| Address: North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 700056 |
To the Executive Officer,
Sellers Hub, Flipkart
Dear sir\ Madam,
On 10th May 2016 I wrote to you a detailed and long letter to bring home to you that for the last few months, the payments you made to me against the sales of my products, books in my case, caused a heavy damage to my business. Your mode of payments violated every norm of business, infringing upon common sense and justice. For example against a Rs. 150.00 book more often than not, you pay me around Rs. 22. You did not show the least of courtesy to give a reply of my letter. I know fully well that you are not a half-witted fellow. You know publishing a book involves costs of production, royalty to the author, establishment costs and in your case packaging and stationery costs, too. The price of a book is determined by taking all these expenditures into consideration. But to my utter dismay I discovered that for the last few months you have started, in the name of a bogus “ Market Place Fees” deducting a huge amount of money, very often almost 80% of the price of a book. Then you go on deducting service charges. S.B. charges etc., leading at times to a negative value of a book e.g. against the sale of a Rs. 150 book I, instead of getting a single paise, have to give you Rs. 1 or 2 on the contrary. What is the logic? What is the rationale behind this arbitrary, nay, the fraudulent “Settlement”? What appeared to me to be more treacherous is that you started with reasonably fair payments for the first few months of my business with you, only to lure me into the den of a shark hidden behind the façade of the flamboyant name of your big business. As of now, I am not in a mood to accept this gross exploitation and duping lying low.
During the last four months, i.e., from Dec. ’15 to March ’16, I have incurred a loss of Rs.20, 676.00, details of which were placed before you in my previous letter sent to you and which you kept on ignoring, standing, as it were, on the height of your pedestal. Under the circumstances, however, I ask for the total indemnity within 15 days from to-day. And if you fail in this, I will ----
1. Put up a litigation in an appropriate court or forum against your company,
2. organize a Press Conference in New Delhi where my major author Taslima Nasrin will speak to expose the misdeeds of your company.
3. spread the news of your malpractices in social media (Nasrin has lakhs of followers), electronic and print media to alert your prospective sellers.
I deem it my social responsibility to save my fellow citizens. If, on the other, hand, you pay me the compensation, I am ready to resume my business with you basing on terms and conditions agreed upon by both o[censored]s.
Awaiting your quick response.
Flipkart customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.