Conspiracy Theory on CD-R King
November 28, 2008CD-R King, Where you can buy the cheapest electronic accessories in the country. This store has made a huge amount of profit from its discounted items. But consequently, their queuing is so long. But what the heck? Filipinos would rather waste their time on waiting to spend less money.
But doesn’t anybody question why the heck it’s so slow in CD-R King? What I’ve noticed is that they still have to go to their stock room or at the back of the cashier, which is hidden from the customers, and they would record the products’ (the ones to be sold) serial codes manually. They write it down on a list so that they could keep track on what they sell. And I find it weird that they do their inventory monitoring manually, instead of automating it by, let’s say, using barcode scanners and the like. why do I find it weird, you might ask. It’s because after about a decade of selling too much electronic stuff, they should have enough funds to automate their inventory management and monitoring. Besides, it’s ironic if you’d sell high tech gadgets in such a low tech method.
Another reason why it takes so long to purchase a simple 5 peso disc is that they still put warranty stickers on the accessories that you’re purchasing, and yes, even when the packaging already has a “5-year warranty” printed on it. And I also find it weird because CD-R king does not grant you this 5-year warranty. They will give you (I’m not sure) 3 or 6 months warranty only, even if the packaging does have a “5-year warranty” printed on it. So this means that CD-R king gives you their personal warranty.
So why are their products so cheap? well, for one thing, the products that they sell are imported from taiwan or china. But based from the weird inventory monitoring procedure and personal warranty that they give, we can also think that they are selling smuggled goods. The manual inventory monitoring is a way for them to avoid the BIR and customs’ audit. If you may ask how, then let me describe it like this: When the BIR might have a speculation, they will have to check CD-R king’s inventory manually. There wouldn’t be any computerized data for them to check. they would have to do everything manually, which I think is very tideous. And on the personal warranty thing: they will not grant the ones printed on the packaging maybe for the purpose of hiding the stolen goods from the manufacturers.
But hey, this doesn’t supposedly mean that these are true. I haven’t enough facts to prove this. So it probably is false. And I still bet it is false. (Ironic of me posting this, huh?) But I would still like to suggest automating their sales point and putting the warranty stickers right after receiving the goods from their suppliers to avoid such long ques! I bet everyone agrees with that point. haha! I’m posting this because they have no customer feedback drop boxes. =))
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well their website says quite the contrary. 
But I never said that it was true. =P and may i quote myself, “But hey, this doesn’t supposedly mean that these are true. I haven’t enough facts to prove this. So it probably is false. And I still bet it is false.” Hahaha! =P
Posted by vinzmondi at December 16, 2008, 12:12 pmWe love the products & prices at CDRKING but catalog products are out of stock!
CDR King is growing fast with new varied products which customers love. With new electronic cameras, larger drives for mp4, computer phones, and now even batteries for nokia cell phones (now mostly out of stock but still shown in the online catalog) it shows there is a huge demand for these products at reasonable prices! Keep up the great product line expansion and great prices. And the website is excellent but ordering online should be provided! And the instant chats with technicians are good but the inventory and stock availability is so old fashioned for a modern tech selling firm like CDRKING. And the long lines with inefficient checkout make customers feel like animals rather than king.
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Exactly my point, Communicator. with the rapid growth of CDR King, i believe that they will not be able to accommodate their growth because of the rate of their service. They say that their prices are at the lowest because they do not spend for POS equipment and other computerized inventory monitoring. But if they could hasten their sales processing (i mean the time spent for purchasing), there will be less opportunity losses. And thus, more customers will be served, and there will be higher revenue. They will break even soon after installing proper POS systems. I already sent them proposals to prove this in one of their stores. However, I was not entertained. Tsk tsk. The owner doesn’t know how to make business.
Posted by vinzmondi at July 1, 2009, 7:38 pmactually, its not about funding. We’ve talked to some of their people but boy are they slooooow
They should hire more qualified people to run their business. Maybe they thought that smart people with learn their business and duplicate it so they hire stupid people instead.
Posted by greg at March 22, 2010, 9:42 pmyou’re correct. they sell smuggled. i work in that company many years. they use manual to AVOID BIR taxes. they bribe people in bir and customs.
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hai onga ANG TAGAL nila grabe:O
Posted by ten at December 7, 2008, 10:13 am