What you possess, others covet - Nokia

What you possess, others covet

-          Nokia

Somewhere in a suburb of Chennai:

A young girl saunters into a Univercell store with a friend in tow. She has been the targeted for a good-natured prank by the management of the store and Nokia.

The girl desires to buy a smartphone that quite naturally has all the features.

Quite naturally, the salesman shows her seven different and popular mobile brands with the exact features. 

Do you have any one brand in mind, asks the salesman helpfully?

The bewildered child vaguely asks for a popular brand with “all the features”.

 The wily salesman says he has just the product that she is looking for. He reaches out for several phones of different brands. A couple have five of the features she is looking for while the rest of the features are available in the other brands. He wonders that perhaps she would like him to pack them all? 

While the girl is consulting with her friend, the salesman smiles mischievously and hands her the bill for all the mobiles, the amount of which is astronomical, to say the least, considering that they are all popular smartphones.

Bewilderment mounts to consternation as the girl realises that she has been duped into buying so many phones that she did not even recollect committing to! (Oh, dear!) 

Trembling with anger, she demands to speak with the manager. All of this and much else is recorded and uploaded on YouTube! (Oh, dear!) (Make that, oh, dear!²)

The girl’s hysteria would have made her breathless for want of air had it not been for the manager who sprung out from she knew not where!

She is gently told of the joke that was played on her and would she be so kind as to accept the Nokia at a fraction of the original price, with best compliments from Nokia?

 And oh, yes, all the accessories that she would like are on the house!

The girl walks out with her friend a proud owner of Nokia Asha 300.

 Now wouldn’t her pals at school turn green with envy at the ‘prized catch’ and that too at such a bargain and in the manner that she had just received?

What’s it they say, what you possess others covet? 

So true, indeed, don’t you think?