Whats the purpose of such a promotion? Is it to increase subscribers or to just to give out phones? Are the phones sim locked? Even if they are and ill still buy them in the secondary market for not as much as safaricom was selling them for is there a brand promise broken by safaricom there? As rightfully said, I think something went wrong with this promotion. they should not have sold more than one handset to each person.Otherwise we begin to question whether the promotion was somebodys way of selling handsets and safaricom with their billions absorbing the cost of it but they end up in the hands of consumers. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
I saw the advert paper that was circulated about the month end offer and so decided to check out the HTC touch HD. When I visited one of their outlets on saturday, the sales attendant informed me that the entire stock was finished and they did not have ANY of the advertised units in stock. I found this not normal, especially when a company as big as Safcom was running the special. The attendant further me informed that all units were sold out in a matter of few hours a day before. What I find very strange about the offer is this : - Do kenyans walk around with millions of Ksh in their pockets, literally, that they just went and bought all the units outright? Would dealers have bought the unit outright and if they did, that even complicates the situation because Safaricom advertised to the general public, not dealers and thereby misleading the general public. Therefore, if any member of the public bought more than 2 handsets, would this mean a vendor and not the general public was buying the handsets. Something stinks about this whole month end offer affair and I think is worthy of investigation by kenyan authorities. Did anyone on the list see safaricom outlets being overcrowed by huge lines of people wanting to buy handsets for a the first few hours that the offer ran on that day, then the lines slowly disappear?.
There is no case to answer there. It's normally a first come first served basis and I do believe (correct me if I am wrong) that Safaricom did not say there was a limit on how many handsets one individual could buy, so someone could easily walk in to the shops, pay 500k and say "give me all the ModelXX" that you have, and the rest in the queue would be sent away. The offer must have been so open to manipulation, insider-dealing, etc but at the end of the day, the Finance/Accounts Dept at Safaricom does not complain as long as their books balance, or should they?
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