Sify Tales... part 7

Ok guys, so just when you thought that the clog of Sify tales was over, its time for the grand finale! :-)) It so happned that after a lot of emailing and wasting of time, the gurus of swindling thought that they'd give me a free pack. A free pack! Wooo HOOOO! Am I lucky or what! LOL! But then you can hardly call 7 days of free surfing worthy compensation for a 20 day loss. Oh well. I guess I need to learn how to bargain, an art I unfortunately just don't possess.

Well... I used the 7 days to the best that I could. 7 days got over. And well the connection was still working. So I thought since I had read about the connection being enabled late, I had been given some extra days. I used it on that day as well. And then next day when I logged in, it showed my expiry date as NULL. Interesting piece of software they got there. I wonder how many people can understand what NULL means on your expiray date. Well to me it meant, this connection is yours forever! LOL.

Somehow, good things don't last that long and anyway I was getting sick and tired of the pathetically slow speeds they offer in comparison to Triband!!! I logged in and it showed that the account would expire on the 21st of November. Okay... so now something was fishy. It appears that SIFY likes to just disconnect and renew your account without asking you ever if you want to do that. Well I guess like the idiot I am I decided that I won't use cause these guys may come around asking for their dues. Actually I should have vasooled the opportunity but then, you know.. I think I'd get my work done quicker @256 kbps on Triband rather than @64kbps on SIFY...

Ok, cut to a couple of days ago. Local cable wala shows up asking for money. I must say that he was most uncerimonioulsy sent away. Cut to yesterday when I got a call from SIFY. Asked them, "How do you expect a customer to continue with a company that chooses when it shall disconnect and reconnect their connections. Was a pathetic experience."

I wouldn't say that I got fair compensation in the end. I mean you can hardly call 7 days free in lieu of 20 days perfect especially after having taken another internet connection. I should have really gotten one month's money back from them. But anyway, I guess its just a question of what's better:

"Something's better than nothing."

OR

"If you're doing something then do it properly!"