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25 rupees for 1 kg of newspaper!!

What? Suprised ? Please dont be. This weekend i was enlightened  about some of the bussiness tactics to which people fall in easily and the strength of MBA.  What bloody brains were working to get this plan ready and fool people.

Lot of old clothes, shoes, vessels and books lying without getting disposed. So this weekend, decided to dispose it after getting to know the “Mega Exchange” offer in Big Bazaar(BB).  So got everything packed and was eager to get it away. These things  were taken by BB people in terms of Kg’s.. So was inspecting them, if they were to do any tricks by lessening the weight. Do you know what happened? Suprising…, the one who weighed started to write 6 kg if the actual weight was 5.2 kg.. Wow, thought that i had come to a right place and who will give 25 rs. for a Kg of paper!. The amount that i would get ran into thousands. Thought i was lucky enough to be able to use this offer.   They gave me coupons worth Rs.500, 200, 100, 50, 25 denominations.

Excitement ended once  i started to buy things. The offer is if you have a 200 rs. coupon, you should buy commondities worth 4 times the coupon value if i were to get discount equal to the coupon value. In simple, if i have 200 rs coupon, and i buy 800 rs. worth, i will get 200 rs. discount, 25% equivalent. I can use the coupons with 1 month validity and only selected brands. Then realized why they used to put 6 kg instead of 5.2.  People, who are dumb like me, will initially be excited by the offer,  would sell the things, get coupons and later on realize that they have entered the vicious cloud of money making minds.  Why the hell should i buy a local, low quality product, just to get  discount. This is totally unacceptable, i feel its a day light robbery as they dont give you complete  information about the offer prior.

Although, i am still happy to have disposed the waste for some ‘x’ rupees, the way, public are blindfolded remains questionable.