Direct selling

25june 2009

Someone went to my house, they are two direct selling staffs selling water filtration product..They introduce themselves as marketing student from a government university(better not mention which university).They will get a ensured scholarship sponsored by the company with a condition that they must sell the company's products to earn more than 300 points in 4 months provided. The filtration device seems like simple stuff, like ordinary plastic feature,with four filtration chambers, cylinder in shape..

At first, we asked the price, but the salesgirls seem to ignore the question and continue convincing us with a lots of evidence from the file she brought along. We kind of convinced with her until she told us the price..waaaa...it cost nearly 3k althought after so called "student discount".Maybe, it is expensive.But by naked eye, we see the things that made up the product seem to look cheap.

She also do many demo to show us the different in chlorine level in filtered water by this device and tap water..She put some drop of testing reagent and the different kind of water started to give different colours..And guided by a file filled with articles,she told us different colours tell different level of chlorine, and showing us which water contain chlorine the most.Shockingly, it is the cooked tap water> tap water> filtered water by the device. It's kind of convincing until I asked myself, what is the scientific name of the reagent that they use? They just answered me that it is "auto reader from Jabatan Air".I feel guilty to ask more, than I started keep quite and let my mom hear all the talks.

I admire these two students efforts to get a scholarship, but me as people who is not use to marketing or whatever, I still think that the way they persuades people to buy is kind of urging and forcing..How come they can't give up after being told "no" for 10 times??huh?!But at least they don't give up trying..That's also a good quality.

This incident give me a very useful experience..seeing a student at my age to talk and convince people like that really give a "wow" impression in me.But it also teaches me to held any desire and not easily taken by it while making a CRUCIAL decision.and...not to BELIEVE in people or thing so easily..When talking about believing, it must be evidence-based.and again when talking about being evidence-based, we must first make sure that the EVIDENT is reliable before really taking it into consideration and start BELIEVING.(Mustaqim must love this..hehehe..believe??)

I purposely blurred it, identity of students are protected..hehe..

I'm sorry if the product is really made up of expensive material and the reagent to test the water is really proved to be efficient in knowing the chlorine level..But for me doubting is still good in certain condition..Convince me!What do you think??