ICICI Bank - A bad experience for many

I had only verbally heard about the bad experiences people are having with ICICI Bank, but this just proves it!

Came across this page (do read it! - opens in a new window) via madman’s page.

I have a account with ICICI bank because its our salary account, and we are kind of forced to use ICICI Bank. And since we have a salary account, we get a decent service. But yes, the credit card department, and the call centre sucks big time. That’s my personal experience.

They put you on hold for 5 to 10 mins. (just imagine listening to the same junk music/tone/adverts continuously), and then there is no guarantee that you will get to speak to someone or your problem would be solved. Infact, today I was put on hold for around 7 mins, and after that the call as abruptly disconnected!. Next time I call the call center, I get to speak to a totally new person, and start from scrap describing the problem. The people at the call center just promise to do things, and nothing actually happens. If it happens, then you are really your luck.

Hope K V Kamath reads this!.

My advice to all - Avoid ICICI as far as possible. Many people predict that the bank would collapse in a few years from now. Have a account with any nationalized bank.

Personally, I have an account with SBI and keep a minimum amount in ICICI.

884 comments | April 27th, 2005 at 10:16pm

Google AdSense in RSS!

Google is adding AdSense to RSS feeds!. That should be good news for many people! :)

More details : Google AdSense in RSS! (Chris Pirillo)

Right now, the program is not yet beta public. Only one site is currently testing this service from google in its RSS Feed.

It seems to work on most of the news aggregrators. I personally tested it over bloglines, and works great.

2 comments | April 27th, 2005 at 03:14pm

Moving on to a new theme

A new theme finally. Liked this theme. Its simple, clear, and not too jazzy.Will add more ‘pages’ in the coming days. This theme is called blix & designed by Sebastian Schmieg

Other updates as such…At home, I managed to screw up one of my hard disk partitions.
Major Impact : Lost my mail archives. Now doing data recovery. Was able to recover some of my mails. But not 100%. Other data lost was not “that” important. Luckily, the partition that I lost was not the primary partition. Anyway. the recovery is still on.

In office, the Catch Them Young (CTY) - 2005 program has started off. CTY is part of the Infosys Extension Program which goes for two weeks. Around 36 students from 10th standard from various schools are attending this program. We cover up some basic concepts of computers, and give them a taste of programming. Its a nice exposure for the students. And… I am coordinating this program. So, was kind of hectic. Now, things have kind of settled down.

6 comments | April 27th, 2005 at 09:42am