Verified Support
Jun 08, 2018
HDFC Bank Customer Care's response Dear Customer,
We wish to inform that the foreclosure charges are applicable as per the terms and conditions of the loan agreement and schedule executed by you at the time of availing the loan. Should you hold any written communication confirming NIL foreclosure for the entire loan tenure, kindly share the same with us for our further investigations in the matter.
-Manoj
HDFC Bank Customer Assistance
Jun 13, 2018
Updated by Rakesh N I can confidently tell you that when the loan agreement was signed, the practice is that the executives who do the documentation only take signatures on the loan agreement without actually telling the customers the terms and conditions of the loan including any charges. I have evidence to prove that as for my home loan, i have a photocopied version of the agreement i signed which is devoid of any written information.
Apparently, the practice is that they get signatures and then fill up the information afterwards and hand to the bank.
This is either a dangerous trend emerging as the underwritten information is never explained to the customer leading to nasty surprises like this at the end of the relationship.
I quite frankly find it outrageous that a bank of this reputation stoops to such low levels squeezing the blood of exiting customers for genuine reasons.
I am having to write this mail because i have put in requests at appropriate places as written above.
I hope this complaint can be taken seriously and remedial measures done for appropriate and fair refund before it gets escalated.
Please do not write back to me saying the loan agreement has the charges mentioned because i can prove with evidence that the customer is asked to blindly sign the documents by your bank executives or dsa executives as may be the case.
If the bank runs an audit of how customer acquisition is done on the ground, they will realise the loophole in the system that i am mentioning.
If they explain these charges, do you think any sane person will accept this and blindly sign and not shop around other financial institutions to get the best deal.