Year: 2007

Hey geeks! It’s that time of the year once more where Microwarehouse attracts a long line of tech-savvy consumers as early as 12 noon. It’s the closest thing we have to a geek camp out in the US as the lines usually stretch out for hours. It’s going to be a bit different this year as the venue has been moved to the 2/F Silver City Automall Frontera Verde Drive Julia Vargas cor. E. Rodriguez Jr. Pasig. Up to 90% off on items! The gates open at 12 noon and close at 12 midnight.

From last year, people were able to get refurbished Macs as low as P30,000.00. If I feel up to it, I’ll prolly pick up Apple Care for the ol’ MacBook (it’s the best time to grab this!).

Oh! Oh! And …. alright, this is so non-sequitur but I just wanted to plug my brief modeling stint for Microwarehouse in the image above. Haha! In the photo I think I’m supposed to be a “technician” trying to fix that err … what’s that … a fax machine? And the “customer” is played by Jed Quiambao. Photo by Jake Verzosa. 🙂

NOTICE: This blog post is being shown to a live audience at mag:net cafe, Bonifacio High Street. As Andrian Lee did not allow any of the panel tonight to bring any form of presentation, I’d like to cheat a little bit and use this blog to post up a few thoughts about eCommerce and social media in the Philippines. Note that I’m no guru in this sort of thing so I approach eCommerce from the perspective of someone who’s been mostly in the publishing industry most of his professional life.

eCommerce, or the activity of buying and selling on the Internets has been around for a long time, but why are companies in the Philippines so afraid to take this up, when in fact it is the cheaper, easier and more convenient way of moving certain types of products? eCommerce makes so much sense, it makes multi level marketing done right look complicated.