I booked flight tickets for my onward & return journey from mumbai to bagdogra & return through paytm. Following are the details:
Date of booking: 08 may 2017.
No. Of passengers: 4.
Paytm order id: [protected].
Journey dates:
Onward - 15 aug, 2017 (By indigo);
Return - 20 aug, 2017 (By jet airways, flight no 9w-972).
However, on 1st august jet airways intimated me that due to their operational reasons they cancelled the flight 9w-972 and wanted to route me through a hopping flight whereas my original booking was on a non stop flight.
On 2nd august, while i had a conversation with jet airways customer support, they gave me an option for ticket cancellation with full refund. I opted for that for my return journey. They said the amount (Rs. 23308/-) will be credited back to the travel site from which i booked the ticket. On that same day i intimated the same to paytm. Paytm customer care told me that i will get the (Refund - the cashback i got from that trip) credited to my paytm wallet which was quite logical.
After a certain waiting period, i kept on following up repeatedly with paytm customer care. Following are some of the conversations / updates given by paytm customer care:
On 21/8/2017: i was informed by paytm customer care (By mr. Anshul at around 9.45 pm) that the refund process is already in process and i will get the refund credited to my wallet within 24 hours.
On 22/8/2017: at around 10.10 pm i was told (By mr. Sourav) that the exact refund status could not be tracked, neither they could commit any timeline within which i would get the refund. I was told to call again next day.
On 23/8/2017: at around 8.45 pm i contacted paytm customer care (Talked to mr. Akshay), still no conclusive update.
On 25/8/2017 morning: at around 11 am i was told by mr. Tushar that i will get the refund by the same day evening.
On 25/8/2017: in the evening i was told by mr. Kamran that refund will be credited next day morning by 10 am
On 26/8/2017: till 11:25 am the refund is not yet credited to my paytm wallet.
Every time they are saying your case is being accelerated, it is under process and all these cliche jargons.
I dropped my feedback through the paytm app with reference to the particular order id. I wrote mail to [protected]@one.97.com on 23/8/2017. It bounced. I dropped mail to [protected]@paytm.com on the same day. That had no effect.
I contacted jet airways for the refund status; they said they have initiated the process from their end on 8/8/2017 (Around 1:30 pm). On the other hand paytm arranged a call-back for me to give status from the channel partner for this booking. On getting the call i came to know that easemytrip is the channel partner; they said that they have already initiated the refund process from their end; now it is held up on paytm only.
It's been 24 days since the ticket was cancelled, but i did not get the refund. I do not have any idea how long i have to wait further. Neither i have any idea about its exact status. The experience is really pathetic. Customer care people are simply providing fake baseless promises. I don't know whom to approach and when would i get my money back to my paytm wallet.
A. Chowdhury.
Aug 5, 2021
Complaint marked as Resolved