Pleasure's all mine!
I believe, that consumers of any service or product should openly share their user-experiences with others. Consumers should do so objectively and without the intent of letting off steam. Thereafter, it's up to the product/service makers to listen to the market buzz about their offering and make course corrections. It's a win-win situation for the seller and the buyer (in a perfect world
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Rs. 3,999/- for an year + Tips and Recos Free
Rs. 2,999/- for six months without Tips and recos. They will charge you Rs. 1,000/- if you decide to continue for the remaining period. But you have tell them before the end of the six-month term. (I opted for this after negotiation. Since they don't disclose such a possibility unless you ask. That's why I remarked in my previous post that HSL is come up with a new frill to squeeze those pennies out of our pockets. We can be a tad bit smarter and avoid being a total loser, no?
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There's a portfolio functionality in there and it needs to be updated manually (Dumb is an understatement). Moreover, the portfolio in their lacks the "Unrealized Gains/Loss" and "Realized Gain/Loss" data-points, apart from list of lacunae in other areas of the software. I believe, these data-points are vital to have in the portfolio itself, particularly, for small retail investors like me, who trade with an approach that differs from that of a professional trader.
Thus, you still have to toggle (ALT-TAB) between the regular version and BLINK.
Hence, my point - since there're no "value-added" functionalites that BLINK brings in, compared to the regular version, besides leaving out some essential pre-existing features, then the least that HSL can do, in order to avoid negative product feedback (such as this one
) is allow customers to sample it before they choose to sign-up, alternatively they should put it up as money-back offer after a short period of product-dissatisfaction.
I hope HSL (and others) will wake up to the ways of modern product marketing, sooner or later.
Cheers.
Hemant Charya
Mumbai