasi yung Pambili namin Pinaghirapan naming Ipunin/Pagtrabahuhan kaya bawat Piso samin ay mahalaga di tulad mong pinang ii Starbucks mo lang ang pera mo na pangkain na ng isang buond pamilya sa isang araw……

@Sir Yuga/Abe
Tama po si sir Ian Villar.
Pano po yung mga nagpunta na hindi nakapag bigay ng Contact Details sa LG?

Haaayzz.Gusto ko talaga ng bagong phone….

Jiro Yan, stop promoting your blog by riding with the issue. mas pulubi ka, kahit traffic nililimos mo sa blog na to

Just boycott this

hahaha! This is “Marketing Strategies”

didn’t get a chance to give my details to the customer reps either. I was at least 5 steps away from the LG store entrance. frustrations. sigh.

i hope next time, they’d actually enforce stricter lines. like at megamall. #northedsafail

naku nmn, kwawa nmn mga pumunta… dapat fair lang yung i-ooffer na yan.

Two words only describe those promos.
“Marketing Strategies”

but, I believe they still haven’t reach their target sale of 12 million :)

You may check it on youtube regarding their launch for LG Optimus P500