The magistrate said it was no defence for the maid agency to say the customer should have chosen a pricier package as getting a maid who could speak well at that price was like "looking for a needle in a haystack". SINGAPORE: A maid agency that falsely claimed its domestic helper could speak Mandarin was ordered by a Small Claims Tribunal (SCT) to pay about S$1,558 (US$1,210) to its dissatisfied customer. The customer had specifically asked for a Mandarin-speaking maid with experience in