Sunday, August 31, 2008

Country Club India ltd Membership Scam Fraud costly price

I WOULD LIKE TO WARN EVERYONE TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT MUCH ADVERTISED
COUNTRY CLUB INDIA LTD MEMBERSHIP OFFERS.

See following links

http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Country_Club_-_Bangalore-133302-1.html

http://shashiclub.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/05/01/Country-Club.html

http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/country-club-india-ltd-c4665
9.html

http://www.indiamike.com/india/property-in-india-f105/country-club-membe
rship-get-free-land-scam-t46229/

http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Choosing_a_Tour_Groups-143958-1.html

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/country-club-india-c5978.html


Country Club India ltd is a Fraud company
Country Club India ltd is operating a scam
Country Club India ltd is a Cheater


It has been very surprising that a business called Country Club India
Limited is advertising in unexpected fashion in Leading Newspaper
frontpages and now also on TV channels.

Total advertising campaign looks to be very large and it has all
characteristics of a fraud Scam.

I have seen significant increase in the advertising by this company and
observed several components of Fraud/Scam:

Some important points to consider:

Advertisement expense - Overall advertising is too much and probably
highest in recent months. A luxury club market in India is very limited
and such a larg eamount of advertisign for it is questionable. Front
pages, TV ads are questionable.

Country Club India ltd is a Fraud company
Country Club India ltd is operating a scam
Country Club India ltd is a Cheater


Content - Content of these ads are also questionable.. There are tall
claims, Lucrative looking sentences and little or nothing strong to
substantiate it. Also showing photograph of some Mr. Reddy (mentioned as
CEO) is also questionable. All ads including TV/Print ads have these
photos.. Such photos of CEOs are used only by companies who like to
create extreme trust.. ... i.e. if their product do not have intrensic
value and questionable points.. Then they may like to put across the
confidence of their team/leader to create confusion.. E.g. some people
trust people more then products..

Land offers: Lucrative land offers made actually will alert all
intelligent investors except greedy individuals.. They are basically
trying to take your focus out of their services to Lucrative investment
opportunities.. This means they are not selling services but capturing
you into a scam. Theya re showing you a carrot to sign for membership..

Friends Reference - You will get offers that if you get to sign 2 of
your friends you get additional land or offers.. This is common tricks
of all Scams..


Country Club India ltd is a Fraud company
Country Club India ltd is operating a scam
Country Club India ltd is a Cheater

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

USA Stock Trading for Indians

Recently I read a report in RBI that shows the outward remittances by Indians against the RBI policy that allow individuals to send upto USD20000 per annum out of india. This libralized policy has opened International investment options for Indians.
 
Though report talks more about Indian Investors buying Real Estate in UAE & Malaysia but careful analysis show that more then 50% of the investment was in Equity/Debt instruments (while only 20% in Real Estate). But it seemed that reporters were clueless as what is Equity/Debt Investment and hence did not write much about it.
 
It matched my conclusions and I am happy to know that there are several individuals like me who are investing in foreign equity & debt instruments.. Following points will help you understand it.
 
- Many people believe that India is one of the worlds best investment opportunity and Indian mutual funds, real estate and stocks are good enough for their investment planning. This is wrong and not a long term solution to intelligent investing.
 
- Though India is growing fast and there are lot of investment opportunities but still an international investment plan can give higher and better returns in long term compared to Indian invesment options.
 
- Indians can easily open a Trading account in USA (online Trading companies like ETrade, Zecco, Tradeking, Scottrade etc) and Transfer their money to this account and invest online. USA trading accounts give you worldwide investment opportunities ..you can invest in USA as well as international stocks and funds. e.g. I can have a account in USA and can still invest in Major Indian stocks like Reliance, Infosys... etc.. many good Indian companies are listed in US exchanges. Similarly several thousands of companies form Chains, Russia, Europe and almsot all investment friendly countries are listed in US exchanges..
 
- Such a wide basket of international investment options make the US markets best place to invest and manage your financial assets. Amount of content, analysis, help and tools available for US exchanges is much better then Indian. Actually a person experienced with Indian Trading will find USA Trading more user Friendly , easier and quicker.
 
- I recently opened my US trading account with Zecco Trading (Zecco.com) .. this is not a big player but offer some astonishing features. It allow 10 Trades/orders free (no brokrage) per month. This is enough for a investor like me. So it means absolutely Zero Brokerage Trading in US exchanges... There is nothing comparable to this in India. Secondly Account opening fee is also Zero and documentation is negligable. I just has to courier the application form. in india it normally cost Rs.1000/- , lot of followups, documentation and headaces to open an account.
 
- Next it took me just 2 days to send money to their my trading account from my indian acocunt and can withdraw any time quickly. Normally it take mor etime to clear checks in india. SO tiem to transfer and receive money from USA is faster then check clearance time in India.
 
