| Address: Mumbai City, Maharashtra |
To,
Flipkart Customer Service
Flipkart Internet Private Limited,
Ozone Manay Tech Park,
#56/18 & 55/09, 7th Floor,
Garvebhavipalya, Hosur Road,
Bangalore - 560068,
Karnataka, India.
I ordered a Xiaomi Mi 3 on the 22 July 2014 (Order Id: OD[protected]) and it was delivered the next day, i.e, 23 July 2014. However I wasn’t in the city when it reached. Now, on the 27 July 2014, I got a chance to finally open the phone. But I was greeted with a cracked display and a non-functioning touch screen on opening the phone.
Meanwhile I had got to know through a friend that Loop Mobile wasn’t working on their new Mi 3 phone. The friend asked me for a favor by trying to troubleshoot the issue with their phone..with the help of Flipkart customer support. So I called the customer care and gave MY order number (because I didn’t have the friend’s order number) to see what was going on and to ensure that it was not something that was wrong with only that particular phone. However it started working just fine a day or two later.
Now on the 27 July 2014 I register a complaint with Flipkart for this phone with the cracked display. I waited for 3 days until I got a call from a VERY unpleasant customer care guy from Flipkart. Now, what I’m told is that the phone cannot be replaced JUST because I hadn’t stated the fact when I had contacted Flipkart earlier (How am I supposed to state the fact when I hadn’t even opened the phone yet?). He went ahead to subtly imply that I was bluffing about the facts (no offence taken). Then I talked to one of the seniors who said that they’d go through the previous phone records to see if I was actually telling the truth and then they would get back. (Okay. I’m starting to take some offence now).
By now, I’m really annoyed. But I keep my calm and wait for the next day believing that the customer care will actually be able to make at least some sense of the situation here. I got a call today and was told that I should have stated the fact of the phone being cracked when I first contacted Flipkart for the Loop Mobile issue (even though I hadn’t even been able to open my phone and the first call was just for the friend’s phone. I can also provide with their order number if you guys are really so suspicious).
I had not been able to provide the CS with any information regarding the broken phone when I first contacted them. I could not even give them my IMEI. It was just a friend’s phone with Loop Mobile not working on it. I could not even have used my phone with the broken display and the non-functioning touch screen. It is still stuck at the first screen where I’m asked to select the language (but I cant thanks to the broken touch screen).
I wasted a lot of time talking to the customer care executives who were really trying to be the Sherlocks of Flipkart and treating my earlier phone call as the conclusive evidence of me trying to extort from Flipkart, a 14k phone. It was of no help. Instead of helping the customer face the problem, they are simply and VERY CLEARLY trying to deny the customer a rightful replacement of a defective phone. It is extremely sad for a company, which has always been known to be the best in customer satisfaction in ecommerce.
So here I am, with my broken phone, writing this letter with a positive hope that someone will actually understand this situation and help me get a replacement which I VERY CLEARLY deserve. I am not just going to settle with this kind of behavior from you guys.
Just because I gave my order number and not my friend’s in order to seek technical support, you guys are jumping to conclusions and blindly blaming the customer here, which is a totally unprofessional approach for the customer care of a company as big as yours.
I expect a prompt reply to this mail as the matters are no more petty and it is turning out to be a serious issue. And I’d be delighted and happy to be served by your customer care personnel who actually have some sense about how to talk to a customer. If I don't get best possible solution from your end I shall not refrain from taking this matter to the consumer forum and also take it onto the social media as I am left with no other choice.
Thank you.
Jaynish Shah