indiatimes shopping! cheating?
Today accidentally I came upon this page in Indiatimes shopping and was shocked to see the contents. (Clcick to enlarge) The laptop shown in the pa...
Today accidentally I came upon this page in Indiatimes shopping and was shocked to see the contents. (Clcick to enlarge)
The laptop shown in the page is Compaq presario v3225au model. I bought this laptop about 5 months back. And running Ubuntu and XP successfully. I was shocked to see the price. The page says
MRP : Rs 53,900
You Save : Rs 17,000
Price Now : Rs 36,290
I bought this laptop for 35,000. This amount includes 2500 additional cost for 512 MB RAM. The above is nothing but CHEATING.
This laptop is no longer available from HP. They are selling it for Rs.3790 more than the normal price and claim we save 17,000.
I checked some other products in their site and same is the case with most of the items. They are selling a HTC phone for 16,000 (They called it reduced price) where as it costs only 14,000+ in the market. There are many other websites like these. www.wowdeals.co.in is another website which claims to sell products at discounted rate. Lets have a look at those.
Sonyericsson K750i : Price : 9000+ and You save : 12,000+
Sonyericsson W810i : Price : 12,000+ and you save 16,000+
They call these GREAT BRANDS GREAT DEALS. I think these websites should be shutdown. What do you say?
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I think these sites are only platforms and the products come from dealers
offline much like ebay.
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I
agree Anand…. Buts its the responsibility of indiatimes to check for quality!
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the best option is to have
some authority on internet who can shut down these types of sites.
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I ordered for one item and its long time i
have NOT received. I paid full AMOUNT THROUGH MY CREDIT CARD. Now how i need to contact
Indiatimes on this. Do any one of guys know there Phone/Cell number. even Email Address
will do…Thanx…..
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The products sold through indiatimes shopping are mostly done through those
third rated stores which you can find at many places where they sell pirated and duplicate
or chinese stuff and i have had very bad experiences with Indiatimes shopping many times
due to this and i have stopped buying electronic items through them.
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It seems that they have been doing well planned and intentional fraud by
aggressively promoting their 50% cash back offer which the customer never gets in
reality.
I had purchased Rs 5000/worth goods but I have never received any cash back
Gift coupan.
I have placed complete detail with specific detail on mouthshut.com
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I wanted to send 3 cakes to 3 different families in
Delhi for Christmas. I purchased the cakes on indiatimesshopping and each time i would get
a message stating insufficient payment. Only to realize after 11 tries that they charged
me RS 757 each time. Now when i called them they refused to refund my money back. they are
saying they will give me giftcards that i have no use for. any reputable company would
accept their mistake and refund the money in a case like this. it was a technical issue
with their own site. why should i loose 8300 rupees for 3 cakes that was never
delivered?
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@Shaji .. Thats very sad to hear! Its completely unfair. Why dont you raise a complaint
in consumer court?
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rel="nofollow">@shoban
well, since i was going nowhere with them either through
the phone or email, i made the smart decision to despute all the charges through my credit
card company. i received all + finance charges back. well it would have been nice if they
returned my money back. what they lost, they will never get back which is me and many
others like me. will NEVER shop again at indiatimes shopping..!!!!!
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We deeply regret the inconvenience that may have been caused to our customers.
It is our constant endeavour to offer best of customer services. For any query/complaint/
suggestions,
please contact us at our e-mail ID – customerservice@indiatimes.co.in
or at escalations@indiatimes.co.in
Best Regards
Sajad Hussain
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Furious Customer Reply:
January 24th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Mails to your mail ID – customerservice@indiatimes.co.in simply get returned. So much for Customer service by the Masters of On-line Duping.
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Indiatimes shopping is
the open cheating house i had seen in india. I ordered for a telescope about two months
back, they didn’t deliver as saying non serviceble area and they didn’t refund my money
till now. i wrote many times but nobody listening. All consumers be care not to buy
anything from indiatimes shopping.
manjunath
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indiatimes shopping is rated as most cheating site in india. it should be
closed. indiatimes is a site which is No 1 fraud site as per BT review.
