Lion Dates Complaints & Reviews

I bought 250g lion dates with batch no. Sd342 from a retailer in order to provide this as a health supplement for myself. I was shocked and furious to find feathers inside the packet when i opened it and at the same time, my was chewing one of the dates from the packets and was about to swallow it. How can an haccp iso 22000:2005 company like lion dates can do this. I am planning to move this matter to consumer court complaining about the feathers and complaining about the accredited certification bodies who has provided haccp iso 22000:2005 status. Please advice.
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I have purchased lion dates batch number: sd76. Most of the dates are having mud on surface of the dates, sand in inner layers of dates. I believed the lion dates would be finely processed and purchased because of the brand, but you people are cheating us with bad quality of products.

I was having diarrhea after taking 5-10 dates yesterday, i believe it because of taking muddy lion dates which is having bacteria in it.

We can clearly see the mud on dates, but i dont know why the fssai is not verifying the batched. Please do require needful.

I brought an lion dates packet on 15 March 2017, and found an insect and we stopped eating it. I think some thing wrong with the quality department in Lion dates company. As I opened to lodge a complaint regarding this, I saw many complaints with the same issue. But why on one is taking action on it?

I mailed them, but no reply from their side. So i am lodging a complaint here

Hi this is chitikel. Praveen i have purchased lion dates there was an offer as buy one get one free on the purchase of lion dates of 500 gms pack.
But later i have realised they have cheated me as the product has been expired how can they sell the expired products with the offers?
It's all they are cheating the customers by giving the offers and it's health hazard to sell the expired dates.

Finally overall bad experience with the lion dates.
On the package they had given the toll free number[protected] for the complaints but there is no response if you call to the given number.
If there is no number to complaint then why do you just give some number that is no response from your end.
Kindly take some action, request higher officials to contact.
This is really a bad experience and worst image on lion dates.
Kindly take action on this.

Regards,
Chitikela. Praveen,
[protected].

There is a fraudulent offer from Lion Dates, whereby if a consumer buys one kg dates packet, he/she gets one kg free. I recently bought one packet under this offer and found that the dates they packed in were of worst quality and had expired. This dubious offer is repeated by Lion Dates regularly, and this poses health hazards to innocent customers.

Dear Sir,

I have placed an order for Lion Dates through their website. But i came to know from courier that the shipper did not mention the contact number of consignee and parcel returned to shipper.
I have been sending reminders to your customer care, but still they have not replied to my email.
Came to know from DTDC courier that you have not mentioned the contact number of the consignee on AWB No. and parcel returned to Shipper.
DTDC Tracking No.C72309515

Request you to do the needful .

Kind Regards,
Salin Kumar

This is Horrible, i found small dead cockroaches in every date..we have not realized until we start consuming along with Milk..we found dead cockraoches floating in glass!!

Sad part, this is our dialy cosumption by Mom and kid. This is unrepairable for us!

Guys, i still preserve ur box and relevant details...before we take up this next level, address this ASAP..

Mail us ummediately

Chandrasekhar.[protected]@gmail.com

I have purchased Lion dates 1+1 offer Arabian dates thro Periandavar super market, velacherry at August month. The product is very worst, i have opened & give to my child found there is unknown assumption of dates in this packet. We dont blame the Shop, we will take action on the Lion dates company. That is normal dates only not arabian dates. Pls take necessary action to this above. Company has cheating the customers & to play in humans life. It is not acceptable.

23rd September I purchased lion dates at nilgiris stores near by me. It was by one get one offer. When I came to home and opened the pouch I found cockroach inside it. Horrible to trust the branded products now a days. As am suffering from typhoid I bought this. But these kind of products doesn't help out the people. Manufacturer please look into the issue seriously.

Lion dates are being sold through innumerable outlets with offers like "Buy one get one free". We find that there are a number of insects in the packets. Now I have seen so many complaints in the same line in this website but the company has not responded and continues to sell the same substandard food product.

What is the point of submitting complaint in this forum if no corrective action is being taken?

