| Address: South Delhi, Delhi |
I bought SONY VAIO in the month of April'2009.
My Laptop was suddenly shut down. I went to the Lajpat Nagar, Service Centre, New Delhi, they recd. my laptop and after 3 days they called me that the set is o.k. I picked up on 31.08.2010. Interestingly they said that there was no problem at all, they once removed the batttery and the set was running. I took the set home. After reaching home it was not starting.
Again around on 3rd Sep September,I took my set to Lajpat Nagar Service Centre, They kept the set and on 07.09.2010, I received a call that my set is ready. After asking that waht was the problem, they said the fan has been replaced, now everything is perfect. I reached home , one day it was working fine but second day it was completely dead again.
Again I called them about the same problem and took the set to Lajpat Nagar on 11.09.2010, the same day in the evening , I received a call from the Service Centre that the Mother Board is faulty and it has to be replaced. According to them, that will cost me around Rs. 15000/-.
I mean, what is this, did I make any crime buying SONY products. It has passed only one year and the Mother Board is gone. I spent around 55000/- for what. Look at your service department and there quality, efficiency. Thay did not trace out the problem 3 times they got paraded and now they are saying somethiong else.
REPLY RECEIVED FROM SONY INDIA:-
The VAIO Model No. VGN-CS24GH, serial no. 7002706, was received for service support at Sony service Centre, vide Job no.[protected] dated 27.08.2010 with symptom “Dead (No power)”. Upon inspection of the set by our engineer, no symptom was observed. The set was kept under observation for 3 days and delivered to you on 01.09.2010.
We have received the set again on 03.09.2010 vide Job No.[protected] with symptom “automatically shut down”. The fan assemble was found defective. The repaired unit was collected by you on 07.09.2010.
The set is recently received on 11.09.2010 vide job no.[protected] with the symptom “Dead (No power)”. Upon inspection it was observed that Motherboard is defective and needs to be replaced, therefore, initial estimate of Rs.15095/- was informed to you on 11.09.2010 which was not approved by you.
I REQUEST THE INDIAN CONSUMER, NOT TO BUY ANY SONY PRODUCTS, BECAUSE ALL THE PRODUCTS ARE MADE IN CHINA, THEY CHARGE PRICE O[censored]S & EUROPE, THE PARTS ARE DEFECTIVE, QUALITY OF THE PRODUCTS ARE VERY BAD, AFTER SALES SERVICE IS HORRIBLE. IT IS NOT THAT SONY, JAPAN NOW. IT IS SONY CHINA, THEY DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER THE QUALITY.
Aug 13, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
Sony is also selling products in India for which they do not stock critical spare parts like hard disks. The attitude appears to be that customers can wait indefinitely. In my case - 24 days as of 26 Feb.
The service center activities appear to be on different systems for different product categories. So if you call the 66006600 number for customer care, you are asked for product category and directed to the specific center.
The customer care number is also notorious for cutting off calls. You get an automated wait for operator voice response, the operator phone rings and then the call ends abruptly. You need an average of 4 attempts to get through each time.
Sony India should pack its bags and leave the country or crawl back to whichever hole they crawled out of in the first instance.