I am convinced that there is actually no voice to the customer when i comes to service.in my opinion and experience, amazon, just like a lot of company's out there has embarked on a “sale minus after sale” strategy. There is no regard for customers anymore and the usp of the company which was it's core strength seema quickly fading away.
Here is my ordeal around a watch that i prepaid an amount of inr 16000 against. Please be noted that i am a prime member and the product qualifies under “guaranteed delivery”.
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I placed a prepaid order for a "casio analog digital men's watch" on october 22 2019 for a consideration of indian rupees 14090 (~usd 200). The order indicated a guaranteed delivery date of october 23.
On the day of expected delivery (October 23), the delivery agent from amazon transportation service reached the address around 12 pm with the packet and called me for the scheduled pickup. To my utter surprise, after tinkering a bit with the application on his mobile phone and the package, which was packed inside a "secure plastic bag", i was told that the delivery would not be possible since the courier service missed adding a "secure bag id" to the package which was vital to the integrity of the package and in absence of which the product cannot be delivered to the customer. He insisted to take the package back to the warehouse, make necessary amends to effect the delivery next day, which i had no choice but to agree to. Immediately following this i spoke with amazon customer care and apprised the agent of the issue. I was assured that the filed would be ironed out immediately to ensure that the delivery happens the next day on october 24. To my surprise yet again i received a notification indicating delivery failure citing customer unavailability as the reason, which is an obvious dlstortion of facts. The same was yet again apprised to customer care.
October 24, i received, on my cell phone, the details of the delivery quite late in the afternoon with mobile number of the delivery agent. To coordinate the delivery, i immediately called the delivery agent in the number provided not knowing that i would be in for another disappointment. I was told by the person on the other end that he was on a leave and amazon team had shared his number incorrectly or maybe some other delivery agent was using his agent profile. My limited understanding suggested that this may not even be in compliance with amazon policies considering the packets entrusted to agents for delivery may at be high value purchases. Regardless, i immediately contacted customer care yet again to enquire the mix-up when i was told that updating the numbers does not fall within the purview of amazon and certain "third - party" was responsible for the same. Interesting enough the same details were updated on my amazon account which conflicts the explanation provided by the customer care. Following this, i noticed delivery agent details updated against my account within an hour of my call. Anyhow i called up the agent who requested me to wait for an hour more for the delivery. Pertinent for me to cite is that amazon policies fix the deadline for delivery at commercial/official addressed at 6 pm latest. It was already 6 30 pm when the delivery agent arrived with the packet. Disappointingly, yet again the agent failed to make the delivery for the exact same issue as day before. I struggled for almost 40 minutes to reach out to customer care delivery agents supervised but to no success. The disgruntled agent, who was concerned of being late to home, finally chose to leave with the packed advising me of cancelling the order as there is now it could be delivered. With no option left, i reached out to the customer care yet again just to be told that i need to wait for another 24 hours before i can hear from a senior team around the issue. The agents i spoke with were uncooperative and mostly unwilling to help while still carrying the audacity to ask for a good feedback after the call. One of the agents i spoke with earlier today came across as outright rude and unjustifiably defensive.
Realising that the delivery being yet again deferred for a future date, i checked the application to see if there was any positive update confirming a future delivery date, albeit i noticed an update informing me that the packet would now be returned to the seller citing rejection of the product by me, which is the opposite of true. Yet again i called the customer care to let them know of the situation. Didn't get much of an assurance though.
Fast forward to october 25th, there was no update for the entire day. No call, no message, no tracking etcetera. I did chose to finally call customer care around 5 to check-in, of course without much hope. The response yet again was no better than as given to me on any of the 14 calls before. I was asked to wait till 29th.
Just to recap, i am a prime customer who has been an avid shopper on amazon for almost 9 years, the product worth 16000 rupees is prepaid, the “guaranteed” delivery date was 23rd, the product could not be delivered because there apparently was some issue with the bag id on the secure bag, product status as of now shows “returning to the seller” since i refused the delivery (A blatant misrepresentations of facts). Long story short, i am suffereing for no fault of mine.
The only silver lining (Pun intended) was that the customer care execute i spoke with around 8 30 pm october 10th acknowleged that all commitments that were given to me were violative of amazon policies and therefore could not be met as the “system” did not allow them to provide remedies as commited by any of the 7 to 8 executives a spoke with in these 3 days
Certainly feels bad to say that i have been an avid shopper on amazon however experiences like these have made me reconsider my faith in amazon which has been my one stop shop for most of my buys in these years. I wish i could place amazon as my last choise after the agonising experience i had with amazon, however amazon would not even be in my hindsight going forward.
No email to any of the following helped.
On top of this all the last executive is spoke with clearly cited that no escalations or emails anywhere in amazon will help as the “system” follows its own system, 😄, whatever that is supposed to mean.
I still had no resolution in sight
Amazon India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.