I had ordered a Diwali gift hamper (Malpani Designer Peacock Thali with cadbury celebration chocolate N Silver coin) 15 quantity on 15th Oct.for my office colleagues. It had a guaranteed delivery date of 17th Oct, which was also our last working day before my team headed for a 4 days leave. All was well till 17th morning when i received a text message stating that my order will be today with a number to call of the delivery agent. Since this was an important order and had to be given to the team the same day. I tried calling the delivery agent number since morning, unfortunately he didn't answer the call, i assumed it was too early in the day and hence made further attempts at 11:30 & 14:00 hrs, both the occasions the number was not answered. Assuming something was not going as expected, I kept calling the number back to back, till the person answered the call to state that it was a wrong number. I immediately called Amazon customer care number at 14:15 hrs but the lady who answered the call didn't help, she had no track of where was the packet or had any intentions to help, she only asked me to wait till order gets delivered.
Since I didn’t get any packet till 17:45hrs, I called back the customer care number once again and got in touch with a gentlemen who tried to help, but he couldn’t do much since I assume it was too late, just when I was talking to him, I got a text message from Amazon stating my order could not be delivered since I was not contactable and a reattempt will be made next working day. I informed this to the representative who told me that it is not possible since the status in the system still shows that it is under delivery. He assured me, I will get the packet by 18:00hrs failing which I can call back. Since I didn’t get my order delivered till 18:25 hrs, I called back, all 4 attempts I was not able to reach the number.
I had extremely bad experience and cannot describe how important it was to get the delivery on the same day and give out the gifts to my team, I wanted them to use the silver coin during their Laxmi puja. I had set expectations with my team that there was something in store for them but couldn’t keep up to my promise due to the extremely bad logistic planning and execution of Amazon. I had recently become a prime member and if you see my shopping history, I was getting warm towards the brand and had ordered 23 different products since Sep’17.
Trust in the brand is built over a period of time and it is easy to lose creditability with one bad experience, but my concern is with the way Amazon team managed the situation since they knew the experience was getting sour. After multiple calls to Amazon no one bothers to call back and check or escalate and help. People in the call centre don’t have the correct tracking of the order, no one has a clue of the delivery status or phone number of the agent, no one offers to conference with the agent/delivery boy and help. Amazon is a logistic company and such glaring opportunity in the logistics makes me wonder if the brand is worth the trust for extremely sensitive and important products.
Failure of this extremely sensitive order has taught me a lesson and I will not trust Amazon for ordering important, expensive and sensitive products ever.
Pradeep Rao
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Amazon India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.