An interesting comparison

So how many times have we subscribed to a newsletter or something else online and then wanted to unsubscribe one day. When we subscribed we were on in like 10 seconds. But when we want to unsubscribe we get: Please allow upto 7 days for getting removed from our mailing list.

A more blatant example for the WSJ (Wall Street Journal). I took an online subscription that automatically renews every month. Now I was able to subscribe and start using WSJ in no time at all. But when I wanted to unsubscribe I had to make like 10 clicks and then finally I found a page that said you gotta send an EMAIL with your id and address etc. to some id@wsj.com and then they will put you off the hook…. that was SO convenient! *sarcastic*

Ooh they’re having a partyyyy!!.. But wait are they so busy partying that they’ve stopped working?!

So I ordered this bluetooth headset for $42 on July 4. Within a day price got reduced to $40. I called and they reduced the price on my order and upgraded shipping to 2 day. I should be happy right? No!!

The item is supposed to ship on 6th and reach me on 8th. But today’s 8th and it hasn’t even started getting packed. Not only that the price is now $38. So I call again. The customer representative reduces the price and upgrades shipping to one day (saying that I won’t be charged for it!). So I should now be happy right ? No!!

I check my amazon account and hey she’s charged me $16 for shipping. I call again and FINALLY the product is "supposed" to ship today and reach me on monday. Lets wait and see what happens.

But the main question for Mr. Bezoz is: If you are such a big successful nice retailer, and have a 30 day price reduction policy, then why don’t you simply refund my money ‘automatically’ whenever the price of the product that I bought goes down ??? I simply fail to understand………. (

There is a huge market for storing/backing up your files online. People buy .mac specifically for this (and other things too..). But lets say Yahoo! (or for that matter Google too) were to decide that they were going to use their respective browser toolbars to enable users to drag and drop files onto their respective online storage space ?

Yahoo already has the briefcase (which i dont think many people use….plus its only 20mb). Google is well placed to let users use a portion (if not the entire) storage space of gmail for this purpose.

Anyone know of such a thing existing out there ?

I just hate them. They slow down the downloading of pages and are mostly very crappy. I dont understand why Yahoo! doesn’t do away with the silly banner ad’s on many of their websites. They have done away with them on some of the revamped services (or so it seems). But they need to take certain policy decisions like google and stick to them come what may.

I think yahoo! offers a plethora of features which many people don’t know about. I used their toolbar yesterday on my linux firefox and was surprised by the ease with which it was able to import all my toolbar bookmarks. The really cool thing is that I can now see these bookmarks from my windows firefox yahoo! toolbar…. since its all authenticated through my yahoo! id…… it makes the loading of firefox slow by a second or so…. but its worth the wait…. although am not sure it’s the best way to sync bookmarks, but as far as my knowledge goes google toolbar doesn’t offer this feature yet!

ok don’t expect me to blog regularly. There is an interesting articlethough that I would like to mention.

Its about how geeky Bill Gates is. Isn’t it expected from him?! We end up talking so much about google (and sometimes yahoo too!) that we forget that MS still rules