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With Indian banks making life worse for customers using their credit cards, especially while paying their dues, I am exploring the mechanisms available to make payments for credit cards electronically. After all, if [...]
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Paying credit card from your bank electronically
August 23rd, 2008 · Comments · tech
Tags:banking·credit cards·icici·infinity·RBI·standard chartered
Banks penalizing cash payments for credit cards
August 10th, 2008 · Comments · General
In another ridiculously anti-customer move, banks like ICICI and Standard Chartered are charging Rs. 100 for any cash payments made for credit card dues. This move is ostensibly for reducing footfalls at branches but seems like another revenue stream adding gimmik.
Actually from the look at the note attached with this month’s electronic statement, there are [...]
Tags:banking·consumer rights·credit cards·finance·icici·standard chartered
visabillpay security
June 21st, 2008 · Comments · General
visa bill pay, originally uploaded by Sandip Bhattacharya.
Uh oh. Doesn’t increase confidence too much, does it?
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Crap. You can add billers to the website, but you got to call up customer service to remove them? @#$@#$%
(testing blogging from flickr)
Update: Instead of just griping like me, Balaji went ahead and wrote to Visa Bill Pay. It only [...]
Beware of Visa electron based debit cards
May 11th, 2005 · Comments · General
Take a look at this post by Bhavin Shah talking about how insecure Visa Electron based debit cards (like my ICICI debit card) are. He has learnt this the hard way when HDFC bank refused to entertain any disputes on a fraudulent charging of Rs. 25,000 on his stolen card.
In short,
You are not asked to [...]
eBilling – Hutch doesnt get it yet
August 20th, 2004 · Comments · Uncategorized
It is amazing how some of the so called telecom giants in India still dont get the benefits of Internet. The GSM operators in India still have their nose up in the air.
On one hand, Hutch, Airtel, and others charges about 50 bucks every month for a detailed bill. As a matter of fact, that [...]