Two weeks back i bought lion arabian dates (1*1) from a super market. Expiry date was fyn and i just had one piece and saw a worm in that. Checked another dates and saw worm and it's egg. Plz don't do this to customers especially in food items. Human life values a lot.Instead of spending much money for tv commercials, invest in the quality of your product plz. Dont waster our hard earned money. I will never make a mistake of buying this lion dates product

I have purchased a lion dates bye one get one pack in that I could able to see worms inside the dates. for the first time I did not mind it and next time when my friend said the same issue. The pack is very fresh and also it has not gone beyond expiry date. There is no use in giving offer like buy one get one everyone expect only for the quality. I have noticed and have wrote on your page there are many people and children who unknowingly intakes and it causes some health hazards. May I know what kind of action can be taken for this.

I have purchased lion dates 250g of B.N26oct15/SDM for Rs 85/- from J.K Super Market Puttur on[protected]. It has contains running insect & fungus. So I have retured to same shop and informed to your area representative.

We have buy loin black dates of 250gm at vellore district at K.V.Kuppam after open the box we have seen one honey bee in this box. We have shocked and take some photo and it is repacked in Trichy . Kindly take a action immediately. Regards S. Sathiyaraj B.E., Manager

Sir, recently bought Lion honey "buy get one free", with agmark grade A from reliance. This is not Honey, rather a sugar based mixture look a like of honey. Water insoluble matters percentage for Grade A is 0.5. This honey completely dissolves in water at at even 23 degree Celsius. If this is not honey with bee picture and "Kashmir" labelled on it...what is it? Government at least has the responsibility not to give authentic " good for consumption labels" and alsd the inform the consumer that this product is fake.

When I purchased Lion Dates from Big Bazar, Palakkad with an offer 500Gm free with 500Gm, accidentally I weighed it once. In one packet only half was there (250Gm) and other one was 500Gm. It was two packets of 500Gms pasted together with cello tapes by Company. So we never doubt on such. I couldnt return it to Big Bazar as I already opened it and removed it. But it is highlighted to them, but they mentioned, it is getting as two packets together from Company.

Pls see the attachment. BATCH NO. 16/APRIL'15/ SD101 I'm really disappointed at this event of finding a worm in one of your dates when serving it to my guests! Later we realized that this is a common complaint in your product. Is this the kind of quality you promote?? A call to your toll free number[protected] at 11:45 PM today had no response. I shall send this information to as many as people as possible. -Promod

I brought 250g Lion Dates, Batch and LOT No - SD65, fssai - [protected], but it contains very less dates and contains mud stone, some leaf, dried dates which is completely useless. don't know what type of mud stone and leaf it is. If it leads to any health issue to us then who will responsible? I seriously goes to consumer court for this. I wonder how it gets ISO 9001:2008 certificate which is not at all worthful to it. i have a photograph of it, i will send it to consumer court

I bought lion Arabian dates from future value retail ltd. In that pack dates are infested and also the dung on the seeds. For this I am complaining to you regarding their violations. Below are the details of that pack. (Buy one get one Cost 138rs. 01 Nov 14/SD111.)

Hello, I have been trusting the produce of this company for very long time, as I was brought up from a very close location of this factory in Trichy, Tamilnadu. I have been watching the tremendous growth of this company and customers trust. Also, I have been seeing the same issue (ex: quality degradation) what other similar companies undergo when the scale of the company grows and start failing to keep the trust of the customers; ultimately lose the customer base and struggle to sustain in the market. I have been buying Lion dates since 10 years now, I could see the quality of the product has degraded with time. I stopped buying, Lion dates since 2008 when I noticed bugs in the new packets of Lion Dates. I bought those packs in a kirana shop next to my house, thought its because of the way the packs are stored. I returned the packs and the shopkeeper was wise enough to accept and repay the amount. Later, I realized that could be a frequent case for that shop keeper. Recently, I saw some heavy priced "Delicacy" seedless dates, having thought the quality would have improved with the price. To my surprise, nothing have changed. Still found a bug in that pack too. I was preserving the packs with the bug for sometime to take it to appropriate department to get serious attention from your company. Unfortunately, may or someone have trashed those packs. Still I have captured the video and pictures of the bugs and packs. I'm attaching one of them here, for your kind attention and appropriate actions to strengthen this company's quality processes. Looks like this company believes only on marketing techniques and glossy advertisements to help sustain the sales and position in the market. Recently, whenever I visited any super markets, I could see people opt to buy other dates products instead of Lion Dates, may be they could also be victmized in the past. http://youtu.be/hdTwYKDok2M Note: these video/pictures were take in the month of march 2014. Thank you, Sudhakar