A limited-edition Casio G-Shock watch model released to coincide with 50 years of national service this year has proved popular with Singaporeans, with several stores selling out the timepieces within hours of sales starting. The watches cost $269.
A check by The Straits Times on online marketplace Carousell at 9.30pm on Friday revealed seven people selling the coveted watch at higher prices ranging from $280 to $400. One seller was offering his at $2,699.99.
Source: www.straitstimes.com
UK Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran’s two-night concert sold out within hours of being put on sale.
Given the demand, tickets for Sheeran’s first show are being touted on third-party sites – but at a premium. There have been offers circulating on online marketplace Carousell, with some advertising two pairs of tickets for as much as S$4,000 – up from the original price of between S$108 to S$248 for a ticket.
One Carousell user, for instance, was selling Cat 1 tickets at S$2,200 for four or S$600 for one – up from the original price of S$248 per ticket – with a “guaranteed best view of Ed Sheeran”.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
Hello, if you’re looking to sell your Coldplay tickets then i wanna buy them. I wanted to buy two tickets but ya’ll knnccb buy then wanna resell to earn more money but as Chris Martin said in the scientist, ‘nobody said it was easy’. I played that song while at work when it was announced that tickets were sold out. I was a bit late to purchase it because i malay ah, everything late one.
I’ll fix you by buying it from you. I’m a huge fan dude, so please sell it to me at a reasonable price. You gain, i gain.
No good deed will be unnoticed by God. If you sell it to me, I’ll pray for your well-being everyday with good health & good wealth. May Zeus return you the favor of heaven and may he protect you from hades. May the gods of gods grant you your wishes after you sell the tickets to me. I’ll pray for you to keep you away from satans like John did. John 17:15 “I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.”
I got no girlfriend ah, I’m going with a buddy of mine who loves coldplay too. He’s getting married next year so this might be our last time to enjoy the music we love together. You know ah after married, we men cannot go concert all, especially if we malay. Confirm wife say ‘eh bodoh, go ceramah better than concert. Later in hell, the screams of sins are the music you listen to’.
Yo, I’m writing a freaking paragraph to plead you to sell it to me at a good price, if this isn’t good enough of a plead then at least I tried, ‘No one ever said it would be this hard’. I just need two tickets bro. Cat 3/6 preferred, oh yeah & receipt please for authentication.
(If your gf/bf suddenly paitau you a day before the concert, no worries I’ll buy from you too. Just know that if he/she paitau you on coldplay, he/she ain’t worth it bro).
Source: Wandy19
Offering his car for rent on online marketplace Carousell landed a man in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), after he was so stressed out that he suffered a heart attack.
The man had rented out his BMW for a month at $2,300 and the renter disappeared with the car. Two weeks after the $35,000 car was due to be returned, he was still uncontactable.
Car jockey Taufiq Hidayat, 28, related his father’s experience to The New Paper. His father did not want to be named.
“My father was so worried sick about his car that he suffered a heart attack last Saturday at about 3am and had to be warded in the ICU,” said Mr Taufiq.
When told about the laws governing car rentals, Mr Taufiq said: “I’m sure if my father was aware of the regulations, he wouldn’t have rented out his car.”
The Oct 15 deal, made through Carousell, was between Mr Taufiq’s father and a man who called himself Thomas.
“The next day, Thomas came with a man called Muthu, who was in his mid-50s. Thomas introduced Muthu as his uncle,” said Mr Taufiq.
“He told my father that Muthu was the one who wanted to rent the car.”
Mr Taufiq’s father then took a picture of Muthu’s identity card and made him sign a handwritten contract. The $2,300 was paid in full.
That was the last time Mr Taufiq’s father saw his car.
On Nov 15, the day that the car was supposed to be returned, Thomas was uncontactable.
“My father first thought that Thomas was busy, so he just let it slide and sent him another reminder,” said Mr Taufiq.
Two days passed but there was still no news from Thomas.
“When we called him, we could hear the dial tone but no one answered the call,” added Mr Taufiq.
“Even when we sent him a message on Whatsapp, we saw the blue ticks (an indication that the message was read) but there wasn’t any reply.”
Mr Taufiq then went to Muthu’s house to demand for the car.
“When Muthu saw me, he seemed quite afraid,” he said.
Muthu told him Thomas’ real name and admitted that they were not related. They weren’t even close friends, he claimed.
Mr Taufiq made a police report that day.
Over the past month, he also found out from summonses that the car had been cited for traffic offences, including speeding and beating a red light. There were over 20 fines, totalling $1,000.
SIMILAR EXPERIENCE
On Nov 27, Mr Taufiq posted on Facebook everything that happened. His post received more than 490 shares and caught the eye of Mr Shahrukh, who runs a car rental company.
Four months ago, Mr Shahrukh, 22, had a terrible experience when he leased a Nissan Presage to a man with the same name.
The man had said he wanted to rent the car for a week but after taking the car for a four-hour ride, he demanded a refund “because he didn’t like the car”.
Mr Shahrukh did not give him any money back.
In October, there was also a complaint against the same man on online classified site Gumtree.
A Gumtree member with the username Mouzzammil made a fraud alert alleging that he had been cheated by the man.
The man had taken Mouzzammil’s car for a one-day rental and abandoned it two days later, leaving the keys on one of the front tyres. Mouzzammil claimed the man texted him the location of the car.
“Fuel nearly empty, and scammed of taxi fares and rent for a day,” he wrote, referring to theMONEY
he spent taking a taxi to the car.
Police investigations are ongoing.
According to the Land Transport Authority website, private car owners are allowed to rent out their cars only if they fulfil two main requirements:
coverage for the period of rental. following the public holiday.Lawyer Lawrence Lang said that many car owners are reluctant toPAY for car rental insurance because of its high premium.
“The main stumbling block of the scheme is theINSURANCE COVERAGE. OwnersPAY insurance according to the risk of claiming it,” said the insurance and construction litigation lawyer.
“So when you pay for car rental insurance, you are assuming that the person who rents the car is at high risk, hence the high premium.”
Source: www.tnp.sg
Dear A.S.S.,
Carousell user “girlnextdoor” had a “Brand New LV Montaigne M41048” for sale in early May 2015.
A fellow Carousell user enquired about the item by asking some questions via the Chat function, and made a $300 bid (albeit ridiculously low) . “girlnextdoor” got offended by the potential buyer’s questions and low bid, and started to insult her race, “you malay people are pure retarded”, “cant read at least have some brains”.
“girlnextdoor” furthered her seditious rant by stating that “Its a known fact that everyone in sg looks to malays as second class citizens”, and that Malays on carousell are “absolute retards”.
Even if the bid was not what the seller wanted, there is NO NEED to insult the entire Malay community over a bag. “girlnextdoor” comments violates the Sedition Act, Section “3.—(1) A seditious tendency is a tendency (e) to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore.”, and have indeed caused ill-will and hostility to the Malays.
We hope the relevant authorities will look into this matter.
Isaac Abraham
A Concerned Singaporean
Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com