Sold on SOLD.MY

I recently attended SOLD.MY's Grand Launch held in Gecko Bar, PJ Trade Centre, unsure of what to expect as I had very little knowledge (or understanding, too deng sometimes D:) about it. I was very much curious to find out how it worked as i couldn't really grasp the concept by just reading alone ( that's just me really D:)

I was there with the company, so, I was more of helping to set up and pack goodie bags and do the registration. PROOF :

Picture credit to Jinyin of  chriscjy.blogspot.com
I helped ohkayyy????

And as I really didn't know what was what, I was fueled with curiosity. 

This greeted the participants of the launch. Think red carpet.

The restaurant was closed to the public after lunch to host this function, which meant we had the place to ourselves. No being shy about fully utilising this space for pictures :D Anyway, first things first, registration. Each participant was given a goodie bag each. (yay!)

Said goodie bag, horrible picture though :(

Inside the bag :Sticky candy and a mug!( with a little spoon)

Also came with a pamphlet explaining the concept of Sold.MY but I misplaced it :(

It says SOLD.MY!

Participants were encouraged to tweet with the @SoldMY hash tag.

Stuff up for grabs on Sold.MY. Definitely the attention grabber. 

 From Blackberries to Tiffany & Co. Jewellery, you name it they had it. 

Once they got you wanting it, it definitely got you paying attention to how  Sold.MY works, because you can get it cheaper there! Crazy cheap! And from what they were saying, all you need is luck and strategy ( and of course cash to start it up )

Participants were given the low -down of how Sold.My worked.

The event was hosted by Mei Sze, who got the participants up and alert.The upbeat, concise and lively session was conducted by the team from SOLD.SG and they really got the point across.

The media men covering the event.

So anyway, what did I learn about Sold.MY ?

As you saw the items in the picture somewhere up there, they're all brand new, up for bid, starting at RM0.00. You need a token to make a bid, each token costs RM 1.50, and every bid increases the current price by 15 cents, the current time by 20 seconds. When you first sign up, you are given 7 tokens free!

So the gist of it is, be the last bidder as the clock times down to 0:00:00, and the item is yours for the price stated there! Easy, peasy lemon squeezy!

The challenge of the deal is to actually fight your way up with other bidders and the strategy of bidding. The trick as we were told, was to use the auto-bidder to "fight" for us. What is that? It's a function you can customize to kick in after a certain time, and to throw in bids within the time limit set and it will all be done without you having  to be there physically to hawk-eye the counter. 

 They really had a wide range of items, i saw speakers, headphones, iPhone docks and I had my eye on a Yoda thumb drive(too cute!!).Hot items like iPhones and Blackberries could go up to 5 hours wait time, while the smaller, less "hot" items could go off in much less. Safe to say, pick your battles wisely ;)

How I learnt this? 

They actually set up a mock demo with the site running and participants with their laptops, so we got to see first hand how it looks like and how it works. Pretty interesting to see how it went. 

Sold.Sg member explaining with objects the concept of the site.

So this being the media launch, the media were treated to a "private" media-only bidding session later than night! I wasn't free to take part but I heard loads of people won lots of goodies :) So much cheaper than buying it from regular stores. Lucky ducks! 

The entire session was short and concise, where most questions were discussed over the early dinner buffet. The Sold.Sg team was friendly and amiable, they answered all questions and explained in detail about the concept and usability of the site. Then again, everything works better during food-time :P 

Really yummers, was too busy eating to take up close shots of the food. 

Obligatory cam-whore shot.

With Jason and Jinyin

Did i mention they had a pretty cool hammer mascot thing?

Disclaimer: No Sold.sg members were hurt during the shooting of this picture.

pic creds : chriscjy.blogspot.com

Outfit :

Grey long sleeve skater dress : Kitschen

Pink Belt : Bazaar@subang parade

Shoes: Boutique @Puchong

And remember the "red carpet" area outside?\

pic taken from Advertlet's Facebook ;p

That concludes this post.

(now, lunch)