| Address: Chandigarh, Chandigarh |
Being working for a newspaper, I have been receiving compaints for various issues like jacked prices to show lucrative offers, product advertised by splash of full pages and even double spreads in prestigious newspapers to gain eyeballs which were absent and drained from site before the papers reached the customers. Delivery and moneyback issues. Well after all that hoopla going, I decided to do a ground check. I simply ordered an battery for my cell phone. The Samsung battery I ordered was well below the available market price when I did a simple market survey, They promised me a couple of days delivery and WOW the product reached well before committed date. Excellent logistics and tracking methods deployed. Mails n sms kept popping all the time to keep me informed for tracking my product. The cash on delivery method adopted by them gave me little doubts about any embezzlement. Just as my journalistic queried mind demanded, I asked a few questions to the delivery man who came in a commercial tempo filled with products, about the number of packets he normally delivered daily. The figures he told his logistics company managed were an eye opener. The company deploys approx 120 plus persons for supply management for the twin city of Chandigarh and Mohali (which nestles approximately 25 lakh people), delivering approx staggering 5000 parcels per day. He was buoyant about the galloping increase in numbers, more so of the fact that recently acquired myntra deliveries are excluding these numbers. Well this translates to one in 500 person in buying a product daily in this advanced cities.
But once I opened the packet, I found that there was no bill attached and the samsung battery just wraped in a bubble sheet without any samsung packing. I wondered if all is well. I took of my existing battery from phone and after fully charging the new battery i found out that it drained the last 40% of its charge in less than 20 minutes of non use (something which my so called obsolete battery did in 5-6 hours). I repeated the charging-discharging process a couple of times, but with no different result. I went to the nearby samsung service shop, but they told me that the products sold by these sites are not covered under any guarantees or warranties. He could not even certify if the product was a genuine samsung product and more so even if the product was new and might be a product taken out from some old obselete phone.
After carefully examining the plastic bag in which this product came (wonder if these are banned), I saw a mention that this is from some Harjeet Kaur of Delhi (not from Flipkart). It does not even have any Sales tax or any other mandatory detail. Flipkart logo is there on the cover.
Well dozens of Questions flashed my mind. Are the products as sold by flipkart (or all these kind of companies) genuine? Are the prices and discounts genuine? Is the Goverment getting its dues? Is the customer taken for a ride? Are the regulations adequate?
Any answers...?
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Aug 14, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved