UFS201,4th Reflection Topic

Advertisement

Commercial or advertisement is one of business marketing strategy to attract or influence people to buy their products.Nowadays,we can see the commercial plays on television,internet,radio,flyer and so on.Marketers also using famous celebrities to be their product icon.Many consumer felt cheated by the commercial.

Went to shopping

I used to have an experienced where actually didn't wanted to buy the products but i still bought it because the magical advertisement succeed to convince me to buy their products.

In 2009,i went to shopping mall with my sister.We had a good time to shop.Suddenly,there was a guy came closer to us and approached us with something.He gave us an explanation about their product.We tried many times to excuse but he won't let us go and tried hard to attract us to their mini boost.

Kitchen cookware

He gave us a paper and said the thing that they asked from us were only our support towards their product.Well,that time we also started to think it wasn't so bad if their need only our supports.Then,we followed him to their mini boost.He started to talk and showed us their product.Their product was a set of kitchen equipment.Well,i admitted that their product is an quality made from German.After few minutes talked with us,he asked us to sign a paper as the sign we support their products.Then,like a magic he trapped us with their product.He said that if we buy one of their item we will get free one set of kitchen cookware. 

Then,me and my sister as though hypnotized and excited when heard a free thing. Automatically,we put our signature and paid Rm50.Then,the salesman gave us our product and we asked him where our free set.He explain to us that the free set only will given to us if we paid full price which was Rm1800 within 3 months.We were so shocked to hear but what can we do.It was our own foolishness didn't read the agreement letter before sign it.

Until now,i felt so fool.How does the salesman succeed to trick us with such a kind cheap advertisement.Well,their actually smart sales guy and that moment it gave us an awareness and lesson to be more careful in future.