[05&06/11/2016] Community Service Initiative - The last remaining 18 hours = 0 hours left.

Finally! The time has come where we go to Amcorp Mall and start raising some funds for PPOC buy selling their handmade products.

Since there are 8 of us, we divided into 2 groups, 4 people come on Saturday and the other 4 come on Sunday but with an exception of me and Annabel coming both days to supervise and we were in charged to hold the things needed that day and Stephnie for video taking.

On Saturday, Eka, Raymond, Stephnie, Annabel and me were the first people to start the fundraising. Our spot were by the escalator where people use to go up to 1st floor and go down to ground floor. We all think it was a good spot as people go by there a lot to use the escalator and they can't help but to look around at what we're selling.

We were there for 9 hours which was from 9am-6pm for both days.

The first 5 people to come on Saturday (sans Annabel, she was taking the photo)

For the first day, we sold a total of RM156. There were people (mostly women) buying the tote bags, hand towels and pouches but the pouches made more sale compare to the others. As a team, we took turns to walk around and having our lunch break, exploring the mall and looking at the flea market. Raymond went crazy over the flea market, I think he fell in love with the mall.

On this day as well, our respective lecturer, Ms. Noorseah took the time to come and visit us with her daughters and bought herself a tote bag.

On the 2nd day, it was Nicoule, Gracia and Erin's turn to tend the booth, me and Annabel were there to give a hand. This time our spot wasn't at a really good spot.

We were hidden away in the center where less people would come in and walk. People would mostly make one round without taking a "shortcut" at the center where we were located at but surprisingly we sold more on this day because our member herself bought a few for herself to bring home and once again the pouches caught people attention.

Us 5 working on Sunday.

The profits we got from both days. A total of RM361 was sold that day.

In conclusion, it was a great experience having to tend the booth and catering the customers. There were a lot of people that was interested in buying the tote bags but the moment they heard the price, they straight away changed their mind, I guess it was too expensive for them considering it's a flea market and some of them tried to bargain to which with permission of Ms. Amy, we did gave discounts to some customer. I feel like the price was the cost of the lack of profits from both days and maybe how we appeal to the customer. Some vendors, they only have 1 or at least 2 tending their booth but for us we had 5 people tending the booth and we look like we didn't fit in the atmosphere as most of the vendors are adults to elderly. 

But it was still a great experience pretending it's your own 'business'.

[02/11/2016] Community Service Initiative - The next 2 hours = 18 hours left.

During semester break, few days before our fundraising day, me and Annabel went shopping at IOI Mall, Puchong to get stuff we need for our booth especially the maroon coloured table cloth.

We made a list of things to bring and buy so that we don't forget anything on that day itself.

In the end we only ended up buying the table cloth, a stand to place our poster and printed our posters and stickers.

The poster were used to tell people that the process from the sale will be given to PPOC.

The stickers were used to package the products when customer come and buy.

[25&26/10/2016] Community Service Initiative - Next 2 hours = 20 hours left.

Since Mr. Ridzuan told us to come on the 25th October as that's the Tuesday of end of October but at 2pm which is after lunch because in the morning are the people who wants to book for the whole month. We only wanted to book for 2 days so they gave priority to the others first.

Me and Annabel made our way to Amcorp Tower to meet up with Mr. Ridzuan together with the products to show him what we're selling since it's their rule to show a physical product of what you're selling before booking.

So he explained to us how the booking process works, he would tell us that there's two wings, east and west and that the east wing is only open on Sunday and west open on both day and we are able to book the empty spot with no name written on it as he was showing the layout plan of the flea market. We chose the 1st floor, because we think it's a good floor that we can promote the products well. Since that will be the 1st floor people go up to from ground floor. We chose an empty spot that's by the escalator for Saturday and by the column in the middle for Sunday.

At first we booked for the week of Deepavali, 29th and 30th October since he said there's empty spots for that weekend, unfortunately after discussing with the group, some of us can't make it for that week, so we quickly called Mr. Ridzuan the next day asking if we can change to the next week (1st week of November) instead, he said yes and told us to come to the office after lunch to settle it. So we did and we changed the date to 5th and 6th November. The payment still remain as it is which was RM80 for both days. 

[18/10/2016] Community Service Initiative - The next 1 hour = 22 hours left.

After sharing with the group about my trip to Amcorp Mall, everyone agreed to book there and we've decided to do it during the first week of November which happen to be during our semester break.

Therefore, before going to book the place on the 25th October, we (me, Eka and Annabel) went to PPOC first to pick up the products and update Ms. Amy about our plan.

After taking few of the products with us, she explained to us the prices for each product.

We took quite a number of tote bags with various sizes, pouches and hand towels as you can see below.