Reply From Play-asia - Lol Worthy

[JakeK]

I emailed Play-Asia to see if they were interested/were distributing the Pandora.

Here is my email:

QUOTE
Hi,
I was interested to know if Play-Asia will be distributing the Pandora(www.openpandora.org) as I don't know of any online store that is in Asia-Pacific that is distributing the Pandora.

Regards

Jake


There reply:

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Dear Jake Kusters,

Thank you for contacting Play-Asia.com.

Currently, our post service do not cover the country Pandora at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Best regards, BryanPlay-Asia.com


My reply to that was:

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The Pandora is not a country, it is a open source handheld and I was interested to know if Play-Asia will be distributing the handheld.

Note: The Pandora is NOT a country.


Awaiting a reply. Didn't think that what I said was hard to understand :S.

 

[scarath]

lol, where is play-asia based? Maybe they no have good engrish?

Maybe they thought you meant Andorra?

 

[Orkie]

Sounds automated.

 

[timothee]

QUOTE
Sounds automated.

I don't think so, Play-asia has very good customer support. Their replies are prompt and they are not automated.

I had also contacted play-asia over the Pandora slightly over a month ago, here was their reply.

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Dear Timothee,

Thank you for contacting Play-Asia.com.

At the moment we have no plans on selling this device.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Best regards,

Maurice
Play-Asia.com

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Original Message from 2008-03-24 14:40:51 HKT
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Hi,


I would like to check with you if play-asia.com has any plans to sell the
upcoming handheld device called Pandora (http://openpandora.org), touted
as a successor of the GP2X (which you are selling on your site).


I am very interested in purchasing that handheld when it is released, and
I was hoping I would be able to order it from your site.


I look forward to your reply.


Regards,

Tim.



Tim.

 

[teggun]

I find the earlier response from play-asia.com humorous.

 

[NickLoTurco]

LOL, play-asia have excellent customer service, now that is a good one!!!!

 

[Prophet]

Yeah, Play-Asia is a very good store with (in my experience) very fast and good quality customer service.

They just misunderstood the question.

And the Pandora is just not yet on their radar. Once the Pandora is out and starts selling, they'll jump on it - they've always been open minded about carrying niche products.

 

[DXR_13KE]

that was very funny, i wonder if there is any country called Pandora.......

 

[azmodean]

that was very funny, i wonder if there is any country called Pandora.......

...Pangea?....

 

[timofonic]

that was very funny, i wonder if there is any country called Pandora.......

...Pangea?....



From wikipedia:

* A planet in Frank Herbert's Destination: Void series
* Pandora (moon), a moon of Saturn
* 55 Pandora, an asteroid
* The village of Pandora, an unincorporated community in Wilson County, Texas


Maybe their customer service is so good that they are able to send their products outside the earth

 

[JakeK]

My other emails with them haven't been that bad but still poor English.

We'll see if they have changed their mind

 

[Classic Team]

If people send multiple e-mails asking this question I'm sure we could get them to consider it. But they might jump on it by themselfs; so...

BTW: LOL; What A response....(In sarcasm) "Oh, we are very sorry, but we don't ship to Saturn's moon yet." IMAO

 

[x68000]

My other emails with them haven't been that bad but still poor English.

We'll see if they have changed their mind

I can't see any reason why his English is poor, considering he goes by the name Bryan! (if that really IS his name!)

 

[timofonic]

My other emails with them haven't been that bad but still poor English.

We'll see if they have changed their mind

I can't see any reason why his English is poor, considering he goes by the name Bryan! (if that really IS his name!)


Of course! There are too many chinese guys named Bryan, they are known by their perfect English and big eyes. Some of them even drink tea at 5pm

 

[sindbad]

Of course! There are too many chinese guys named Bryan, they are known by their perfect English and big eyes. Some of them even drink tea at 5pm

I found this out completely by accident. Since asian names rarely have any sort of european version, when kids learn english in school they choose some english names to use.

 

[ak_]

I think there is a Bryan at dealextreme.com too. Maybe people in China name their sons Bryan to garantee them a job in internet customer service in the future.

 

[EvilDragon]

I think there is a Bryan at dealextreme.com too. Maybe people in China name their sons Bryan to garantee them a job in internet customer service in the future.

Well, if it's similar to Korea, they can select an English name themselves and change it yearly
That's easier for business relations, they think.

 

[PokeParadox]

Yeah I know from when I was in school, the Hong Kong students generally had an English name as well as their Cantonese name.

 

[imbored]

That sounds like a really good shirt. Maybe a linux penguin playing a pandora on the front and on the back the words, "The Pandora is not a country!"

 

[Dingo_aus]

I loved the fact that all the chaps from Hong Kong at my school all had names of the former English Kings - George, Henry, Edward.

I loved it because no one else seemed to have them