Our internet cafe will be opening real soon and one of our services will be selling prepaid cellphone load and game cards. We spent last week looking for an official dealer here in Cebu of both cellphone and game cards but most of the places we found only offer prepaid cellphone load.
Aside from the prepaid cards, we were also looking for game posters that we could put up at our cafe. I posted on different forums, including Istorya.net and Ragnaboards but no one was able to give us anything specific. Some said we can buy posters from Carbon or Colon (they're like Monumento and Divisoria here in Cebu). We scoured both areas but we didn't find what we were looking for. I was actually expecting something like a whole area of street vendors with abundant display of posters we can choose from, just like in Cubao. But, no, we didn't even find anything close to it. Argh. It was just a waste of energy.
I decided to post another thread at Istorya.net and luckily, one of the members (handsoff241) pointed me to Cellularis in ACT in front of e-Mall here in Cebu. So, off we went.
My fingers were crossed that Cellularis is the one we're looking for - an official dealer of prepaid cellphone and game cards who'll give us free game posters. I was kinda disappointed with our last search so I was really hopeful. When we first entered their shop at ACT building, I was like "Damn, I don't think they even sell game cards here". I was wrong.
We met Jasmin of Cellularis and at first, we were unsure of how everything will go down. When she found out we're opening an internet cafe, she immediately talked to one of her co-employees, Daks, who hooked us up with game posters and even installation CDs. Damn, I already downloaded some of them - Rohan PH (spent 2 days downloading it 'coz the one from LU!'s ftp site was corrupted), Special Force, and we already have Ragnarok Online. Daks said that they're the official distributors of Level Up! merchandise in Cebu. Good to know!They gave us like more than 10 posters I think. Haven't counted or seen them yet but I'm pretty excited to put them up on Monday. I'm already done with the design and layout of 2 other tarps that we'll be posting - one will be posted right on our entrance and the other one will be hanging in front of our cafe for everyone walking by to see. I just need our official phone # for the tarp.
Going back to Cellularis, we were actually planning on buying prepaid cards right at that moment but Jasmin suggested we don't buy yet until we've seen what our customers will be looking for, what games will be most played at our cafe. Well, we actually knew that already but we thought that the setup was we need to buy first before we get anything. I was really after the posters and the cards. They clarified it, thank God.
Jasmin also suggested that if we want to sell e-load, she will recommend having separate load wallet for Smart, Globe and Sun so we can get higher discounts. That's what we'll be doing.
So, if you're here in Cebu and you're planning on putting up a loading business or you have an internet cafe/computer shop and you want to sell prepaid cards, then, I suggest you go off to Cellularis. They offer bigger discounts for retailers than anywhere else we've seen so we're definitely buying from them. Plus, they have a friendly group of people who'll attend to you and answer your questions, especially when you're a newbie like us. Hehehe.
Here's their contact information and their address. I can't believe I forgot to include that when I first posted this. Hehehe.
Cellularis
2nd level A.C.T. Cybertower (above Jollibee ACT)
Cor. P. del Rosario and Leon Kilat Streets, Cebu City
Contact #: (032)253-8880 / (032) 580-2009
Office Hours: 9am to 6pm Monday to Saturday
Now that I've crossed off game posters and prepaid cards retail on my To Do list, we just need to have all the computers set up at our cafe. We had some minor issues with the units we got but we're hoping they all get fixed before this week ends.
We've already setup Left 4 Dead and DoTA on our computers so we're off to a good start. We're still waiting for PLDT to install our DSL service so that's on top of our list since we can't use Handy Cafe completely and activate Windows without internet connection. We've waited for more than 2 weeks already for the installation and Juvy of PLDT Cebu is giving us a run-around. Hate that. Let's see what'll happen.
THANKS for the sharing of your nice story... can you tell us where is your internet cafe located? we are the same business but my location is somewhere in south of cebu. i will try to call tomorrow and inquire.
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thank you again for posting there contact number. wish you luck.
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No prob! Btw, our cafe is located in Canduman in Mandaue. We're not open yet as we're still waiting for our DSL connection.
ReplyDeleteHi! This arlyn of Level up games. Dakts told me about you. YOu can contact me at 0929 650 0268 for your LU needs like posters and cds. FOr your cards, I suggest you buy the ff denos: 20s, 50s and 100s. You could start your LU cards business for 1k; then, I will give you a door decal sticker advertising you sell LU cards.
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ReplyDeleteThe posters we got from Daks were mostly SF, FlyFF and Grand Chase. I'm hoping to get posters for Rohan and Ragnarok, too.
Regarding the game cards, we'll start selling them as soon as we open 'coz we're still waiting for our DSL connection. Are you also here in Cebu?
Hi all of you there business people! I'm in the Prepaid/Eload business and I buy a lot of my stocks from Cellularis. I guarantee, when it comes to cellphones, cell repair, prepaid cards, game cards and load, there's no other place like Cellularis!
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