Chapter 2- The review
“Ye wala bhi. Nikal do..” [Eng Translation - Remove this one too.] She pointed to the POCO M7 base model. “So which one is it?” I asked her as we were down to the last two. POCO M6PLUS & Redmi 13. “Redmi 13 lete hain.” She decided that the Winner. DING DING DING we have a winner., My inner voice announced the Winner and I didnt bother with her reasoning on this. She must have a good reason for picking this phone and all I want was to get away from the Amazon screen and do something else. As I was adding the product to the cart the Price of the product was not showing and the buy button was disabled. Strange I thought to myself. And thats when I noticed that 6GB model is no longer available, and only 8GB are available. That's a 2-3K straight jump in price. The Winner was disqualified for lying about the price. I explained the scenario to her. “To abhi kya POCO lena hain?” she asked. [Eng Translation - Are we going for POCO Now?] “Looks like it.”
“Theek hain. Koi nahi.” [Eng Translation - OK, No Issues] She agreed to proceed with the purchase with the POCO M6PLUS. I clicked on the Product, selected the 6GB/128GB configuration and as I was about to click on proceed to pay, she asked, “Wait a minute, we can choose color?” “Yes, which one do you like? There's Graphite Black, Misty lavender and Ice Sliver?” I asked her. “I like the Black, but check if there's something in Purple or Violet?” “What difference does it.. Never mind. Lets see.” I scrolled the entire page, but nothing there. “Nahi hain. No Purple or Violet.” “Scroll down naa. Check further.” “Nothing ahead, just the rating and review.” I replied and scrolled to the bottom of the page. A big bold 3.8 was written in red. Over 1211 people have reviewed it. And the rating is 3.8.
“3.8? Is that the best?” She asked. “Arey no re.!! It's just people complaining about the delivery service mostly. You can ignore it.” I suggested that we move on with the purchase. “Check it out once, please..!!” she asked. That request left me with two choices. Agree with her, Check out the reviews and waste 1-2hr. Disagree with her, tell her that reviews are Sh!t and waste 1-2days fighting. I went with the first option. “Theek hain, Let's see..” I started going by review by review. “See, delayed delivery 1 star. No service centre, 1 Star. Not getting a refund, 1 Star.. Hitting problem?” “Hitting Problem???” she was confused, same as me. “Dumb people writing dumb stuff on the internet.” I shrugged.. “Theek hain, Aage badte hain.” She suggested ignoring and moving forward with the review. Good Phone, Camera Avg.., Nice Phone, Ok Camera,.. Good for first time android user.. Nice phone, Camera OK, Not for gaming, Battery drains quickly. “Battery Issues.?” She raised her eyebrows. “Arey, Only one guy is complaining about maybe he received a defective piece.” I replied my reasoning.. “And why the camera is just OK, Its should've been amazing, wonderful..” I shrugged, No having any answers. To her question.. And scrolled further to check the users' comments on the phone.. Battery Drains quickly… Music quality not good, otherwise a good phone… my mobile phone gets heated quickly… Hangs frequently and hitting issue.. “Bad battery, Avg camera and Heating issues? Nahi Chahiye ye phone..”[Eng Translation - Dont want a phone with bad battery, avg camera and heating issue]. \ I facepalmed myself.. This is going to be a long day.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
Hi Folks,
So here I am again, with another episode of the short story. I hope you like it. I am planning on putting an end to it in the next episode. I dont want it to join rest of my unfinished stories.
Today was another good day at office, although I am completely swamped with work. I am trying to balance work (Office) and work (home). But making time to get some fun done in between.
As always, a big thank you to IndiaUnited and the BeAwesome community for their love and support.
PS : I know that the AI images are not helping that much. Can you guys guide me on which images would be better? I am trying to make it like a short novel with images.