Rant & Raves

We make some friends along the way, and we loose some friends. That’s the fact in life and we just cannot avoid it. We are not being measured by our social life or dick size, but by who we are. It doesn’t matter if you have 100,000 friends and you are the social slut (not slut in a slutty sense). What count most is that you have some really close friends that make you feel very comfortable.

Currently I am at the brink of loosing one of my close friends.

Nope, its not H5N1 nor Hand, Food and Mouth (HFM) disease. It’s Diamond Water, or the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM).

Before he started officially with Diamond Water, I have already informed him that a lot of those MLM people lost their friends because of the line of work they do. Same as those insurance agent. You can disagree with me but I am not saying all of them are asses. But a lot of them became so realisitc that if you are of no use to them, they won’t even bother to contact you. That’s their survival method and they became so superficial that they don’t have any real friends anymore.

He has joined Diamond Water recently, and he insisted to visit me at my place. Being a good friend, of course I said yes. Little I knew that it was a big mistake.

After a brief introduction on Diamond Water, he went ahead to install a unit in my apartment without my consent. He never informed me that he was going to introduce his product to me in the first place. He just barge in with his products, and started doing demonstrations.

He told me there’s a 3 months trial period and if I am going to use credit card, I get an extra of 30 days for the trial period.

So I agreed with it. Little I know that the so-called trial period is a charging period and it is actually the “Satisfaction Guaranteed” period, meaning that during thise 3 months if you are not happy with the product, you get to refund everything. The total charges? A cool RM1,300 for the whole year. Oh! And they mentioned renting it for RM60 per month? That’s bullshit also because they are actually charging the full RM1,300 per year for the first year and then the credit card company will give you an interest free installment period.

Later I asked him about the trial period thing and he informed me that I can actually test the product for 3 months with a fee of RM499. By the end of 3 months, they are going to refund me the RM499 and start charging me the fee if I decided to continue to use the product. So clearly this is a better deal. But why isn’t he introducing me to this deal since it is much better?

Reason is very simple: During this trial period, he is not entitled to any commission and only after the actual plan started, then he’ll get his commission.

Maria’s company got their own water filter and the price is totally unbeatable. But we decided to support him because he’s my friend, eventhough the final cost for “renting” the Diamond Water is more than RM5K (The deal we can get from Maria’s company is 1/5th of that).

I was really mad at that and I felt I was being ripped off. I tried to support him but he didn’t give me the best deal.

The so-called friends. Finally after knowing him for more than 15 years, I saw the true color. Maybe its the Diamond Water culture that changed him, or this is actually his true color.

Furthermore, he has clearly transformed to become someone else. We have a friend’s daughter celebrating her full-moon (that’s Chinese culture to celebrate when a baby is a full month old) and normally he won’t miss such an important event. But when I asked him on that day, he mentioned something like, “It depends if I got time or not” Of course, that friend has water filter at his place already, so he can’t really do sales to him.

I didn’t care, and he knew I was really pissed with him. I sms him and told him I wanted to cancel the Diamond Water. His reply? “Ok. No problem.” Later he called Maria (and didn’t dare to call me) and informed her that the refund period takes a full month. Well, of course! Without a full month, they cannot charge interest on the transaction!

A lot of those MLM are just a gimmick. They said renting it for RM60/month is actually a false statement.

Furthermore, our ancestors, parents, and etc have been drinking unfiltered water with all the claimed hazardous materials like chlorine for ages, and they are still healthy. So is Diamond Water really good for us? I would say No. Those water is good for ill person to rejuvenate their health but not offering anything to healthy person like me. Hell, I don’t even notice any difference after drinking the stupid Diamond Water for more than 2 weeks.

Did I forget to mention that Fluffy has been drinking Diamond Water ever since the day he installed the unit, and his shit is as hard as diamond nowadays?

Fuck Diamond Water. It’s a hoax. And Diamond Water took away a close friend of mine!