Letters to the 3 Musketeers!

Inspired by Karthik's blog post Social media lessons from a 70+ year old man! I have understood the need of sending personalised communication in addition to the Social Media ranting.

So, taking a cue from the blog, I managed to find the contact details of the Station Head of Red FM in Mumbai, The Managing Director & Head of Marketing at Travelocity and Zonal Office of Amul India.

 In addition to explaining my situation, I have also sent Travelocity an invoice, charging them for harassment and misinformation.

If anyone wants to read those letters, do let me know, I shall share them else, will keep you updated on the responses.

Let's see what these letters do, considering these brands and companies have show complete lack of ownership.

Red FM Bajate Raho! Kiski Baji? (Part 2)

After almost a week of all the RED FM madness, someone from the RED FM team decided to reply on the Facebook Fan Page saying something like "hi everyone...we understand your grievances ...but you need to know the fact that der are hundreds of callers in the boardline at the same time.Its your luck if we pick your call as we cant figure out who is it actually calling. @ Leena...at the end of the day its not about sending 100 messages but about gettng any one message selected for a pass.. Sorry about that but all we can say is that keep msging and I am sure you will b a winner soon...." 

To which i replied "Its not about not winning on the contest, its about the process you guys follow to select winners. You call someone and shortlist them even though there is no other round of questions, why shortlist someone at all? Call me only when I Have won the prize or else don't call at all!"

Well, they replied back to my comment saying "Hi sahil , I hope you had received a call from my team and it was clarified to you why that call was made and why you ditn receive the prize. Shortlisting of listeners doesnt mean he or she is a confirmed winner. Nevertheless we appreciate that you voiced your concern and we are there to take care of allthese.thnks for choosing red fm" 

And after this, I was removed as a fan of their Fan Page and my previous comment was deleted! And now i am not allowed to comment on any message on the Red FM Wall!

When they first contacted me, I was nice enough to remove any brand names in the previous post! But now, the previous post is back as it was initially published!

Sorry guys! You asked for it!

Red FM Bajate Raho! Kiski Baji?

Was driving home from work today and was listening to the radio. The evening show RED FM was on. Like everyone, they too are having this New Year and Christmas contest where they are giving out shopping vouchers.

RJ Mantra and his side kick Cookie were hosting the show and Cookie had hidden some gift vouchers. The simple question was to guess where the vouchers were hidden basis the hints and you could win a voucher for yourself.

Since I was waiting at the signal, I whipped out my cell phone and sent them a message. In the next 5 minutes I got a call from someone from RED FM, and the following conversation took place

SJ: Hello?

RFM: Hey is that Sahil?

SJ: Yes it is!

RFM: Sahil, I am calling from the Radio Station, you just sent us a message about the question we asked on air right?

SJ: Yes I did!

RFM: Can I ask you where you work?

SJ: At a TV Channel

RFM: A TV Channel? Really? Which one?

SJ: NDTV Imagine!

RFM: Wow! Cool! Also, have you won anything on radio?

SJ: Yes, my wife won a cellphone a couple of months back?

RFM:  Arre Wah! When was this?

SJ: I don’t remember, I was some time back!

RFM: Ok Sahil, your number has been shortlisted! Will call you if your number makes it to the next round! And when I call back the next time, sound excited!

SJ: Sure man!

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Beep Beep Beep

Then I was waiting and waiting and waiting! No word from the Radio Station!

What kind of twisted person calls you and tell you that you have been shortlisted? You call me if I have won! Don’t call me if I haven’t! It’s so stupid to do something like it. And what’s the deal with telling me to sound excited!? Give me the voucher and see how excited I would be!

Pure dumb!