Dell’s Indian Support Center!
Here is a funny story on how a dude gets a funny reply from what it looks like is an Indian Dell Support guy when he sent them a mail thanking for providing him a great monitor product. No, he was not asking for any support related to the monitor…
Excerpts from here:
Thank you for contacting Dell about your issue. I’m glad to be of assistance. I sense you are not getting optimal performance from your system. I want to help you get it working quickly so you can enjoy your computer.
I will ensure this situation is corrected. I’m committed to resolve this issue with the monitor.
February 15, 2006
Net4India, Net4Domains: More Insanities
A mail which they sent to their customers:
Dear User,
Greetings of the Day!!
As part of our constant endeavor to bring the best in class service to our most valued customers, we are making an effort to secure web hosting services @ Net4, by restricting usage of certain vulnerable content types (specific file extensions) from being served by our web hosts.
On account of this, you would not be able to upload the list of extensions mentioned below to any of our web hosts effective 02nd February 2006, be it shared (or) split (or) dedicated hosting. Further, files with such extensions would be removed from our web hosts by 20th February 2006.
In effect to this action, if you have uploaded content with such file extensions earlier, and you are worried (or) feel that this might in some or the other way affect the services rendered to you, kindly get in touch with our helpdesk to find a suitable remediation in order to avoid any kind of disruption to services. Any request for assistance in this regard necessarily needs to be looked at, before 20th February 2006.
*.exe, *.com, *.vbs, *.shtm, *.shtml, *.bat, *.cmd, *.hta, *.htaccess, *.bak, *.log, *.reg, *.tmp, *.inf, *.ocx, *.ax, *.bin, *.chm, *.drv, *.msc, *.nt, *.scr, *.sys, *.sig, *.vxd, *.msi, *.wsh, *.wmf, *.asf, *.MPEG, *.mp3, *.mpg, *.avi, *.wma, *.cda, *.wpl, *.rar, *.ra, *.rm, *.eml, *.dbx, *.idx, *.ndx, *.pst, *.ost, *.nfo, *.trc, *.rnd, *.vir, *.nav, *.def, *.ex_, *.pif, *.cab, *.sh, *.h, *.cer, *.pfx, *.key, *.cpp, *.c, *.dbf, *.vba, *.pas, *.bas, *.tcl, *.cob, *.svc, *.ade, *.adp, *.cpl, *.crt, *.hlp, *.ins, *.isp, *.jse, *.lnk, *.mde, *.msp, *.mst, *.pcd, *.sct, *.shs, *.url, *.vbe, *.wsf,*.wsc
We regret any inconvenience to you in this regard.
We are just a call away!
Did I post it in the wrong section? It’s apparently true and I had no choice but to put it here.
November 5, 2005
Indian Matrimony Sites’ FAKE Ads
Friends,
let me present to you Priya - the Research Analyst
Looks good, doesnt she? i fell in love with her when i saw her for the first time at one of these pages:
And i decided to marry her, i mean she looks good..shes 25..and the job title ‘research analyst’ sounds pretty cool too.
So i immediately went to the bharatmatrimony site to see if i can find Priya’s profile and send a message to her. and guess what? she was featuring on the main site too
seemed like she was in big demand. lots of people must have seen her and proposed to her, i was diheartened. and i quit.
Now, my friends, comes the real sad part.
One fine day, while i was browsing away online, i found this picture:
I was shocked! my sweet priya the research analyst is getting hot with some asshole and the picture is on the internet!
and found this one too:
couldnt believe it. i was so relieved and happy that i dint marry her.
after a little search and research, i found out that shes not priya - shes Nauheed Cyrusi, an actress-model. she acted in movies like Inteha, Lakeer and Supari.
so it was all fake! bharatmatrimony guys fooled me and many others. how sad, how sick.
I decided to not get lured by these matrimony ads.
just look at this ad: click on the picture to look at the female in full
The Jeevansathi guys made the female in the above ad to wear a tight chudidaar and push her bust forward for everyone too see and get lured into their sick marriage business.
The porn sites and adult dating sites are more honest and up-to-the-purpose.
Check out this shaadi.com ad where the female is directly inviting us ..
atleast there is some honesty in this ad. it is not pretending - the message is clear, a female directly luring us in!
well thats it from my side.
and in case ur looking for a bride online, u might want to consider this one:
Another research analyst for the taking!
July 5, 2005
Economic Times Insanities
I have no idea whether web version of the newspapers at Economic Times even have Copy Editors…
June 1, 2005
Beware of Indiamart Web Promotion offers
This is an original mail from an actual client of the IndiaMart company!
ATTENTION: ALL MEMBERS OF INDIAMART.
Dear Sirs,
We take this opportunity to bring to your kind notice the fraudulent business practice by India’s premier web design and promotion company INDIAMART INTERMESH LTD” through whom you have also developed and promoted a site like us.
We have been cheated by them in the design and promotion of an online trading site by them in the name of Pacificaa India International at a cost Rs. 1,22,500/-. They secured the order from us by saying that they will promote our website in all 250 major search engines of the world with top position. It took them more than one and a half years to design the site and they took the money by just promoting it in just five search engines whereas their executives while negotiating the order say it will be more than 250 search engines. We have been asking them from time and again for the details of the search engines where they have promoted our site but they provided us the names of five search engines only after one and a half years of hosting the site.
