Nov 07, 2020
Updated by Pka88765 Yesterday (06 November 2020) evening, I got a call from a Flipkart customer support executive, who said that they had some problem with the delivery partner (which I infer to be Ekart Logistics), which has now been resolved, and that the product will be delivered, at my doorstep, within 7 days, i.e. by 13 November 2020. He also said that if I do not want to wait for 7 days, I can cancel this order and order the same product again, and the new order should not be affected by problems hindering the older one.
First of all, the product is right now out of stock for my location. Second, even if I could have placed a fresh order, it would have taken 7-10 days, normally, to reach my home. So, it would not have helped me anyway, considering that the issue with the present order has been resolved, as claimed by the Flipkart customer support executive. Staying with the present order was (and is) the only viable choice that I had (and have).
Today (07 November 2020) afternoon, when I checked the status of my order, it showed "Issue Unresolved" and when I started a chat with the Flipkart bot, it replied that an issue has been raised, which will be resolved by 12 November 2020. So here it goes again, another 5 days extended. I am surprised how these customer support executives can blatantly lie to us every time. I also checked the website of Ekart logistics and it showed the same status that it had for the last 19 days - stuck at Farukhnagar.
Now, regarding ordering anew, it is not me who should be cancelling this order and ordering again. That is the duty of Flipkart, to cancel the old shipment and send a new shipment for delivery.
Nov 09, 2020
Updated by Pka88765 I have received no update on this from Flipkart even till now (09 November 2020, 12:00 noon).
Under these circumstances, if Flipkart isn't able to proceed with moving ahead with the shipment, or does not agree to start a new shipment for me by itself, I have one solution, that Flipkart has to execute:
Flipkart can refund the entire amount that I had paid for the product, and can convert it into "pay on delivery" order. If this happens I can wait for the product, and then pay the same amount when it gets delivered.