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Dell India Pvt. Ltd.
Divyashree Greens, Ground Floor, # 12/1, 12/1A,13/1A,Challaghatta Village, Varthur Hobli, Airport Inner Ring Road, Bangalore – 560 071. Karnataka. INDIA
Dear Sir,
Reg: Complaint for breach of Terms & conditions in respect of purchase of
STUDIO 14 (E-VALUE S540807IN8) Laptop from your Company
Worst service by your Customer care and Technical Support
Customer ID - IRIS 2752847
Ref: Service Tag - GYNX3BS
Case number: 2746389
I purchased STUDIO 14 from your company vide your Invoice No. 00303246 dated 08.09.2009 against my order no. 0386311. As per the terms and conditions, the above product is under warranty for 1 year from the date of receipt of laptop i.e. up to September, 2010. The operating system provided by you was Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) and as per the eligibility terms, I was eligible for free upgradation to Windows 7 (64-bit) Home Premium operating system.
I submitted my order no DELLW7U[protected] dated[protected] for supply of free upgradation product - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. In response to my order, I received two DVDs containing the following products from M/s Mentor Media Ltd., with which you tied up for supplying o[censored]pgradation version of Windows 7.
(1) Dell Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant DVD 64 BIT
(2) Operating System Windows 7 Upgrade Option
While upgrading Windows 7, the system asked for removal of Dell Support Centre software, but when I tried for removing the above software, it displayed the message “error in accessing DSC20.MSIâ€.
I contacted Customer Care many times on Toll Free Numbers – [protected], [protected], but, your technical support center suggested different solutions at different times which did not rectify the problem. At last, on 4th January, 2010, I received a call from Mr Nakul Daga (Phone No. [protected]) from your Gurgaon Centre, who advised me to load Windows 7 afresh from DVD supplied by Dell. I loaded Windows 7 Home Premium with DVD supplied by you, but the system asked for Product Key. Mr Nakul Daga advised me to enter Product Key mentioned on back side of DVD cover. Since, the Product Key was not legible, Mr Daga sent me one e-mail, which is containing more than 10 product keys. One of the Product Keys worked and Windows 7 was loaded. Later on, the system started displaying the message to activate Product Key with Microsoft. Whenever, I clicked on activation of Product Key, the response message was that the “ Product Key is invalidâ€. On 11.01.2010, I contacted Mr Mohd Ashram Khan of your Customer Care and technical support Deptt, and narrated the full facts, he assured me to get the problem rectified through some engineer on 11.01.2010 itself. The same day, I received call from Mr Prashant Joshi (Ph No. [protected]) from your Gurgaon Centre, who assured me to send one new DVD for Windows 7 and informed me that with reinstallation of Windows 7 with new DVD, the problem would be rectified. I waited till 14.01.2010, but no DVD was received. Then I contacted, once again, Customer Service / Technical Support on 15.01.2010 at 10:13am.. In response to my complaint, I received a call on 15.01.2010 at 12:40 pm, from Mr Srinivas from your phone no. [protected], he assured me to call back to me on 16.01.2010 between 11:00 am to 1:00 pm and problem will be rectified. Same day, I received one more call from Mr Vishal from phone no +5044 at 4:09 pm, I explained him about my conversation with Mr Srinivas. Mr Vishal assured me full cooperation and rectification of the above problem on 16.01.2010. I was very much sorry to note that no call was received from anyone from your company on 16.01.2010. Then, I made a call once again on 19.01.2010 to Customer Service, who connected my phone to Mr Satyender of your Gurgaon Centre. Mr Satyender told me that since Windows 7 is third party software, Dell cannot do anything in this regard.
Even after, loosing a lot of my precious time / hours and hours, in contacting your Customer Care / Technical Support Centre and narrating the full facts afresh each time, I could not get any assistance from M/s Dell India Pvt Ltd. Since, the problem could not attended to and resolved by you, I had to buy Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit operating system from other vendor for Rs 4000/-.
As you Company has broken the terms and conditions of the purchase, I request you to pay to me Rs 54000/- (Rs Fifty Four Thousands only) towards the cost of Windows 7 Home Premium (Rs 4000/-) and mental harassment faced by me due to deficiency in your service and breach of Warranty term of 1 year.
Your timely response will be highly appreciated by me. You non-action to my complaint may compel me to go to consumer Forum as well as other legal authorities for redressal of my grievances.
Yours faithfully
Date: 29.01.2010
(VIRENDER GUPTA)
H.No. 510, Sector 11
Panchkula – 134112
(Haryana)
Aug 14, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
DELL — Acessories not providing
Hi,I have Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop from Dell. Before my complaint I want to tell you Dell does its business over phone. If you want to purchase any of the dell products you have to call there Bangalore office and over the phone they take order. There is no reseller in any city.
It’s been around 2 years I am using my laptop and now my laptop needs replacement of battery. When I am starting my system it’s asking me to change the batteries as it has reached its end of life.
Regarding this I gave call to Dell customer care 2 month back and they told they don’t have the batteries and will update me as soon as it will come. They have said in one month time they will get the batteries. After waiting for one month I again gave them call and they said they have stopped manufacturing the model and they can not provide the batteries now. They have asked me to purchase any compatible battery from local stores. Just want to highlight in news paper we can see number of laptops are blasting as people use non recommended batteries. I told him clearly that I will go for Dell original batteries only. He said wait for 2 more weeks.
Today when I called these people they have asked me to purchase from Local shop or EBay. When I asked them if you can’t produce the accessories why are you selling the product the customer care person hanged the call. I again called them and spoken with new person. He has the same reply. He said he can’t help me. I told him "Dell is doing business over phone and you are the only contact point for me to dell. Please tell me who can help me". He said we can not do anything about this. He again said its wasting time speaking with me and said already I spent 8 minutes with you. He asked me to go for local shop option. According to him I am wasting his time. When I cleared that I have spent Rs. 50000 for my laptop and this is important for me. I also told him that you are there to resolve the issue and you are there to attend calls how can you ask me to hang-up the call. Then he himself disconnected the line.
This is the extreme point for me. I again called to complain and the call operator transferred the line to sales department and they have said they can not take complain. I don’t know what to do. I can’t use compatible batteries and my system will crash anytime.
I just want to highlight:
Behavior of the customer care was very bad
If dell can’t provide accessories than why it’s cheating customers selling products?
Hope you can help me on this.
Thanks
Nitin Kumar Gupta
Mobile: [protected]
[protected]@gmail.com