As you are aware that any contract for any work stands completed when the contractor satisfies his client that the work has been done as per the contract. Here, India mart, Instead of providing the list of search engines for us to verify if the promotion has been done in all the 250 search Engines as committed by them, they started demanding a renewal fee of Rs. 28,000 without caring our right to know the details of the Design and promotion of the site for which we have paid them huge amount. We wonder how they can demand the renewal fees when the Design and promotion of the site itself is incomplete. When we categorically told them that they are not providing us the details of promotion because they have not done it except in the five search engines, they suddenly deactivated our site causing us heavy monetary damage by way of investments and infrastructure we made for the online trading on the basis of the said online trading site, designed and deactivated by them including the huge amount paid to them.
We know, like us, many aspiring new and existing business people are being cheated by India mart by claiming themselves as India%12s Top web promoters and offering top ten positions in major search engines. They know that many people do not go for verifying if their site is promoted as committed by them.
We hope you will also check up your website designed by them to see if they have really done the promotion as committed to you while taking the order for designing.
As you know “Top position in 250 Search Engines” means hundreds of people visit the site and there will be an assured business. If you are not getting this it means they have not promoted your site as told at the time of taking the contract for designing and promoting your site.
We should united fight against this fraudulent business practice by raising this issue before the National Consumer Disputes Redressed Commission and also make representations before the Ministry of Information and Technology which is inviting suggestions for amending the IT regulations in the country.
Looking forward for your co-operation,
With best regards,
D. Venu Gopalan
Pacific India International
2151/3D, New Patel Nagar,
Opp. Shadipur Depot,
New Delhi 110 008.
Phone: 25706762 & 25891045
Here is my own personal opinion on the topic which I posted quite sometime ago…
IndiaMart is Evil
I have heard a lot about IndiaMart. I heard they do good work for you. They bring in good business for their clients. They charge pretty decent amount of money for a complete package of web design, development, optimization, and marketing. And surprisingly they get their clients genuine queries within weeks of the website going online.
This is not exactly a surprise. They are online since I believe 7 years, which is a lot considering Indian market. They are top for almost every Indian business related query on Google. So, it’s pretty expected that any export query from a foreign business client finds them to be a good option. So they have clients ready for almost any possible business line. This is where they hit individual search engine optimization people (like me and many other developers I know) very hard. They take all the top spots, leaving little for us.
It is not that they do great work with your site! I have a friend who got them to do his website. The website looked decent. But only on Internet Explorer! The site broke on alternative browsers. He got that fixed. No big deal. But after 6 months, I am yet to see his site do any good. All the incoming links he got are from me! His site does not even come tops on Google for his own firm name. Instead we get a generalized IndiaMart page. Here comes the brilliant logic of IndiaMart and every other business trading site. They make sites for you, but promote you on their sites. So, you pay them, give them traffic and advertisement from your site and get business queries in return. Impressive but awful considering they are not promoting you on the web. You get business as long as you pay them to be on their sites. But your site is nowhere in the picture. This is where individual web developers excel. They cannot generate business for you, but they make sure you are visible if someone searches for you or your related business. Not so delightful in short term but good for long term. You retain your identity on the web, get business directly. But there is always a risk in falling for fake business clients, or even worse no clients.
This makes our job to impress a client about our work over IndiaMart’s a lot harder.
Insanities about ICICI Bank
Insanities about ICICI Bank
The latest I come to know about my favorite bank. If you drop in cash for deposit in the cheque box which is generally forbidden by the company, they will fine you Rs. 100! This was found written on the notice board of the ATM Machine. Nothing was mentioned regarding whether the money would be deposited or not after the fine is applied.
May 30, 2005
Truth about Karan Johar
Well. Let me clarify something. I have nothing against Karan Johar or any other individual. Everything written here is personal opinion and nothing is aimed to defame anyone.
This is from this month of Outlook Magazine 
April 12, 2005
Mera Chowkidaar in Sector 31 Gurgaon
Imaging paying 200 rupees a month to the chowkidaar and finding him missing from his place at 3 am in the morning? That happened to me today. We went for a walk at around 2:45 am (DO NOT ASK the logic behind it!) and found the dude not on his regular position when we reached his area. What we found was an empty chair and a Hyundai Santro car parked besides his chair.
We missed that moment but returned with the camera. Bingo! He was there seated comfortably in his seat. I already hate to pay him 200 bucks for doing nothing considering he won’t be paying me money to buy a new bike in case my splendor gets stolen. And now I find him missing from his place at the height of the night!
Damn fool. Now, I have a feeling he collects tons of money from everyone around my house and has already bought a Santro. Don’t believe me? Here is a snapshot…
March 31, 2005
Schools of today’s age
There is this school in the sector I live in. Rishi Public School…
Impressive building. Tons of space. Buses and all. However, they do not seem to care about what they represent to common man. Here is a snapshot of the board representing the school on the road side just besides the school.
What in the heaven’s sake is Recdgnisfd! Maybe they need to get the people working for them educated first…
Do we want the kids to grow up fast?
It’s a bad bad world. With so many things to worry about, tensions about lakhs of things… who wants to grow up! And mother dairy is running this advertisement in their shops!
Sorry Sir, if I have my wish… I had rather be a kid. Or at least 18 till I die…
