Marketing by Morons
I’ve been frustrated for a very long time with Vodafone Services. If their pathetic network and slow data services were not a reason enough to hate them, they started giving two promotional calls everyday offering some really dumb stuff. This is despite me opting out of promotional offers.
The funniest part is when they send me SMS saying: “Hi, I am Rhea from Hyderabad and I want to be your friend. SMS Chat at Rupee 3/SMS.” How ridiculous is this? To top this they started sending me SMS on how I can improve my skin tone. As a proud brown man, this came to me as a racist attack.
Now comes this scary part, a guy calls me and says “Hello Sir, I’ve a great offer from Vodafone. For only 400 INR/ month you can chat with as many girls as you want” I laughed my ass off an ddied laughing, my phone dropped and I only regained consciousness and came back to life after a good 10 minutes. Though scary and funny, this conversation made by day.
My rendezvous with phone doesn’t end here and I am sure I’ll be bombarded with such offers day after day. The real question is do I as a consumer have a choice? I did ask them to opt me out of such dumb promotion services but I guess my request didn’t register in their records — or they chose to ignore it. I think I’ll try reminding them once again and if I get further promotional messages/ calls, I might consider to sue them.
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Deepak Kumar
