Cellphone is the 3rd basic need of Pinoys
-A A +AThursday, October 11, 2012
FOR so many years now, the republic on this earth known in the name of the Philippines had continuously held on the tag as the cellular phone network country on this earth. Just on my own elementary estimate that fifty million Filipinos are holding on to the cheapest to the most expensive cellular phone that one could dream to own and each one spends N pesos daily, how much of a fortune is that for the networks.
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At the rate life is going on now, maybe twenty million Pinoys are holding on to two cellphones with different networks.
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So while the basic needs of man for centuries maybe is: food, shelter and clothing; today it is now food, shelter and load. The very existence of this ukay-ukay of cheap but imported clothing has taken over the usual clothing boutiques that was an in decades ago.
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One would even sacrifice his meal by converting his food intake to a cheaper food item only to ensure that he has load for his cellphone. Otherwise without the load, he feels he is in the wilderness with no connection to the world.
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But for myself, buying a cellphone, cheap or expensive, it must carry in me the importance of after-sales service. Many store sales people smile at you or get a talk on you to make you buy a cellphone from them. But when the unit bogs down, they disappear.
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It's a better option to pay a few hundred pesos more just to ensure that after-sales attention is there when I need to complain. Thanks to this store named Galleon Enterprises where their smile was not a fake. They still smiled when I complained. I hope to meet the owner of this Galleon and make sure he knows that his store can be trusted.
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Soon, there will be a new product that will come out in the market, which I have already tried. It is Guayabano (Babana) concentrate/puree. Comes in a liter bottle-not in the plastic PET container which is not a healthy material for food they say-this Babana concentrate is really authentic. It is heard that the guayabano fruit has the power of nature given to it that could eliminate cancer cells. Pray God that cancer will not victimize mankind.*
Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on October 11, 2012.
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