Emotionally Speaking

Avoid ‘Cost to Cost’ computer shop in Nehru Place

A few readers on another post on this blog have commented narrating their bad experience with ‘cost to cost’ computer shop at Nehru place. Here is a quick list of grievances against them: autocratic behavior, bad customer support, take-it-or-get-lost-we-don’t-care attitude of staff. I myself witnessed some of these on a recent visit to the shop. [...]

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Book Downloading sites like Library.nu and Gigapedia?

Sometime in mid-Feb a consortium of international publishers successfully drove library.nu to shut down operations and the website is no more there (which despite the immorality is a big loss to the international community). So are there other book downloading sites like giga pedia and library.nu? You may read some suggestions on this post though. [...]

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Buy online with Discount codes

Any smart online shopper will know that online shopping sites/ e commerce sites offer discounts/discount codes or coupons particularly in the starting phase when they are establishing themselves. This is true of Online Megastore Flipkart (I bought lots on 20 per cent off discount code two years ago, over and above the default discount) or [...]

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Don’t buy from Bag it Today or India Today

Bag it today from the India today Group is a bad online shopping option if you have been influenced by their ads or spam messages. Someone I know had ordered this shoe (see image) from them and got a black colour, poor quality shoes! India today group has earlier sent poor prints of good books [...]

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Buying insurance online is fun

I have done a lot of online shopping from various sites and could be one of the most experienced online shoppers in India. I have bought most things that you could name from a small cycle horn (Decathlon, Btwin) to hundreds of books (Flipkart) or contact lenses (Healthkart, Lenskart). Recently I bought insurance online from [...]

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Buy all sports goods online from Decathlon and Lifemojo dot com: Shop Online

Decathlon (French company; Indian office in Bangalore) sells quality sports goods related to almost any sport from running and hiking to swimming, skating and cycling. It has various brands under its belt to cater to various sports segments. Lifemojo.com is an online Decathlon reseller. It has the cheapest prices online and very good customer service. [...]

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