In a toy-catcher machine. Mr kelvin Lee, 24, who operates two toy-catcher machines at the Golden Mile Food Centre, said he has given away four of the extremely popular fruit phone as prizes since Oct 7. And there’s still one more left to be grabbed (at the time of writing of kush)!

The machines are placed along the corridor outside Mr Lee’s shop on the second storey of the mall, where he offers repair and modification services for game consoles. He came up with that idea of giving away iPhones as prizes to draw customers to his shop, though he said that he didn’t put up any signs to highlight the coveted prizes.

“My plan was to attract schoolboys and army boys to my shop, hoping they would see the iPhone and get their friends to come,” he said. “I thought it would take at least a week before anybody could win the first iPhone 4…I also expected the winner to spend at least $250 and take about two hours to win it.”

But to his dismay, he said a man he believes is Australian spent only half an hour and less than $50 before winning an iPhone on the first day. Each try on the machine costs $1. The next day, two women won an iPhone each. Each took almost two hours and spent less than $200, said Mr Lee. The fourth iPhone was won the day after that by a man who spent $79 in an hour.

“I think it was sheer luck because even an expert in toy catchers would take at least an hour. I knew that putting up the iPhone 4 as a prize would mean a loss to my business, but I thought it could help raise the profile of my shop…But in the last week only about 10 people came by my shop. I am disappointed because I didn’t expect the iPhones to be won so quickly. I thought it would take about a week for each iPhone to be won.”

Mr Lee said he had planned to put another five iPhones in the toy catchers but is now undecided because of the dismal traffic to his shop. He claimed that he used to collect about $10 from both machines every day. Over the weekend, he said he collected about $200, excluding the amount spent by the winners. According to Mr Lee, each winner is allowed to win the iPhone only once.

SOURCE via Digital One