Swiss GOTCHA

What was that expression on his face? After a tiring day of apartment shopping I was left with that hard to answer question. Sujith have decided to pay homage to entire builder fraternity by visiting their sales offices and construction site, on search for an apartment. He wanted to buy an apartment!!! may be he needed a company or a support for in his 3000 K shopping, he asked me to go with him. That’s how I ended up spending most of last weekend roaming in and around Wakad and Aundh. Thanks man for spicing up my otherwise sleepy weekend (not really).



Coming back to the question, what was his expression? On last Sunday, we had already visited two construction sites and we decided to go for the third and last one for the day. “Swiss County” they got a very impressive name and an even more seductive price tag. We have at least seen 100 to 200 bill board ads of the “Swiss County” it read “Get More for less”;

2000 K for a two bed room, hall, and kitchen apartment. Comparing with prices of other apartments “Swiss County” was exceptionally worthy; trust me I am an expert now. No wonder the ads took us to their sales office; we waited for 5 minutes to meet a sales officer. I must tell you their air cooler and ice cold water provided real comfort in the waiting room.



Now I am ready to introduce our hero the sales officer, sadly I don’t know his name. We told him we have seen the advertisement and we are here to enquire. That’s the expression I was talking about, that came to his face when we told him this. Later that night I figured it out, I am calling it a GOTCHA SMILE. He said, that’s the base price and the area is very small compared to other apartments and if we are fortunate enough they will deliver the same earliest by end of next year. Much more than his words, his expression said it all “We Tricked you”. The ready to live apartment costs as much as twice the advertised prices. Our effort to make him explain what base cost meant was futile. It’s high time for bringing more awareness to general public and stringent consumer protection laws. I know blogging this might not solve this issue, however anyone who stumble upon my blog can save petrol expense by avoiding a drive till Swiss County.