Shell shocks Prabhu
Metroblogger Prabhu loses his credit card at the Shell outlet in Vadapalani thanks to an inefficient attendant and a hasty customer. Further Prabhu lands up at the police station to complain only to discover that he is not the first shell shocked customer:
Last week I happened to refuel at Shell Petrol pump, opposite Vadapalani Bus stand. I have heard from my friends that it was very professional and good. The moment I entered, the guy asked me to turn off the engine and mobile phone. Someone filled the petrol, and someone else cleaned the windshield. Right next to me there was an Idiot* in Swift It was good until then. Things changed when I gave my credit card for billing. Since I had to check the tyre pressure as well, the attendant asked me to proceed and he said he would bring my credit card there.
That is an interesting story.
I don’t know how much credit card fraud there is here, but in UK, there is a lot. It frequently occurs in places where the card is not swiped in front of the customer, such as restaurants, though petrol places figure too. There are machines to duplicate the magnetic record on the card. The new Chip&Pin system has reduced this, but I think it is not eliminated.
People do make mistakes, and people do fail to check. Last week, we went shopping and bought a not-expensive sari and some not-expensive fabric.
Just as we got back to the car we had the bank message … your account has been debited Rs.6,860! We had used the card twice that afternoon, but for a few hundred rupees each time.
I couldn’t say how much we’d spent in the silk shop, but got out the bills straight away: they added up to Rs.686, and I’d signed a card slip for 6,860! We returned to the shop, who immediately rectified the mistake.
Mighty shoddy that shell is developing quite a bad reputation… The fuel quality is one of the best available and much preferred.
But on another note, there are loads of HP bunks in chennai who’s employees distract the customer while fueling.
Why do you copy paste from one blog to another?
@django :
Appadi veechu aruvala. Nicely said. Mistakes are common. Making a big atomic cloud of that is – what django said above.
@django – how a remark was published by Mr. vivek even without the coometns of “django”, I wonder:
@django – how a remark was published by Mr. vivek even without the commetns of “django”, I wonder:
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