Xiaomi Fad

Dear Emma,

I actually was keen on getting a Xiaomi Red1S smartphone but decided against it due to conflict in principle. My problem lies with both the provider and the bunch of scavengers that seems to plague this rather good product in my opinion.

First of all, while I think the flash sales strategy is rather innovative but fundamentally flawed. Frankly speaking this flash sales is a nuisance in my opinion and don't understand why do they need to resort to such mean to rake up sales, especially when they already have a good product at a great price. A lot of people got sucker into buying their product cause of the "Jusco Member Day" mindset Xiaomi managed to infused into these bunch of peoples. Who do I blame for this? Sadly I have to blame the consumers themselves for this. Why? For getting sucker into this gimmick. As long as the consumer keep playing along, that's as long Xiaomi will continue doing this gig. If consumer grow a backbone and boikot Xiaomi for one flash sale event... Imagine "10,000 unit, not one single unit sold", you think Xiaomi will take a serious look at how they are f*ckin the consumer with their gimmick? But at last, consumers will be consumers... overly blinded by greed and kiasu ness.

Second is the 2nd level market some people are already creating. True to the mindset "You can make profit outta anything", the scavengers are buying multiple units and then reselling for some profit. Now is this wrong? No... This act is in no way wrong-er than how our real estate got screwed by a bunch people with the same mindset. And everyone is b*tchin bout how house prices are expensive and etc, when the same bunch of jokers are actually pulling the same shit albeit at a much smaller scale. A bunch of hypocrites...

So I decided to grow a backbone and say no. F*ck Xiaomi and their flash sales... Flash ur cheap phone up ur candid arse for all I care... I will not participate in this dumb gimmick and will not contribute to getting a bunch of scavengers richer period... I'm not saying what they are doing is wrong, it's just I won't give my hard earn moolah to these bunch of peoples...