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
I wanted to change the address but couldnt be done
and there is no response from them even after multiple calls
Really annoying people, Please do not purchase anything from this site again