Feb 2, Epic Failure of Malaysia IT Fair 2011

There was a Malaysia IT Fair organised by Kaspersky Malaysia which runs from 28 Jan 2011 to 30 Jan 2011 at Midvalley last week. This fair should not be confused with the normal computer fair we all know i.e. PC Fair (the original fair) which is organised by PIKOM, the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry, Malaysia. The real and original PIKOM PC Fair will not be held until April the 15 at KLCC.

Many of my friends ask me when will the PC Fair be held since I will be going with them. I know of this fair (Malaysia IT Fair) since December but I told them it will be held in April. The reason I told them this was I have never heard of this fair before. Some of my friends found out about this fair and asked me, I told them don't go as this is not the original PIKOM PC Fair and the deals all seems fishy. at first glance. I hope they listened to me.

Last Saturday 29 January 2011, I needed to buy some computer stuff for my friends and my father needed some computer stuff as well. We wanted to check out this Malaysia IT Fair and Lowyat as my father thought it was the fair was the PIKOM fair. Before our departure, I decide to read up some of the comments posted by visitors to Malaysia IT Fair at Lowyat Forum just to check is it worth going or not. Boy was I glad I read those comments.

These are some of the comments posted in Lowyat forum that put me off from visiting the IT Fair:

"If you are shopping for Jackie Chan/Lee Chong Wei antivirus (Kaspersky), you should head there as they are selling jackie chan anti virus all the way till you exit. It is Kaspersky Fair instead of IT Fair."

"They sell Seagate HDD 500GB for RM99 but Seagate have a bad reputation according to one user at Lowyat Forum."

"just head to lowyat..
dont waste ur time at the malaysia IT fair..."

"Lousy fair. Don't waste time
Nothing interesting. Selling old model laptop."

"Selling fake pendrive at RM10 for 4GB"

"Some people pay RM45 for kaspesky limited 4GB pendrive"

"someone paid RM60 for a 4GB thumbdrive!!!! The auctioner straight close deal without counting. ridiculous price!"

"this fair failed a lot....compare to PC fair...pc fair better...."

"price also not cheap"

"http://www.facebook.com/#!/malaysiaitfair


admitted themselves that the stock is faulty..."
Seriously, how can they sell faulty stock? Didn't their quality team inspect it?

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People who ask them about the fake/faulty pendrive on facebook, the comments get deleted immediately.
See this.

Shame on you Kaspersky Malaysia.

On the other hand, I got some pretty good deals at Lowyat after discounts. :)