Sim Lim scams: Student reduced to tears after being charged $1k for iPhone warranty
Sim Lim scams: Student reduced to tears after being charged $1k for iPhone warranty
AsiaOneWednesday, Nov 05, 2014
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Sim Lim scams: Student reduced to tears after being charged $1k for iPhone warranty
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SINGAPORE - Just a day after it was revealed that a Sim Lim Square shop reduced a customer to tears over an overpriced phone, another customer has stepped forward to tell her own similar experience at the infamous mall.
A 19-year-old undergraduate, who did not wished to be named, told The Straits Times that she burst into tears after she was told she had to pay $1,000 on top of the $999 she had paid for an iPhone 6.
She told The Straits Times in an email that she had gone to a shop located on the first floor of Sim Lim Square called Mobile 22 on Oct 9.
She agreed to pay $999 for the phone and $39.90 for the warranty. However, she was charged $1,000 on her debit card as the shop keeper neglected to tell her that the $39.90 warranty was only for one month.
"There was an 'x' between the 39.90 and 24 months that the seller had very strategically covered with his finger while urging me to sign the document," she told The Straits Times.
The international student from India said she burst into tears and started begging the shop staff after they said they would not return her the money, which she said was meant for her school tuition fees. They eventually reduced the $1,000 in warranty fees to $551.
It was reported yesterday that a Vietnamese tourist was reduced to tears on Monday after being scammed of $950 attempting to buy an iPhone 6 for his girlfriend at Mobile Air, another shop in Sim Lim Square.
Mobile Air made headlines recently for refunding a woman $1,010 in coins, including one-cents and five-cents coins.
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