Sometime ago I got a domain from yahoo domains service. I searched for the domain and selected to buy. somewhere midway in the process i left for some other task till the time i came back i wasn’t sure if i had already done the payment process and the interface which is much cleaner then godaddy or the likes but with unclear messages did not help. I clicked for something like deactivate so that i don’t have to be charged and i will complete the process from beginning.But the interfaces weren’t clearly conveyed it to me that i already got the domain and my payments have been accepted and most important what exactly the deactivate means there.
I got 2-3 mails from them first one order confirmed last one cancelled confirmed. So now i was clear that i have been charged and i cannot even access my account so i wrote to the support and they replied back that i must reactivate again.I did but now i was charged again for the domain which by the order receipt i already owned. So i wrote again to the customer support and he wrote since he cannot access the billing information i must contact billing department at: the rest is template mail.I never contacted them again.
Another one is of the auto bill pay service of icici which i wanted for my phone bills and after doing all the confirnation this and confirmation that they never activated it.Then again after a year they contacted me and apologised for last time but this time they will certainly do it may be some more months after.My vodafone number did not worked for a month because the customer care executive cannot get my address verified. There are others from the SBI demat service, standard chartered and Bajaj allianz. The list is long the best option looks like to keep them away and live life like old fashioned way.
Ovi store is the much hyped nokia version of apple store but it doesn’t come anywhere near to the latter either in the application it contains or the site usability. Ovi store have applications for the S60 based phones which again have many varieties among themselves like screen size and hardware resources. Ovi store have variant of applications for different type of phone models and the download link is sent to the mobile via sms. I tried it with my nokia 6110 navigator and many of the application links did not work.
The bigger names are missing even after one month when the ovi store is launched. The site usefulnuss is not good either, the pages sometime jam with the response to ajax did not come back, session times out pretty soon and the search don’t show relevant results. For the nokia phone owners at last there is a place where the users can look for the applications they wanted. But unlike of apple store the ovi store does not look like it will be the preffered way to distribute applications for the bigger application makers.