| Address: Bathinda, Punjab |
Dear Micromax Team and Consumers'
Best wishes for the New Year and your new ventures.
While wishing you on the New Year, however, I do regret becoming your customer by purchasing the Micromax-Unite-2 phone (A-106), which has caught the fancy of the users recently.
It was purchased on the recommendation of one of my old associate, on December 12-2014 and large scale volume mobile phone seller, who had innocently assured me that the phone worked really well and that his customers, who had purchased this particular model, had reported no problems—major or minor….
To my surprise, the touch screen was not as responsive, and the return button (the back arrow) did not worked some times. The trustworthy Mobile seller assured me that it was not a big issue and the handset was quite ok.
We adjusted ourselves to the new handset and one fine day, in the second week of January 2015 it lost connection with the memory card and beeped, 'do you wish to change the default write-disk'. Whatever I did, to accept the new default write-disk or not, it kept beeping and I had to remove the SD card to sleep, without the annoying sound of cell phone beeping ….
This was just the start of the problems and a chain of events…
The usually helpful mobile-phone-seller, suggested that the phone should be scanned for a VIRUS. He scanned it, found no virus and suggested further that the SD card be formatted to remove all possibilities of a VIRUS, which the anti-virus could have missed…
The same was done, the SD card formatted thoroughly, twice, using one android phone and the other Symbian phone.
Just in case the phone was infected also, the Dealer Suggested, the hand-set should be formatted also and restored to factory data reset…
The same was done and the phone was returned the same evening, with an honest and trustworthy assurance that the hand-set would work fine….
It was not the intention of the hand-set….
After two three days of factory data resetting, formatting of data card and feeling helpless again, the dealer suggested that the hand-set be presented to the MicroMax Service Centre, for necessary repairs, even as the same had not been purchased a month ago….
The hand set was presented to the Uni-Tech Computerised Mobile Service Centre—the official Micromax Bathinda Service providers and it was assured that the same would be returned to us, with all the necessary repairs in four days.
The appointed day never arrived and on January 27th, a visit to the service centre revealed that the hand-set was yet to receive the attention it required.
The "Extremely cordial-and-warm" gentleman pointed out bluntly that the hand-set was yet to be repaired, the touch screen had manufacturing defects—(the needed spare parts have been ordered) and was not sure about what was wrong with the memory card slot. He had no idea whether it was problem of the mishandling, software, VIRUS or the SD card itself had lived its life….
He was "clear-and-sharp" to state that the phone would be repaired in four to five days and was absolutely sure and certain that they could give "no specific date" by the time the hand-set could be repaired.
It was his "absolute-honesty" that the specific-date, by which the phone could be repaired, could not be given even in the next month or even beyond and that I will have to visit (not call and inquire on phone) to check the status of the phone….
And I was wrong when I thought that we lived in 21st century where everyone was busy and we all were doing business to the best of our abilities…
Lo and Behold….the Micromax has a backend team, which calls the customers about the resolution of their problems and I received the same "courtesy-call" from Landline-+[protected] at 04.54.33 Pm, the same day, January 27, 2015. The caller said, "I have called to inquire whether you have received the handset after due repairs or not?" To my answer that I had not received the hand-set and wanted to complain further and If he could please guide me….He very politely-and-bluntly----refused….
I kept wondering, if a tele-caller was not authorized to register my complaint, what is the fun appointing him and calling a large number of already disappointed and irritated customers.
Dear Micromax Team, I had high aspirations from the "Make In India" dream of the PM and had hoped that companies like you would ask your suppliers to at-least start assembling hand-sets in India, if not altogether make-in-India.
I regret that I became your customer, a small one, and suffered financial losses as well as metal agony.
But I am fully content that by sharing my bad-experience with others and particularly people who wish to be Micromax consumers—I can prevent them from being associated with Micromax—so that they learn from my mistake.
Wish you good luck and a gift of my spoiled A-106.
Regards
Pushpesh Kumar
HN-322, Housefed Colony
Dabwali Road, Bathinda
151001
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