2024 has already blessed us on Filipino X (or Twitter) with so much tea that we just had to chronicle it. Yes, this is also proof that we’ve been chronically online too. We don’t hide that fact—we say it loud and proud. Emz.
Accompanying the two other articles about the tea for the first week of January 2024, here comes the other one—involving the sale of a Canon Digital Camera and another Instagram shop owned by a…wait for it…possibly a rich kid feeding off mommy or daddy’s pockets.
Yes, we all know who we’re talking about here and they need no mentioning.
A Tweet on X with screenshots of the Instagram shop starting a new collection with pricing starting from PHP149, and the next one being a pic of one of their products being sold for more than half the said PHP149 turned viral on January 4, 2024.
As of writing, the viral post has 158 comments, 4.1k reposts, 12k likes, and 5.9M views.
https://twitter.com/jeIIyfishport/status/1742871374002364469?s=20
People on the internet were quick to comment on the outrageousness of the pricing.
13K?????
— ash (@NewPIant) January 4, 2024
the landlords of our generation
— ☁️ (@11mkmikks) January 4, 2024
And on January 5, 2024, the owner of the Instagram shop uploaded statements addressing (1) The PHP149 sale and (2) their pricing.
In their first statement, they clarified that “not all their items are priced at 149 pesos; it starts at 149 and may go up.” They also mentioned that the PHP149 sale was a “token of appreciation for support,” even though they purchased the cameras for thousands of pesos.
They also added, “As resellers, it’s uncommon to find a camera worth 149 pesos, buy 1 take 1, even if defective,” and that all sellers are aware of that fact. They ended the first statement by saying that they were grateful for the loyal customers and that if any misunderstandings persist, they will reconsider their promotions.
As for the second statement, they firmly detailed their reasoning for their pricing and that it “never crossed their minds” that they had to post a statement about it.
For their first reason, they said that what they were selling are “well-curated cameras,” meaning that they “took their time checking these items are DISCONTINUED” a.k.a. the cameras they’re selling can’t be found in malls and because the brands have stopped producing them.
They also reasoned that they “personally source them everyday and not just from your said shops like Escolta, Binondo, etc.,” and that they even fly to Japan and Thailand just to get them and that “it is NOT CHEAP.” They also said, “Remember that DIGICAM IS IN DEMAND and as resellers we do not get them for as low as you think of.”
The Instagram shop also said that they do not take their business lightly, and that they spend money every day for their flatlays and designs. They also added, “We do not appreciate the comments saying that we just put stickers on our cameras and just price it because we know that we do so much more than that.”
They ended the second statement by reiterating that they are resellers and that this is a business. “We are not forcing anyone to buy our products but if you decide to do so then we are beyond grateful and we promise that we will serve our customers better in the near future.”
After posting that statement, not a lot of people were happy about it and decided to “bully” them even more.
we should start bullying ig shops this year lets start with digi.blitz https://t.co/Wt5P7npTZE
— CHENG (@sillycle) January 4, 2024
digiblitz justifying their prices by saying they fly to japan just to buy digicams HAHAHAHAHHAH tangina nyo 1k yen lng ang mga preloved digicams sa akihabara thats 350 pesos
— 𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖑 (@_6sheol6_) January 5, 2024
@/digi.blitz this you? https://t.co/AeHn7jv9ae pic.twitter.com/T7SERTTy4v
— Kewchie Nadal (@feuranzia) January 4, 2024
HWJDHSJSHHW DIGIBLITZ SLANDER I LIVE FOR THISSSS
price starts at 149 tapos 2-4 cameras lang yung 149 talaga lahat 5k and up like bfr???????? handpicked from japan ulul oa magpricing tapos ung sa 149 randomly picked daw like ano pa mechanics? kelan malalaman? that’s it? tf https://t.co/hIYMln6FuH
— マオ 🥀 (@winterhyeri) January 4, 2024
@/digi.blitz count your fucking days ho pic.twitter.com/5itHLsV0Jc
— Kewchie Nadal (@feuranzia) January 4, 2024
praying for the downfall of digi.blitz 🙏🏻 https://t.co/ECTScEH9He
— tala (@prcskrstl2) January 4, 2024
Napaka unprofessional niyo @/digi.blitz !! is this how you deal with your customers??? pic.twitter.com/sEXCaQwsG7
— Kewchie Nadal (@feuranzia) January 5, 2024
second hand vs brand new price😭 pic.twitter.com/lQURx5chjw
— ræse ᅠ (@PwarkJwoy) January 5, 2024
Woke na mga tao sa digiblitz salamat 2024
— gian – PANTROPIKO & SALAMIN SALAMIN (@giancart4u) January 4, 2024
lord please release me from all my sufferings and give it all to @/digi.blitz https://t.co/ZpqirFxi6z
— dwan (@dweyndeh) January 5, 2024
digiblitz pinaka oa sa pinas https://t.co/6yl0nESxDS
— reese (@r8ese) January 4, 2024
this whole digiblitz debacle reminds me of a certain online bookshop bahahaha
— wiener kreisis and critique (@xerodromedary) January 5, 2024
oa mo naman digi.blitz no ones reading all that
— ⭐️ (@padayaw) January 5, 2024
To end this article, we quote the owner of the viral Tweet, @/jeIIyfishport for this:
https://twitter.com/jeIIyfishport/status/1743099215331639658?s=20
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