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Well i bought many
Products from Indiatimes and i have to say is they rock i always got my product in time
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Sajal Samanta Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Well
Zeeshan,
I’m confident you are the only one(believe me only one) to be lucky from
these cheaters.
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i have not received any
response to my previous email.
31st october 2009 sent on
hello,
i had ordered
one mobile phone from advertisement in times of india newspaper dated 25 oct 2009 , i have
paid full amount by credit card over the phone. some details are given below
::
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date of order: 25 oct 2009
amount paid: Rs. 3149 /- ( Rs. 2999 + Rs. 150 ) via credit
card over the phone
ref. no: 200910250957194
agent (who took order on phone) :
himanshu @ 09910118888
phone specification : dual sim touch screen mobile.
received
on 30 oct 2009 via courier TNT
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Now,
the problem is that there are two batteries given along with this phone.
BUT,
1.
one battery is totally dead and not working . even charging can not be done wth this
battery and phone is completely dead if i attach this battery.
2. second battery is
little bit working , only it acts to start the phone and within 5 – 10 minutes phone gets
off.
WE have re-charged and checked both the batteries and tried every necessary steps
in checking that. WE have found that both batteries are not working and spoiled.
i want
you to replace these batteries as soon as possible, so that i can start my
cellphone.
Also IMEI number is not mentioned in the phone , so is it against the
government law ??
kindly reply asap…
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31st october 2009 sent
on
hello,
i had ordered one mobile phone from advertisement in times of india
newspaper dated 25 oct 2009 , i have paid full amount by credit card over the phone. some
details are given below
::
——————————————————————————–
date of order: 25 oct 2009
amount paid: Rs. 3149 /- ( Rs. 2999 + Rs. 150 ) via credit
card over the phone
ref. no: 200910250957194
agent (who took order on phone) :
himanshu @ 09910118888
phone specification : dual sim touch screen mobile.
received
on 30 oct 2009 via courier TNT
——————————————————————————–
Now,
the problem is that there are two batteries given along with this phone.
BUT,
1.
one battery is totally dead and not working . even charging can not be done wth this
battery and phone is completely dead if i attach this battery.
2. second battery is
little bit working , only it acts to start the phone and within 5 – 10 minutes phone gets
off.
WE have re-charged and checked both the batteries and tried every necessary steps
in checking that. WE have found that both batteries are not working and spoiled.
i want
you to replace these batteries as soon as possible, so that i can start my
cellphone.
Also IMEI number is not mentioned in the phone , so is it against the
government law ??
kindly reply asap…
–*–
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Beware Indiatimes
Shopping & Times Of India-Cheater & Fraud – Big Shame
I booked my order for
Impact Machine with 24Pcs Tool Kit & 13Pcs Drill Bits through Indiatimes
shopping.
My order No Was 200910291151-413
I feel very bed when i received
Order delivery there are missing items which India times shopping agreed to send while
taking order.
i don’t know why this big Brand Times of India is doing this
cheating ?
i received in box is Impact Machine With 24Pcs Tool Kit
only.
there is no 13Pcs Drill Bits and Free Indiatimes GC of Rs.500/-.
I
tried to contact around 10 times on phone they are not responding and every time keeping
my call on hold when i am asking about missing items.
Beware Indiatimes Shopping
& Times Of India-Cheater & Fraud – Big Shame
Thanks & Regards
,
Rajeev Kumar
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A Well disguised fraud operating under name of Times Group. Customers Beware.They sell
substandard item, Emails sent to customer care bounce back, and reply comes from different
email id with no telephone no. Queries are replied vaguely, Customer care no never
attended and ur made to wait for ever. If u pay anything forget the money unless ur damn
lucky.
