Lucia wrote:

i hope many readers of your blog who had experience shopping in low yat would come out to let us know which shops are lansi, lousy, stupid, rude, cut-throat and so on. i intend to go to kl soon and intend to shop around low yat. don’t wanna run into some of these ‘no good’ shops.

So far I think ALL IT Hypermarket has good reputation. It has won some awards. The merchandise they carry are also quite up-to-date. Its business consultant, an Ang Moh, is very professional. I once bought a SIM card reader which turned out to be defective physical-wise and he arranged for an immediate exchange for a new one. Their employees are not likely to bullshit you if they are not certain of what you want.

The key to doing business with ALL IT is that you should also be ‘professional’ and not ‘unreasonable’. They will listen and take you seriously, refering you to their seniors promptly if they fail to deal with your problem. I like to chat with their staffs coz some of them really know their stuffs when compared to those Ah Bengs and Ah Lians working in the neighbourhood. For example, almost all the employees in that HP center next to them know testicles. You would wish you were there when I skinned one of their staffs alive in front of his manager and that the said managers almost went for the fire extinguisher if not calling for Bomba.

Currently, ALL IT is running some customer reward programme. For every 100 ringgit you spent, you’ll get one stamp. You can exchange your stamps for gifts. But it’s expiring end of this year. Nothing much, but at least they are trying.

Computer Electronics (CE), as I like to call it instead of IT (Information Technology), is a rapidly advancing field. The way ALL IT’s employees are able to keep up with the pace is rather outstanding.

Although they may lose to the undercuttings from their neighbours, overall they stood out quite prominently, reasonably as well as reputably. I won’t mind paying some extra few bucks when dealing with ALL IT.

ALL IT deserve some, if not all of its awards.

Sri Computer (?) is the second. It’s like the Petaling Street of CE. But the knowledge of their employees is rather limited. Their price is usually cheaper but you should really know what you are dealing with instead of letting them pull your nose in the wrong direction.

Personally, I go to ALL IT to shop for updated new stuffs and Sri Computer for spare parts.

As for the third, there is one shop on the ground floor that I want to recommend if you really want to have a screen protector laid on your precious PDA, gaming device (eg PSP), handphone etc. They will really ensure that you will receive the utmost care when laying down the protecting film. I once spent an entire 30 minutes for them to lift up every grain of dust from the screen of my PDA before they stick the screen protector… Only to end up with a small bubble appearing out of nowhere. They threw away the film immediately and repeated the whole process. I gave that young man a fifty ringgit tips.

And that day, when I walked away with my spanking new Garmin iQue 3600 and its emaculate screen protector, was one of the happiest days of my life.

PS : I am not related to any of the shops mentioned above. If you have a certain negative experience when dealing with any of the shops above, you may voice it here. But please be aware that I might not reflect your complaint directly to them. It’s up to them to find this post. If you have any suggestive comment, I would advice you to forward it to them yourself and let us all enjoy the benefit together.