Today, he went to The Mall near PWTC to set up the new booth and be immersed in the new booth location. He then receives a call at about ten something from a customer who asks him to come to his office at Menara Maxis Level 29 to discuss about wireless broadband packages. This customer was one of those whose hands reached out for one of the 500 flyers distributed in two hours on the previous day in front of Wisma Central.

So, this salesman heads off to KLCC via the Masjid Jamek intersection from PWTC at 2.00 pm and arrives to find himself in a very classy, majestic building called Menara Maxis standing right next to the Petronas Twin Towers. He surrenders his IC for a moment and obtains a Visitor’s Pass that allows him to go only to Level 29 of that building. He goes up to the higher floors of the building for the first time and wonders how a normal salesman like him could enter such a beautiful office building meant for higher corporate echelons. He goes into the office in Level 29 and was greeted by the receptionist who ushers him to a corner with comfy seats overseeing the beautiful KL skyline (it is such a nice from up there). He looks outside the large window pane and admires the beauty of the KL landscape, wondering again what a part-time salesman is doing in such a beautiful office high up in the sky.

The secretary of the customer who wanted to see the salesman appears and brings him to the office located a floor below (Level 28). He meets the customer in a private cubicle (nice office) and then discusses the signal strength in the customer’s home area. The salesman tries his best to persuade the customer to buy instantly but the customer insists on a signal test in his own home first. The customer asks to conduct this test during the weekend and the salesman agrees to pay him a visit. So the salesman, not being able to persuade the customer to purchase on the spot, packs up and readies himself to leave. But as he walks out, the customer calls out and asks the salesman to wait for a while. After speaking to his secretary and confirming that the afternoon meeting was nothing important, the customer changes his plans and fetches this salesman to his home located nearby, in his very nice and comfortable monster-sized Ssangyong four-wheel drive (somehow this customer was quite free and can skip meetings).

His condo was a luxurious one, and his home was very cosy. But alas, albeit a strong signal strength, the download speed was less than satisfactory, even with the antenna attached. The salesman was aware that the download speeds these few days in KL were lower than usual due to some reason but all the customer wants to see is performance. So he hesitated in buying but he might just call the salesman during the weekend, since after all despite having lower download speed than usual it was better than his existing wireless broadband services (even if it was by a small margin). The salesman also told him that if he bought the more expensive package he was bound to get a better signal reception and hence better download speeds. The customer then fetches the salesman back to his office at KLCC, small-talking along the way.

Anyway, the salesman headed back to The Mall after that and got himself bored at the booth again. Doing outdoor sales can really be quite fun rather than being trapped in some stagnant place. Today, that salesman visited some interesting places which would not be accessible to a man in the street, he thinks.

Update at 4.30 pm, 16th February: The customer visits the salesman at The Mall near PWTC and buys the iZZiYOU package. Great day for the salesman.