I Will Miss the Sale...

Each year, I always look forward for the sale of SM Mall of Asia.  (Please see my last year's post on this by clicking this link.)

My most-awaited sale usually falls sometime between March and April, as well as, September and October.  Unfortunately, I won't be around.  :( I have a one-week seminar to attend at a far-away place somewhere at Commonwealth, Quezon City. :(

No, I don't consider myself a shopaholic.  However, when I was watching last night some scenes of the movie, Confessions of a Shopaholic, I begin to wonder, maybe I am one.. But I have to qualify, I still consider myself a certified kuripot.  I just go gaga when I find at the mall things that I like at a discounted price.

I'm so sad.  But I guess, I'll find a way. ;)

Energy Power Saver Is Not Effective!

I paid my MERALCO dues just two days ago, but not before I noticed that it was my lowest bill ever.  This now contradicts my claim which was previously posted in this blog that my November 2011 bill was my lowest.

In that post, I mentioned that starting January 2012, I won't be using my Extreme Power Saver anymore just to test if it is really working.  True enough, I did unplug the device and look, my February bill, which showed a 51-kwh consumption, approximates my September and October 2011 dues.  Also, my March bill further plummeted down to 34-kwh consumption.

Without the Extreme Power Saver, my electric consumption should have increased.  But my MERALCO bills for the past two months however showed otherwise.

I swear I did not try to do something to save on power cost.  In fact, for the past few weeks, I have been using the refrigerator more often than the usual.  Although I had been on training and was away home for almost two weeks, I was also not home for exactly two weeks when my power consumption dropped to 36 kwhs in November last year.

Now, will somebody just explain to me what went wrong?  Or if nobody cared enough, maybe, I would just simply conclude that, I have just fell prey to another false marketing strategy and therefore the Extreme Power Saver indeed is not effective.. :(

Watch? Or Cellphone?

I'm not fond of wristwatches (that may be the reason why almost all of my time pieces were given to me, a.k.a. donated).  Hence, when I was asked by Eastwest Bank to choose between a wristwatch and cellphone (as their freebie for a new credit card), I immediately opted for the latter.

Just this morning, I finally received my new credit card.  Attached with it was a voucher (see image on the right) that says, I may claim either a Timex Marathon T5K367 wristwatch or a Samsung E1080 cellphone.

The wristwatch looks cute.  As I wondered how much is its cost in the market, I then googled for Timex Philippines and found the contact number of its branch nearest my office, at SM Mall of Asia.  The person I talked to asked me first if I was referring to the Eastwest credit card promo before answering my inquiry.  Accordingly, the watch is priced at P2260+.

Since I already knew that the phone sells at around P1200, I begin to doubt whether the Timex man was telling the truth.  If the watch was indeed priced at P2260+, then why a big price disparity between the cost of two freebie items?

If you were asked to choose between a valuable item and a less-valuable item, common sense would tell you to take the former, wouldn't you?  To solve the problem, I inquired the phone's market value online and found this:

 It does not however include shipping fees.  But then, I still wonder..

I guess I will just have to go to the mall and verify it myself before making a decision between - a wristwatch or a cellphone. :)