Friday 11 May 2018

Online Shopping Risks II

I had just ringed the bell and soon found myself in front of a nice looking middle aged woman. She was the person I had talked over the phone and she recognised me straight away. She asked me if I had found the place easily and I agreed. We began to have more chit chat sort of conversation about the family, health and travel while I sat at the sofa in the drawing room. She offered me tea and before I could even answer yes or no, she was walking away to make one.

Soon she began to ask me personal questions from inside the kitchen and I found myself going in to have a better conversation as it was hard to hear or make much sense of it while sitting outside. As we were chatting she asked me to give her tea from the top shelf, then the sugar and the milk from the fridge. She had began asking me to help her without my being aware of what I was doing. It soon dawned upon me when I found myself cutting onions while helping her prepare dinner for her husband. I had hardly been much inside the kitchen in my own home and had never ever helped my mother or my girlfriend in cooking. Yet here I was in a stranger's house and helping cook food that I was not even going to eat. She had kept me very involved in conversation while sipping on the tea and still kept giving me instructions here and there. Together we finally cooked the whole dinner and I could finally take a bit of rest. It had been a tiring experience for me.

It had been an hour since my arrival that we finally talked about the dress for the first time. I had simply forgotten about it with so much strange stuff happening in between. She began by telling me how the dress did not fit her at all and so she had never been able to wear it. It had been gifted to her by her brother who no longer was with her. It had a lot of sentimental value to her but she was forced to give it up as her husband did not want her to keep it anymore.

She said she wanted to request me to do something for her before I took away the dress.


Online shopping risks

My girlfriend always used to complain how I never got her any nice gifts. She would keep telling me about how her friends got thoughtful, expensive and loving gifts. I realized that she was trying to give me a hint to get a nice surprise gift for our anniversary which was coming soon. So I began to listen closely for any other hints or suggestions for what she requires or would love to have, so that I could buy it for her. This would help me gain lot of brownie points for the future and make her happy. Soon it was clear from her small actions or suggestions that she was looking forward to getting some nice Indian traditional dress. He knew well that she was not the kind of girl who liked wearing saree, she had go really angry once when she had got one from her family. I decided to pick the next best thing I found girls wearing in a marriage video. So I finally decided to get some fancy and designer lehenga choli for her.

It seemed like a great idea until the time I went to the designer store. I found out that all of them were beyond my budget. The salesgirl there told me that may be I should try online marketplaces or exchange sites where they may be selling second hand dresses that people have only wore once on very special occasions. She even gave me a link for one that had been working best for a lot clients to resell the dresses they had bought at her shop. I thought I would buy a dress from the that marketplace and get it drycleaned before gifting. This way I can gift my girlfriend a very expensive dress without it burning a big whole in my pocket.

I visited the website that very day and found an extraordinary deal on a dress which was being sold less than half price but had not even been wore once. It seemed a complete steal so I called up the owner in the ad and a middle aged woman answered the phone. She asked me to come tomorrow to her place and view the dress before buying it from her. The address was a house located in the outskirts of the city but the money I was making in discount was way more than transport cost so I didnt mind. I took a bus there the next day and finally found the house in the middle of nowhere. It was a single house in the entire plot of a huge housing colony that was constructed till now. It was strange to live in a place with no inhabited land or house nearby. I was feeling a tingling feeling in my gut a bit of fear but I ignore it and decided to ring the bell as I was already here.