From: [email-masked] (Subbarao Kambhampati)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 22:02:53 PDT

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>From: [email-masked] (Sagar Naik)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: marrying in the old country [Important Consumer advice included]
Keywords: marriage
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Date: 28 Jun 91 03:37:39 GMT
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In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Subbarao Kambhampati) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (PhD-in-Training) writes:
>

On Mr. Surajit's intention to "import" a piece of equipment from India,
Mr. Subbarao writes:

>Hi Surajit:

[ Non-technical details of Khaitan fan deleted.]

>o The first thing is of course, to check with the girl's previous
                                                          ^^^^^^^^
>  owners as to her correct operating conditions, and the past repair history. 
   ^^^^^^^

Since he wants, I think, to import a brand new one, there is no
"previous owner!" Anyway, why should anyone import a used car?! 

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>o Be sure to check on the return policy. As I told you, in Lakshminarayanarao's
>  case, it was the return policy on the deshi fan that saved him. 

Any deshi "return policy" is very simple.

	"Goods once sold can not be returned."

That is because the owner can't resell returned goods.

>o  And last but not the least, make sure that the girl is not one of
>   those independent types--these have a tendency to get adjusted too
>   darn much (if you get our drift--wink wink)--as various higly respected
>   and objective surveys from Pittsburgh point out. 

That's agood suggestion! Go for the "manual" one instead of the "automatic."

>regards
>Rao
>Consumer Advocate

Sagar