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Monday, January 29, 2018

Consumer Tips for ye online shoppers

Consider this a friendly sharing of information from an occasionally ardent online shopper. Be careful when you order from:

1. Jabong. Or atleast, if you're ordering a nice, comfy-looking-but-luxuriant (but 100% polyester whattodo), robe from Next on Jabong that you fondly imagine will allow for delicious moments of lounging about while writing your thesis, Sherlockian pipe in mouth (smoke-free. Kids-don't ruin lungs, yours and others' within passive smoking distance).

It will tell you for a full month that they are processing your order, and you remember that time when Amazon did the same with the paperback version of Bruce's memoir and then ultimately conveyed its regrets and said it'd refund your moneys when all you wanted was the book and not the moneys.

2. Lulu and Sky. Not because their customer service is shit or anything; on the contrary accented fellows will call up promptly to tell you that there was a problem with the card payment and would you like to convert your order to cash on delivery and you say yes ok and then soon after another accented fellows will call and say actually the card payment did go through but don't worry it will be credited back to you in 4 days (and you wouldn't even have known you'd paid twice for your rainbow boots had the fellow not called) and it is.

No, not because of that, but because they make ullu of you by saying BIG DISCOUNT FOR 6 HOURS ONLY and you believe them and make father and mother and brother wait at the dinner table while you rush to make payment (because it is 2 minutes until end of that 6 hours) and then two hours later find same sale still on. And because you will get sms every day from them using same strategy and telling you end of season sale 65% off, and hurry last day end of season sale, until you are convinced they think they can convince you that you're living in a time warp and that at the end of every day the clock resets and you start that day all over again, hence making it possible to have endless last days and your inbox will start to fill up.