Living a day without internet

Ask me what is the main goal of any website? Lots of people will say the main goal is to sell your personal info. I deny that. The main goal of every website is to make you addicted to that website. I realised this last night when I watched videos on youtube till 5 am. The videos were funny, educational and interesting but I didn’t sleep all night (although I did watch few videos on how to sleep early).

Now depending upon the amount of sleep deprivation a person’s mood next day could be groggy, grouchy or grumpy. Now being a normal person I had all the three moods during the day and sometimes at the same time. I am not a misanthrope but without my night sleep I become the guy who supports Hannibal Lecter for eating the people he despised. 

My attitude during the day was of a guy who overnight became a beggar from millionaire. Everywhere I looked I saw people reading, writing, forwarding, and deleting whatsapp messages. Everyone was happy except me who was exiled from the wonderland of social networking for not having any data credit to access internet. 

It’s now midnight. Thanks for reading my blog post. I have to go now. Youtube is waiting for me. I will go to sleep as soon as I have watched all the interesting videos on youtube. 

I found a fake listing on Amazon

This happened with me on 15.04.2018, Sunday. I wanted to read Dan Brown’s Origins so I went to Amazon to buy a copy. Amazon told me the book after discount is available for Rs358. It also said that some other vendor on its platform is ready to sell it for Rs340. I calculated that it meant I could save Rs18. Nowadays for Rs18 one can’t even get a good pavbhaji but one can get a decent scoop of ice-cream. So I decided to save money for ice-cream and ordered from the cheapest seller. 

In evening I got a call from Mr. Cheapest Seller.

“You booked this Origins book from Amazon, right?” the Cheapest Seller asked.

“Yes, I did,” I replied. 

“The book we have is much more expensive than what you have ordered. You won't be able to afford it. Cancel your order.”

I think the original price of Origins’ hardcover copy is Rs799. I don’t know how the online vendor found out my financial position but I want to assure everybody who is reading this blog post that I can afford to spend Rs799 on a single book. However, if the vendor doesn’t want me to sell the book at the ordered price then I think I will take my business somewhere else instead of dealing with unscrupulous people. 

I wanted to tell the seller, “If you don’t want to sell the book at Rs340 then you shouldn’t have listed it on Amazon. Please don’t negotiate price after the order has been placed. I think this is cheating and I can’t trust any Amazon vendor anymore.”

But I didn’t

It was Sunday evening and I like to wait till Monday mornings to start acting grouchy. I told Mr. Cheapest Vendor that I will cancel the order and I did it as soon as the phone call was disconnected.

Thanks to everyone who read this blog post. I hope you have a wonderful day and don’t have to deal with a fraud online vendor ever.