i got this email from a singaporean friend:

Dear friends, especially durian lovers!

Please keep away from this durian stall called CHIN YONG TRADING opp
Geylang Lor 11. Their hard sell tactics give you no time to react and
you'll be forced to spend $200 on just a few durians!! Probably its
just one or 2 salesmen who use such underhand tricks but better to avoid
the stall totally or be sorry!

Here is my own personal account:
On 21st Apr, my husband with a group of friends decided to have some
durian after dinner at geylang and we head straight to the nearest stall -
CHIN YONG TRADING. Turned out to be a big mistake! My husband went
off to choose the durians after we found a table.

Once my husband approached this hooligan, he took out his parang to open a
durian and ask my husband to try, my husband asked him how much was it but
he say "never mind just try first", so my husband commented not
bad....immediately
this hooligan picked up 5 durians and put into a basket, weighed it
and brought it to our tables despite my husband repeated questioning on
the price. No replies given. At our table, he opened up another and asked
me and another gal friend (who's carrying a less than yr old baby) to try
the durian so we
tried. He asked whether nice, we said yes, not bad and immediately he started
opening up another durian and say, "see confirm good one this one"! We asked
him about the price then only at this time he told us $20 per kg!!! so we
asked him the whole basket how heavy, and guess what??? 10kg, and there
were only 5 durians inside! We say we don;t want he say cannot cos durian
opened already and he already keyed in the sales and cannot return. Then
keep explaining to us this is really good durian and worth eating while
picking up another to open. This time we raised out voice and told him if he
don't stop opening, we will leave immediately. Only then he stopped and say,
never mind, he'll return the other 2 unopened one, but the rest of the three
durians we have to take....wah piang...and
we thought just a while ago he said key in order already cannot
returned??????

Anyway, we were very angry and everything happened too fast for us to
react, we finished up the 3 durians which in the end cost us $140/- ,
we
didn't enjoyed the durians at all. We hope to prevent anyone from
becoming
victims again to this hardselll tactics so beware of those geylang
stalls
especiall Chin Yong Trading. One of our friends who joined us later
on
said
that he experienced the same thing too from the same stall once.

I lost my wallet on the bus and the driver didn't care.... I was going to school and when I was going out I lost it! I got so
pissed, that I skipped school because of that

aw that sucks

I thought u would have a chauffeur, glut? Most rich indonesian kids are chauffeured

rich brat like you take bus???

how about getting scammed at sim lim square? next month i want to take my friend there who's a electronics enthusiast.
which stores should we avoid. any tips? thanks

If i were u, i would avoid Sim Lim like the plague... it's too much hassle to go thru just to get a bargain..

LOL

thanks tangawizi,

is funan a better alternative or lucky plaza? or best electronics at taka?