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A well disguised fraud under name of Times Group. Items sold are of substandard as well
as short in quantity. No reply from customer care email and mail bounces back. Reply will
be received from different email address with vague reply skirting the issue and giving no
contact details. Customer care telephone number is never attended. BEware and never shop
here
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I ordered for a car cd
player they said they will deliver in 13 days, but no delivery even after 22 days. Adv
said pay by cheque on delivery then I got a call for cheque collection the lady said we
are the cheque collection agency and the product will be delivered after 15 days. This is
rediculious. I have decided not to buy from them after reading all your experiences.
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India times shopping is
a matherchod company, and the main matherchods are the times group who launch their own
ads in their own fucking papers.
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Not only website, even
advertisements in print media are fraud several times.
I bought a laptop charger
from Maars Computers in Gurgaon after reading a newspaper ad 4 months back. I was very
hapy initially because he gave me 6 months GUARANTEE (I have the bill with details
mentioned) and gave home delivery for that. However, I was mistaken. That charger did not
work just after 7 days. Since then, I am calling him again and again. Wasted on phone
calls more amount than the price of charger. But he is not replacing it. He definitely
cheated. Later on, I bought the charger from sector 14 at half the price with the same
warranty.
I advice you all to be aware of such shops and be careful while buying any
items from local shops
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I had returned the sigmatel mobile. Till now no refund order. If trying phone no. it says this is not a valid number. It is correct India shopping are big cheaters
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Recently they have started spamming corporate mail boxes with shopping offers from promogifts@indiatimes.com . They have a unsubscribe link at the bottom and it is not effective.
Everybody should inform Cyber Cell regarding cheating by Indiatimes and it should be published in local newspapers.
A WHOIS lookup displays Manish Jain, as the domain owner and address as:
I world tower
Dlf phase V, opp golf course sector road,
Gurgaon
Haryana,122002
Phone:01244187000
Nobody is properly responding to calls and does not know who Manish Jain is. I am planning to inform the Internet Registrars about this and their spamming activities.
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Kallappa Reply:
August 31st, 2010 at 4:00 am
I read in Pune Mirror about the Trouble shooters who is helping in solving public issues.
I have given the info to Pune Trouble shooters. But nothing happened.
They did not even responded for my mail saying will be resolved or not, what further step to be taken to over come these kind of problems.
I think they also have hands with Shopping Indistimes.
The Consumer court should come up to help consumers who is being cheated from the agencies.
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Tx for the feedback, Ill not order on Indiatimes now
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I agree.. I ordered a book from them and it took two months for me to even receive it..
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I agree. I ordered a book from them.. They promised to have it delivered in 15 days. It was at lastt delivered after three months.
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all online selling websites are to make the profit only , the itum like mobile or battery you get in market for 2000 you will be charged 4000 for that,NEVER BUY FROM SUCH SITES,(I WAS SELLER ONCE UPON TIME )
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Hai if any one listing, i was shocked to read the comments above and i thank my stars that i cud save my money from being looted. I had asked for a car combo product now for more than one month, i was told cheque will be collected from your jhome in 48 hours, no one ever came to collect. I enquired twicw within a span of 20 days to my astonoshment each time same reply. Also they are advertising samsung wave for 18460/- that too with a discount but its available in the market for 17300/- What a fraud company, cheating people outright.
Is it really has somthing to with Times of India???? then the that too is fraud giving you nonsense news.
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Shopping India Times is bull shit. They have tie up with all bloody poor dealers like Ojjas Enterprices.
I had purchased Spy Pen Cam thr’ Shopping India Times. They had sent non working pen with non working USB. I had enquired strongly & some how I had asked to return. I said them to pay me back, but they said will be replaced. When I got the new product again same non working condition.
I asked Shopping India times to help. They were showing towards Ojjas Enterprices. If they can not look towards these kind of complaints, why should deal with Ojjas. They should bring them to Consumer court & ban them from the market.
First of all Consumer court should active & remove these kind of shopping sites who are sending non working items.
I request all my friends not to shop anything from Shopping India Times.
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