| Address: Mumbai City, Maharashtra, 400075 |
This is in connection with my prepaid number - [protected]. On 23 July 2015, I was talking to a Vodafone representative for some other issue and I was told that my tariff plan is Local: 1.67paise/ sec and STD 2.5 paise/ sec. However, since past couple of years, Vodafone has been charging at per minute rate, i.e. 1 Re/ min, without taking into consideration how may seconds I have spoken on calls.
Inspite of my tariff plan being per second basis, Vodafone deducts amount on minute basis. This is utterly ridiculous and unethical.. I was not aware of my plan and when I notice that Vodafone has been looting me all these years by charging I Re, whether I have spoken for 10 seconds or 15 seconds or 1 minute, I wrote to them with a very wrong notion that the company will listen to my grievance and give me a compensation for all overcharging..But I was so wrong!!
When I confronted Vodafone representatives with this, they did not have an answer to this. Infact after being initially confused and clueless, they stuck to their stand of charging me correctly.I also sent a message on 199, to get my plan details in writing from Vodafone. Thereafter, I again confronted the Vodafone appellate nodal centre with the screenshot of the SMS received from the company which stated that the plan is for per second, and not minute basis. I also sent a screenshot with proof that the company was overcharging me as per minute basis. The screenshot showed that I had spoken for 7 sec and was been charged 1 Re adhoc.
Since 23 July 2015, I have written several emails and spoken to several customer care and appellate executives. Firstly the executives are too arrogant. They do not even respond to emails. The recent reply which I got from the nodal centre today was after 3 months!! This is so disgusting.. This is completely unethical and unprofessional and clearly amounts to cheating. This kind o[censored]nethical practice is not expected from a reputed global company like Vodafone.
Vodafone India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.