Corruption In Refrigerator Sale

Corruption In Refrigerator Sale Business

Here is one of my own recent experience of a major corruption. I purchased a Kelvinator 180 Ltr. Refrigerator on June 3, 2008 form a shop in Mangalore (India). Most importantly for me it had 5 years of Kelvinator Refrigerator Company warranty and other documents. (I have the sales receipts and the Kelvinator company warranty and its other related documents in hand.)

The refrigerator problems started of “improper cooling” and continued compressor running with “no cut-offs”. I lodged its complaint and the shop service crew came to check. There I noticed for the first time that the compressor inside the refrigerator NOT of the Kelvinator Company but of the VIDEOCON, name brand seal label printed on it. I was in real shock. If I had known it had a Videocon compressor I never would have purchased it. I felt totally deceived or tricked or cheated by this shop.

Now let me keep the matter short and to its main point. I sent a complaint letter (date 14-04-2009) to the shop explaining this matter and asking them immediately to correct the wrong with due compensation. One of my suggestions is, take back the refrigerator and reimburse its money back along with its proper compensation dues.

To which I received a response letter dated 18.04.2009 from a fridge service shop in Mangalore who claim to undertake the service of Videocon refrigerators. In it they justify selling the Kelvinator brand name refrigerator fitted with Videocon compressor saying; “Now Kelvinator brand is taken over by Videocon Industries Ltd. that is why they are using Videocon Compressor and it is common in all the companies. No company will manufacture all parts in one product. For e.g. if you purchase one computer its all parts or units are not manufactured by only one company. Its monitor is different company, its Keyboard is different, CPU is Different.” I find this reply very much fraudulent and deceptive if not outright naive for the following main points.

1). Of course it is a universal knowledge that a given product manufacturing company not able to produce every thing that needed to manufacture their product. Especially its basic materials, metal sheets, roads pipes, rubber, plastic parts tubes, paints also the electric wires, nuts-bolts screws etc. However it is totally WRONG for a company manufacturing and selling a given product, to sell it under the disguised body cover brand name and the warranty documents of another company known to manufacture the SAME product. For example; a car producing company selling its manufactured labeled or sealed car engines and other main parts inside the body of another car manufacturing company, complete with warranty documents of that other companies brand name.- In my case Videocon company selling its refrigerator products under the brand name of the Kelvinator refrigerator product. So the unsuspecting people who believe they are buying the product or the latter company (by seeing its outside body cover), in fact tricked or deceived into buying the former companies product disguised in the latter companies brand name. I believe it is basically a case of corruption, cheating or abusing the consumers trust. By the way, Videocon separately sells its own manufactured branded refrigerators.

2). When I purchased the Kelvinator Refrigerator having the company 5 years of warranty with all its document form the shop, I obviously believed that it is a Kelvinator company produced refrigerator that had the same company manufactured compressor in it. The shop did not tell me the fact that this Kelvinator company branded refrigerator having a Videocon compressor inside. If I had been told the fact I would have definitely rejected it and purchased some other refrigerator having its own company manufactured compressor with the warranty. So in fact they deceived or tricked me into buying a refrigerator having Videocon compressor (perhaps other main components as well) presenting me it as a Kelvinator company manufactured refrigerator as shown from its outside body. By not revealing the actual fact I believe the shop breached or abused my consumer trust by a malpractice.

3). The fridge service shops reply letter (date 18-4-09) that compares a branded refrigerator to a computer is quite ridiculous. Even an assembled PC vender clearly notifies the brand name of the monitor, processor, motherboard, hard-disk, RAM, keyboard etc. in their sales and the separate warranty documents.

4). Despite knowing that the closure of Kelvinator refrigerator company long ago, the sales shop issued me the Kelvinator refrigerator company named printed warranty card with the shops stamp seal and signature in it. This could amount to forgery. Quite apart, my consumer complaint of the sales shops breach of consumer trust sent to them replied by this fridge serviece (date 18-4-09) which I find some how inappropriate.

I have decided to take this case to the consumer dispute court in my district in the coming days. If any of the readers interested in knowing more details of this case, please write to my following address:

Valerian Texeira

St Joseph Nagar, Jeppu

Mangalore – 575002. INDIA

Anti-Corruption Leadership More Corrupt

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Paul E. Torrey DUI Manslaughter: Sentenced 18 Years

See its blogpost in http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2009/04/paul-e-torrey-dui-manslaughter.html

Another Anti-Corruption Body Will Fail Unless...

Please note; the above is my Comment title.See its main articles titled "Another Anti-Corruption Body In Offing". See it in

http://dailyguideghana.com/newd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3190&Itemid=243

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu should realize that all their anti-corruption legislation going to fail unless they bring in a legislation first of all to ‘Make all money transaction above a given amount only by Electronic (E) Money, directly through the bank to the bank account necessarily having the Biometric Identity’. This will root-Out almost all corruption and its associated crimes from the society. What is needed is the political will to get it done.

