Thus I booked a car …

It’s simple news that I have – I booked a car. But this exercise has revealed a lot about sales people and the sales pitch that even my ISB MBA failed to teach.

I booked Maruti Swift exactly one month back. As usual, I went through a lot of test drives and was impressed with Swift. Then started the search for car loans. I met a lot of honest people with loads of lies (aka sales people). HDFC got my papers and gave a quote around 2040 EMI per Lakh. I thought they were joking. ICICI came to 2030 and said that nothing below is possible. HDFC came down to 1999 and suddenly ICICI gave quote for 1992. I didn’t know how impossible things became possible.

Finally, I went for HDFC and at the time of giving cheques, he asked for Insurance amount. He didn’t inform me prior that I have to take insurance with them but the trained guys convinced me to take insurance with them (Just that brain doesn’t work some times)

I waited patiently for one month (that was the waiting time given by the dealer) and I was informed that it will take two more months due to spike in demand and production problems. I was frustrated and just cancelled the booking.

Then the same cycle started again when I decided to look for C segment cars. After meeting the icons of Ikon, going thru the indigo of Indigo, hearing the accents of Accent and taking the course of Corsa, I finally settled for Accent. I am again going thru the loan process, negotiating with the Maruti dealer to give the loan cancellation charges, pursuing the Hyundai dealer to keep the promise of delivering by weekend … Boy, things are not that easy …

Its not just Car … I have paid the full amount for Tata Indicom broadband connection last month and am still waiting for the connection …

Post-script: It sucks to see that I didn’t blog for a week but my company that is gracious enough to employ me is intelligent enough to keep me struck in a hectic schedule. Hope I should have ample time after our release on July 15^th. I can blog regularly then.