Sunday, October 24, 2004

Besieged

I don't believe this, i was at Tampines Central last Friday & was stopped in my tracks by 2 guys working for the same insurance company. The thing is, the 2 booths set up are barely 300 metres apart.

Anyway, the 1st booth i passed; the "insurance adviser" stopped me & started talking about the benefits of saving & how saving with "his company" can accumulate better interest than the local banks & how they can "give" the policy holder an amt of cash every year.

Woah, sounds like a dream come true. You wish.

Well, i'm not against insurance companies coming up with saving plans/endownments; but the instrusive nature of the "advisers". They practically step in right in front of you, preventing you to venture another step ahead to avoid them. By the time i passed the 2nd booth, this other "adviser" tried to stop me & i just waved him off & said i just got stopped by his colleague earlier. He let me off then.

I figured the increase in the no. of roadshows is due to the competitiveness between the different insurance companies & the banks (local or foreign). But, it's getting too annoying to the extent that you try ways & means to "slide" pass these roadshows.

The irony of a developed society.

1 comment:

Val said...

geez...that's a good one; but wouldn't work in Singapore. Opposition in Singapore either get sued till they go bankrupt or they slowly "disappear" indefinitely.

Nonetheless, seen your journal; some amazing stuff.