Can someone explain the fall of Sim Lim to me?

[PAP4ever]

maybe can ask jover chew?

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...le-air-jailed-33-months-for-conning-customers

 

[mynickname]

Online buy can use credit card and cheaper

 

[sales69]

Seldom buy from SLS since Newegg days.

 

[da_tou]

Didn't have KTV, massage parlor, etc

 

[zueinder]

oooh, just real world tested this.

Yesterday I went sim lim buy a usb-c right angle cable adapter for my usb-c hub.

Online Shopee is $5. Go sim lim, exactly the same thing $13.

Then I saw my usb-c hub there too, exact same model. Shopee $40, sim lim $54.

Find it hard to buy from sim lim like that. Service wasn't fantastic either.

 

[whatheheck]

there are still sim lim shops on shopee

they got some of the brand stores too. iirc last time WD lazmall store item also was sent from an sls address .

 

[Evil_Boss]

Jover chew

 

[Vegitto]

oooh, just real world tested this.

Yesterday I went sim lim buy a usb-c right angle cable adapter for my usb-c hub.

Online Shopee is $5. Go sim lim, exactly the same thing $13.

Then I saw my usb-c hub there too, exact same model. Shopee $40, sim lim $54.

Find it hard to buy from sim lim like that. Service wasn't fantastic either.

I only go sim lim if I need immediate or same day items...
If got days to wait, then I buy online

 

[Evil_Boss]

I still go there buy parts for my custom made PC. Unlike 25 yrs ago where I will mod my PC. Now is can use will do liao.

Yap... Lots of shops closure over the yrs. 6th floor overtaken by those KTV.

Given the nostalgic of that place since childhood time where I went there buy pirates CDs, I will still go there every now and then until the last bricks of SLS has been demolished then I call it a day.

Same. Last time will spend hours pouring over reviews and benchmarks to min max the best parts.

Now just go into the shop (pc themes) just say gimme gaming pc, around 2k, play RPG can already

 

[week3nd]

Jover Chew

 

[zueinder]

I only go sim lim if I need immediate or same day items...
If got days to wait, then I buy online

I can wait. Just small sarpork them and some nostalgia bah. I didn't expect the price difference to be so big.

 

[savoirex]

obsolete place lor...

 

[tidiii]

when buying online or pre built is safer and cheaper than buying at sim lim, it died
also who ask them rent out to those adult shops and scammers

now modern shopping malls all got planning for rentals

 

[Wanderer123]

From tech mecca of the 90s /00s to a ghost town. Want to enbloc also cannot get good price.

Prices not transparent there, especially ground floor, online cheaper.

 

[ghregular]

sls for nightlife

https://goodyfeed.com/sim-lim-square-nightclub/

 

[Callow Guy]

Won't fall ... They are home to upcoming siam dius , ktv and massage palours etc.. maybe can rename to Lai Lim.. or Lim Simi

 

[newcell]

After west buyers found lobang to suppliers directly, all electronics middleman in Singapore close shop.

 

[ChenHoNam]

With amazon , shopee and lazada, hard to visit SLS again.

 

[kittyklysm]

nowadays moi just go random pc shop and tell them the specs and price and they build for me, plus add any lights and I'm all set don't have to go SLS specifically.

Moi also dumb dumb kenna cheated before at groundfloor. The shop sell me obsolete stock when I looking for entry level camera.

 

[Reborn]

From tech mecca of the 90s /00s to a ghost town. Want to enbloc also cannot get good price.

shopee and lazada online shopping

jover chew