Dear all fellow victims of MB or Be,
I am also one of the pioneer victims when I was working in Shenton Way back 3 yrs ago. Whatever those ladies out there had experienced, I had too
I think I'm the BIGGEST victim here cos I spent the most amt of $$ than anyone of you guys out there. I think I paid a total of $3K+ for 100x facials (crap!) when I first joined as their VIP. And becos of all those hard-selling and dirty tricks they used on customers, I finally decided to cut short my agony by converting my remaining value to "super VIP" package (reducing the no. of credits to higher-end treatments) and topping up with anor $1K or so. At that time I thought since super VIP is the highest package they can sell, they probably wouldn't pester me to buy more when I go for my future facials. I was too naive about that. They started selling me higher-end treatments! Thou naive abt that, I have learnt to be more and more hostile to them each time I go for my facial. I guess when you are hostile, they will not try to persuade you since you are not easy to talk to...let alone to sell. A word of advice, I think the earlier victims who are firm (and fierce) gets their way at the end of the day. I wld advocate the same thing. Dun worry that you are rude, cos you dun pay to suffer and hence speak up for your rights!
These pple will sometimes cheat me of what I am supposed to be entitled to enjoy, like free collagen mask and hand paraffin etc, and I will "remind" them about my entitlements.
There was once they tried to sell me an "upgrade" of my mask. They asked me how I felt about the current (free) collagen mask that came with my super VIP package and I told them I find the results so-so. They told me to upgrade my mask to 100% collagen mask and the results will be much better (ok, so now you are telling me my collagen mask isn't 100% pure?!!). I told them "I dun thin your facials are that wonderful, I spent $4k+ here and you all still keep asking me to top up this and that every time I come for facial?! Let me tell you, I think my SKII mask is evern better than your so-called collagen mask and I dun even need to pay so much!" I raised my voice and I said all that cos they actually sent a HK manager to speak to me. I was thinking in my mind "to hell with you and stop wasting my precious time!" Why wld I want to sit here and subject myself to all this crap? After they heard the "lion roar", they had no choice but to let me go. That was in TPY branch. It was a new branch then so I thought I go try out. I hated that branch. It was small with no individual rooms, cramped and no privacy at all. No way am I going back to that branch.
Recently, they went into a more sophicated and contemporary spa look and called themselves "Be". Be wat? Be conned?? And to think that Kym Ng from Channel U is their local spokesperson here!! I she won't even consider endorsing for them if she started out as a customer! Butwith the 2 bigger and newer branches at Ngee Ann and Tampines, I will definitely go and try. It cld be any worse now as compared to what we all had experienced in the past. My advice to the current members who have not used up all their credits pls dun be detered by this. Go and try out their bigger and (hopefully) better branches. Make the most out of what you had paid and be firm. If it's a NO, it will be a NO. If they asked to talk to you, tell them you are NOT INTERESTED and walk out of their sight right away. They cannot do anything to you. Anyway, I think now many of those yucky managers had either been sacked or resigned (I heard from some beauticians), so go ahead and book your appts. Share with me your most current experience after this... I will book soon, most probably go next weekend or early Sept and I shall update you girls on my latest experience