The details of this anticorruption measure explained in its principle document titled “IT To Root-Out Corruption”. Its website www.anticorruption-it.info. More of it in the blog http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com/

DUI Driver Gets 10-Year Sentence

See its main articles in the weblog post:

http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2009/03/dui-driver-gets-10-year-sentence-emily.html

Valerian Texeira
St. Joseph Nagar Jeppu
Mangalore – 575002 INDIA

Credit Card Money To Root-Out Counterfeit Currency

Credit Card Money To Root-Out Counterfeit Currency

Counterfeit Currencies (CC) are the nightmares of common people. It is very difficult for people to commonly distinguish (in a non-embarrassing normal glance) the fake from the genuine notes even for the professionals. It is a major headache for the Governments, sabotaging the economy and pose a serious threat to the national security. The menace of the counterfeit or fake currencies increase as the advancement of printing technology made widely available.

Prevention of the CC from circulation is the Governments main responsibility. However by the time it comes to the notice of the law enforcement agencies notice most of the CC’s already out in the circulation! People who have been caught circulating the CC are mostly petty criminals who’s main job to get it circulated. However the CC’s printing or production racket mainly run by big criminal gangs, powerful mafia’s who most of the times never been caught. Even the countries sponsoring terrorism said to engage in facilitating and sending counterfeit currencies to destabilize the other nations.

In our technologically advancing world today the Governments tries hard to prevent the menace of counterfeit currencies by brining in more and more sophisticated currency papers, printing designs also by allocating more financial resources in the counterfeit currency detection and law enforcement catching the perpetrators. However the menace still continues more or less as it did before!

It is the ‘CASH’ (paper) currency that makes the counterfeit currency circulation possible. As long as the cash trading continues the circulation of the CC’s will remain more or less the same. Fortunately however the Information Technology (IT) today provides the Government with this Electronic (E)money transaction technology or the credit card money that can completely eliminate the menace of the counterfeit currency.

Let me explain the above mentioned this extraordinary IT solution to root-out counterfeit currencies briefly. Most of us today know about doing trade, business, money transaction by the use of “Credit Card Money”. In which the money exchange between the two parties conducted directly through their bank to bank accounts by the aid of Electronic or E-money transfer. This completely eliminates the need of exchange of the paper currency notes (or metal coins) between the two trading party. In this way the credit card or the e-money transaction absolutely get rids of the counterfeit currencies.

I have explained it in details in my paper document titled: “IT To Root-Out Corruption”. Is website www.anticorruption-it.info. More of it in the blog http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com/

IT To Root-Out Illegal Drugs Trade

IT To Root-Out Illegal Drugs Trade

Information Technology (IT) today provides an unprecedented, but extraordinarily simple way for the Government to successfully Root-Out most of the corruption and crimes prevailing today including the illegal drug trade.

To accomplish it, first of all the Governments should Bring in the most important policy of ‘biometric identity in all bank accounts’. I call it “Mandatory Biometric Identity” (MBID), whereby making all money transaction above a given amount only through the bank to bank account. It can be called as; “Mandatory Electronic Money Transaction” (MEMT).

Let me explain how this anti-corruption system works in a simple practical way. Under the above monetary policy, suppose the government stipulates that all money transaction (buying and selling or any money transfer) above say $10 should be only conducted through the bank to the bank accounts. If any one making cash deposit or withdrawals above the given amount should submit the detailed accounts of its income or the payment source.

In this situation if the drug peddler accepts bank to bank account E-money or credit card from the customer in exchange of to the illegal drugs, then electronic money transaction instantly gets recorded in the bank that will serve as the concrete evidence for the law enforcement to arrest and to convict most of them without any difficulty. So instead of the E- or the credit card money the peddlers most probably accept the cash money as they find it safe. However sooner the peddler start to face a serious problem as the cash money gets accumulates into large sums which he/she can not deposit in the banks because it requires the detailed accounts of where all the cash money came from or its original source that is why they avoided doing so in the first place. So for all practical purpose the drug peddler make the cash money payment to the main drug supplier. However then it will put the top drug mafia bosses in far serious problem as it will become extremely difficult for them to dispose (money laundering) such a huge amount of cash money in any available means, since opening a fake bank account or depositing large sums of illicit cash money becomes absolutely impossible due to the Governments MBID/MEMT bank policy.

In such given market environment it won’t be possible to anyone including the drug peddlers or the criminal bosses with the accumulated large sums of cash money, to buy most of the things they want, goods and services worth more than $10 can not be purchased by cash despite their huge amount of cash money while most of their essential goods and services prices generally exceeds that amount. Therefore, for anyone with the large sums of cash money instead of a valuable asset it would become a huge liability very difficult to get rid off, and highly dangerous to keep.

In such situation the traders or the businesses will prefer e-money (credit cards, bank cheques) even for smaller or far less than $10 amount. Similarly the general public also prefer to buy with e-money as almost all their income (salary etc) deposited directly in their bank account as it exceeds more than the stipulated amount and they also will try to avoid accumulating large sum of cash money so prefer purchases by the cards (E-money)payment even while making small purchases. In such a E-money transaction economy every money transaction (licit or illicit) gets instantly recorded with the concrete evidence that overwhelmingly lead into conviction for the criminals engaged in corruption.

This will make it extremely dangerous for any one engage in illicit money transaction the basic foundation on which almost all corruption or crime stand upon. Therefore the MBID/MEMT combined will mostly dissuade any illicit businesses including the illegal drug trade. More on this subject matter in the principle document titled: “IT To Root-Out Corruption” and other main articles in the web links given below.

IT To Root-Out Corruption”

http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-to-root-out-corruption.html

Corruption Is The Root-Cause of Terrorism

http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com/2009/02/corruption-is-root-cause-of-terrorism.html