[Resolved]  HDFC Bank Bank Credit Card — Complaint Against HDFC Bank Collection Agent

Address:

Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

Hi,

Please treat this email as a formal notice from me and the penultimate step before going to the court of law against HDFC Bank for mal-practices in the Collection of Credit Card Dues

I understand you must have received lacs of complaints from your customers regarding pesky collection calls. This email also may just go completely ignored by the authorities considering the fact that there is a flaw in our collection system as on date.

Still, I am writing to you today to COMPLAIN against one of your pesky , unruly and insensitive collection agent Vaishnav ([protected])

I have a Titanium International Credit Card # [protected] with HDFC on my name. This is a new card and is yet to complete 1 year. Now owing to some really bad reasons, I haven't been paid completely since June this year and have for obvious reasons faced a lot of difficulties in keeping up with my expenses. It is quite obvious that this problem has shadowed my credit card as well. At present I guess I owe the bank an amount of around 75K and a minimum due of around 5k.

If you see my account, then you will notice that despite these issues, I have tried to make whatever payments I could and live up to the dates - which is a clear indication that I am not trying to run away with this money and have the intent to make the complete payments regularly (including the over limit, finance and late fees). I have been in touch with this above mentioned agent since the beginning of this month and I have been telling him that I have a financial issue up my sleaves and due to the festive season ahead, this month it will be a little tough to organize any payment, however I will still try.

Since then, this person kept calling me regularly and asking for money and I kept telling him that I have not been paid and it will be tough, however I am trying. Once when I did not pick up his call (Because he was calling me repeatedly and I was in my office) this person called up my wife and spoke very rudely to her, which was completely uncalled for and I guess to the best of my knowledge, not as per the laws also, especially for a card in this delinquency stage - when the customer is in touch with the agent, but did not pick up the calls because of his repeated attempts to call up despite of telling him that it is tough to make the payment.

Today when I spoke to him this morning, I told him that I could not arrange the funds and will be able to make the payment only by 1st November 2011, when I get paid. In response this is what he has to say:

- Sumit ji, you are a liar and if you did not want to make the payment then you should have told me in the beginning only
- I am sending your card account to recovery and they will call your wife for money and send people at your place to collect everything you owe the bank
- The bank will not be responsible for anything that happens to you after this (I have taken serious offence to this)
- Sumit ji because of the fact that you are not making the payment of 2k, I am going to get a warning letter from my bank for holding your account for these many days (18 odd days, since the time we are in touch with each other)
- He also said that he does not care if I complain, because if he is already getting one warning letter, then what difference will another letter make
- He bluntly said, that if I cannot even arrange 2k, then what in the world can I do (when I told him that i will complain)

I told him that I will be able to make the payment of 5k on 1st November 2011 before noon - but this person humiliated me like anything, completely expected, but unsolicited behavior!!!

I want to understand, that if I was even ready to share my salary account statement to prove that I have not even been paid completely in the last many months and now that I have changed my job, I am sure I will be paid on 31st of this month still does any law give him the right to humiliate me like this? To threaten me that he knows my wife's number and he wont be responsible for anything that happens from here on?

I am sure of making the payment on 1st and considering this collection stuff, I will try and get rid of your card at the earliest possible day in my life. I am genuinely surrounded by financial problems and still I have been humiliated like this! If anything happens to me, my family or our health because of this, then only and only HDFC Bank will be responsible for this. Any loss to my health, mental state or anything else for that matter will be only HDFC Bank's responsibility!

I am sharing this email on other forums as well to enlighten people about HDFC's such practices. I am highly disappointed!!!

Best Regards
Sumit Saxena
Mobile # +[protected] | Email: [protected]@yahoo.in
Blog: www.sumitkiduniya.blogspot.com