Being of sound inquisitive mind I followed the ad in Todays Newspaper to the Tatarah website to see how somone could get a car for 0.23 cents…and this is what I saw..
October 31, 2007...10:23 am
Bad Timing – Wasted Advertising in Today Newspaper – Poor Tatarah.com.sg
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October 31, 2007 at 11:58 am
It’s pretty sloppy planning IMO. If they decided to run a huge marketing campaign, they should have been prepared to handle the jump in bandwidth.
October 31, 2007 at 1:37 pm
OK, but at least we know their marketing is working. haha.
October 31, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I was caught off guard when the site went down on the last few items up on bids. Refresh and then it went down. Ouch.
October 31, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Silly silly silly. I think this is one of those very clear cut examples where companies just spend their marketing budgets without bothering about the entire customer experience and process. Well, I guess the ones laughing all the way to the bank are the media owners, which is TODAY in this case!
November 1, 2007 at 12:02 am
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November 1, 2007 at 5:22 pm
So how am i gonna check if i’ve won the bid? felt like kanna cheated… the auction that i’ve bidded was closed since monday, since i’ve made payment for the processing fee til now they have not email me anything. must be a con job!
November 4, 2007 at 12:20 pm
[...] another marketing gimmick to get tatarah brand firmly in Singaporeans Minds…Since my last Tatarah post on Oct 31 there must be enough time to add bandwidth. Since then I still see that lavish MRT train ads and as [...]
November 16, 2007 at 2:44 pm
after down for 2 weeks tatarah has turn to a bad auction site. They have change from the lowest bidder with processing fee wins to highest unique bidder wins…. is just not worth it…. go to ebay lah better…. at least ebay have not charge anything for the processing fees if i am not wrong
December 31, 2007 at 11:11 pm
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