Dec 01, 2019
Updated by Mukul Dube ADDED ON 12 Nov 2019
From Nokia Mobile Care, on 6 October 2019
This is to confirm that your repair order with number[protected] is registered and you should keep your mobile phone ready to send it for repairs.The designated logistics provider-ECOM will come & pick up your phone for Repair & deliver it back once repaired.
NOBODY CAME FOR THE PHONE. TEN DAYS LATER I GOT THIS MESSAGE:
From Vishal Singh Chouhan, Nokia Mobile Care, on 16 October 2019
In response to your concern regarding Nokia 2.1, as per our telephonic conversation we have requested you to kindly visit the service center they will check your device physically and will assist you for the same.
My response, also on 16 October:
You people mess up a repair job on a phone and then ask its owner, an old man who cannot move well owing to Parkinson's Disease, to take the damn phone to a Service Centre?. Is this what your warranty is worth? And what the hell was the meaning of the message below [see above for their promise of 6 October]?
THERE WAS NO ANSWER.
Also, a man named Ajey Mehta, Vice President India and APAC, HMD Global, did not respond to a message I sent him on WhatsApp.
ADDED ON 28 NOV 2019
Someone named Koushik Kelkar wrote, on 22 Nov 2019, the regrettably common lie that they had tried several times to call on my phone. I said that I seldom leave my home and that the phone showed no missed calls. There was no need to say that it was a lie. He wrote from a @flex.com address. Evidently Nokia repair work is passed on by HMD Global to Flex, a gigantic organism with many tentacles. This Koushik Kelkar said that if I still wanted "online pickup and repair"(have they developed technology so miraculous that physical object could be picked up and repaired on line? I should send them information about the device: model, IMEI, etc. I wrote back immediately with this information. Six days later, no one has come from their "logistics partner".
ADDED ON 01 DEC 2019
There has been no word from Shriman Kelkar or his ''logistics partner''. I think I now understand the game they are playing. I had sent them the Flipkart seller's invoice, which is dated 1.12.2018. It may be that the warranty is for one year and they were waiting so as to avoid repairing the thing for no more money.
This is to confirm that your repair order with number[protected] is registered and you should keep your mobile phone ready to send it for repairs.The designated logistics provider-ECOM will come & pick up your phone for Repair & deliver it back once repaired.
NOBODY CAME FOR THE PHONE. TEN DAYS LATER I GOT THIS MESSAGE:
From Vishal Singh Chouhan, Nokia Mobile Care, on 16 October 2019
In response to your concern regarding Nokia 2.1, as per our telephonic conversation we have requested you to kindly visit the service center they will check your device physically and will assist you for the same.
My response, also on 16 October:
You people mess up a repair job on a phone and then ask its owner, an old man who cannot move well owing to Parkinson's Disease, to take the damn phone to a Service Centre?. Is this what your warranty is worth? And what the hell was the meaning of the message below [see above for their promise of 6 October]?
THERE WAS NO ANSWER.
Also, a man named Ajey Mehta, Vice President India and APAC, HMD Global, did not respond to a message I sent him on WhatsApp.