- Their Trading platform use Ajax and i found it much more easier to use then ICICIdirect.. Order placement and processing is quick. portfolio management, watchlists make it very easy to use. Their Stock analysis tools are something I have never seen in India. they are quite advanced and give very good information.. they also have some more advanced tools but at a fee.
 
- Tax: There is almost no Tax on your Earnings thru US stock trading.. In India you have short term and long term capital gains ttax other then STT and what not... You pay No tax at all or transactions and capital gains. (you ahve to fill a IRA form that declate you as a foreign investor and hence not eligible for USA taxes). There might be minor yearly charges like $30 to $50 mentioned for US citizens as IRA fees but I am not sure if it will apply to me..
 
- Hence overall i do absolutely free online Trading in USA , No Account opening fee, No Brokerage, No Capital Gains Tax, No Income tax ( i think foreign earnings are free form tax in india also)
 
- I prefer to trade in ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) .. Many websites like MSN, yahoo provide detailed comparison of ETFs and many other sites provide investment guidelines.. If you just take Top 10 ETFs in each category and then find your investment targets its simple and easy.. Its just liek investment in Mutual funds but with lower transaction charges and higher liquidity.
 
 
 

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Do Not Call Registry, India is a Success

Recently I heard a news related to some court case where some people claimed that Do Not Call Registry promoted by TRAI (Telecom Regularatory Authority of India)
is a flop and not working.
 
I and few of my friends have been using DO not call registery and we are very happy that the number of calls have significantly dropped. Its not like 100% effective but in India if any new initiative is even 50% effective it shall be considered successful specially to encourage it.
 
Do not Call Registry is 95% success in my case and I think that overall it should be 80% success. henc eit a Huge success and I would like to congratulate TRAI and people who helped it make a success.
 
When it started everyone though that it would be a failure in India where even basic Road traffic rules are not follow, who will be bothered about voice traffic. But I think most of the Tele marketing was happening thru organized Large banks who are folloing the DO Not Call Registry Norms and have asked their Marketing agencies to do so.
 
But I think that as the market grow.. small businesses wills tart using Tele marketing and they may not follow the DO Not call guidelines unless there is strict action on the ground.
 
How to APply for DO not call registery:
 
1- Goto your Mobilephone/landling telecom company website..
2 - Login to your account (or create your account automatically) .. cellphone companeis allow instant creation of the account and linking it with your cellphone..using SMS verification
3 -  Search for Do not call registry form.. fill it up
 
If you do not want to use it online then you can call the service center and check if they allow telephonic registration for the Do not call registry...Else if you visit their service center you can find the forms available...
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

SilverStripe CMS Review

Hi
 
I recently downloaded and installed SilverStrip version 2.2 Content Management System
 
After downlaod and uncompressing into my www folder
 
- I when to isntallation script and had to do few changes like editing PHP.ini and changing permissions of some files and folders
- Then it installed and started quite well and i could edit my home page
 
Problem 1:
 
Website Name in Header: "Your Site name Here"  ... & tagline that appear on the top header... was not editable form the CMS admin interface ..
Very Surprising !!! this is the prime and first think that most CMS allow you to do. There wa sno mention of it in their training material.
In forums i could find some people breaking head like me... then some developer of Silverstripe gave long description as how to add functions in many
files to achieve this... oops I tried and CMS crashed... later i could see a simple comment by other developer to edit one theme file and i could change this.
 
This is big problem it clearly show that its immature CMS
 
Problem 2: i installed blog and forum addons...
The blog crashed... with error.. then again in forums found that some PHP file need editing and has a mistake...I edited and corrected it
THe mistake was very surprising.. it indicated that they only have developers and probbly need some commone CMS users to give them some feedback and test their systems..
 
Problem 3 : Youtube library module i installed nevery worked and i could not even find anything in forums..
 
 
 
Overall though they have used some innovative designs and Layouts to show how to edit file and create list of documents.. its far far from beign a mature CMS.
 
Probably wait for atleast 2-3 major release with atleast few thousand customers using ti for day to day work..
 
Thanks
 

Friday, August 1, 2008

Search Engine Optimizations

 
How to do website Optimizations >
 
- Submit your website to Polular search engines using http://submitshop.com/ 
- Use software like Addweb, WebSEO or iBusinessPromoter...They will help you complete most basic steps..
- Social bookmarking: Atleast get 10 book marks for your home page using different accounts in these sites..
  del.icio.us, digg.com, stumbleupon.com, reedit.com, propeller.com, technorati.com ... also see socialmarker.com, socialposter.com
- Blogs - Create 10 active blogs with atleast 10 articles per blog per month with all keyword tags
- Answers - Post 100 yahoo answers per month , also try other answer websites. or open forums/groups
 
- Get atleast 20 PR3 links, 5 PR4 and 2 PR5 links to your website..
 
 
 
Pradeep Bhatia
MD, BioEnable
Pune, India
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