Thursday, September 25, 2014

Beware of Bimal Satyan and APAC Product Marketeers

This is being posted on the internet to make people aware of our experience with Mr Bimal Satyan and the company he represents, APAC Product Marketeers based in Bangalore, India.

Our experience with Mr Bimal Satyan is that he is an extremely unscrupulous business-man with no business ethics or principles.


Image of Bimal Satyan linked from Facebook

He placed an order with us for renting Electronic Equipment on behalf of his client in Mumbai, exchanged several emails with us and confirmed the order by SMS. When we delivered the equipment to the site, he started making silly excuses and creating reasons to cancel the transaction - this after we had already spent a lot of resources and money to execute the order.

The excuses kept changing one after another, but when he realized that we could not comply with a certain whimsical change of requirement, he stuck with it and cancelled the order, using the words (in Hindi), "Baad mei jaaye maine pehle kya bola tha, abh doosra saaman arrange kar sakte ho?"

Later in the day we realized his game:

One day before the event, Bimal Satyan thought he could get hold of a rental company that would offer him a lower rate on the equipment inspite of discussing the rental (without confirming) with us more than 10 days before the event.

When by 7 pm he could not find an alternative, he hurriedly called us to confirm the order citing that his client had goofed up in not confirming the order on time.

By the next morning he found an alternative rental company with a lower price tag, and to save a few bucks, he conveniently cancelled the order he placed with us, citing one excuse or another.

We do our business without taking any advance and collect the advance on the day of rental when we deliver the equipment because this is convenient for us, logistically. We also trust in the inherent goodness of people to be able to incur costs at our risk. 99% of our orders are successfully and flawlessly executed.

It is only a few thugs like Bimal Satyan and farcical companies like APAC Product Marketeers that he represents that he have these unpleasant and frustrating experiences that makes us sometimes doubt the goodness of people.

Therefore it becomes important that crooks and frauds like Bimal Satyan and companies APAC Product Marketeers are named and shamed, so that others are alerted to their crooked modus operandi.

We suggest all vendors that work with Bimal Satyan and APAC Product Marketeers to work with 100% advance payment ONLY. Without this, you would be unnecessarily risking your transaction.

Here is a link to the information on the company APAC Product Marketeers Pvt Ltd of which Bimal Satyan is a Director - http://companyinfoz.com/company/apac-product-marketeers-private-limited