I always stand up for what I believe in and what is right even if it means standing alone...In life standing up for your rights is never easy but it is very important to embark on this Long and difficult path to enforce and protect your individual and consumer rights.We all must be aware of our rights.In exercising our rights are we truly free individuals.

I have won many long customer battles against Banks,Phone Companies, Airlines, Electronics Companies etc. I have devoted time and energy to demand positive resolutions for myself and people around me. I hate it when one is denied what every customer has a right to...and that is when I find it important to address it and complain about it. I know it takes time to escalate matters but somehow I prefer to address it no matter what. Having lived in America for sometime, I give a lot of importance to Individual Rights.

It is my nephew who inspired me to write this blog. He felt the importance of his rights and the need to address this subject in a blog very early in age when he was unhappy with the services of a certain Airline. It was then that he suggested that I should write a blog concerning such matters too.

Everyone has certain rights but we are usually not informed about them or do not exercise them. We have a right to be heard...and we must never forget that. There is One Right for All and None should be discriminated. One has the right to question and a right to information. With growing middle class touch 400 million and consumerism, Indian Companies need to become responsive to Consumer complaints and grievances. Ignoring such complaints could lead to big financial losses for the company on consumer complaints being upheld by Consumer Courts.

In this blog, I would like us to share our knowledge about how best to address our complaints effectively as a customer or consumer. It is also important to inform people about the poor customer services provided by reputed brand names. But I would also like to hi-light the names of companies and brands who have co-operated with customers and given positive responses. Please do share your experiences too.

You do not win every battle in life but you learn lessons from it and hopefully live to win it some day. Through this blog ,I would like to inspire people to stand up for their rights and if needed fight for it but the fight for your rights has to be fair and honest. I aim to create a direction and awareness for people who are not given their due rights as an individual first and then as a consumer. There are always solutions and there are way to reach those solutions or alternatives as customers through proper channels.

Whenever you have been able to get your rights heard, you should generously share that knowledge as how best to achieve that so that others could follow that too. Pay it forward ! We should share knowledge and in doing so we will learn more from each other. Alone you can stand up for your rights but with people behind you and with you , there will be more force in it and consumers and customers will not be taken for granted. United we stand in getting value for our hard earned money...United we stand in ensuring we get good customer service.

When there is a will there is a way. When you stand up for your rights and for others , somebody will listen to you sooner or later. Your voice will be heard ! But for that you have to speak out ! Silence can sometimes be mistaken as weakness or indifference. Always know your rights and request for those rights to be implemented but if they are not then demand that justice be served.


Always stand up for your rights...

Consumer Rights Consumer Might !

" Sadaa Haq Aithe Rakh ! "

"Manzil mushkil to Kya... Humhe to us rah par chalna hi hai..."


Thursday, October 22, 2015

Vodafone's Dishonest Business Tones

Vodafone is dishonest in it's dealings with customers. Over the time there have been lots of instances when they have overcharged customers or forced them to pay for services they have not subscribed to.  Vodafone's customer service is misleading and deceptive.  Vodafone often charges customers for services that they have not activated even after assurances that they won't.

Their customer service representatives as well as the Nodal office mislead customers in believing that their complaints will be addressed. But the complaints are actually never addressed at all or the investigations regarding complaints are left incomplete and unresolved.

Every time Vodafone innovates & upgrades it's technology in India, the customers have to suffer as Vodafone simply can't handle the up-gradation smoothly which results in disrupting the services of the numbers of most of their customers but Vodafone masks it's inability to handle upgradation successfully by blaming it on their customers.

Vodafone harasses customers even after the customers submit updated documents regularly on their demand. Instead of questioning their staff who do not update information of a customer even after verification of documents, they impulsively disrupt the services and deactivate the numbers of customers when customers request for a proper investigation or a written apology for the inconvenience and harassment caused. This has happened in my case and so many others.

In my case my number was deactivated because I insisted on an inquiry to take place regarding the inconvenience and stress caused to me by their Customer Care Team and Noida Vodafone shop. The other alternative I had given them was an apology letter to be sent to me for harassing me beyond comprehension even after my co-operation in submitting updated documents in June 2015. I was even willing to co-.operate again but on the condition that an investigation takes place to know why their staff did not update the information on my account after they had verified my documents on the 3rd of June 2015 which resulted in barring of my calls twice and eventually deactivation of my number. I asked them to restore my services and apologise to me to seek my co-operation in submitting documents for the second time but they refused to apologise or investigate ! Further they did not even let me take my number to another company through mobile number portability.

They are too rigid to accept their mistakes and take responsibility for their careless actions. Their staff and customer service representatives are so rude and insensitive. Vodafone as indifferent as it is in it's approach towards customers even allows it's representatives to threaten and harass customers continuously to cover up their lies. As it is in recent times Vodafone Nodal and Appellate seem to be incapable of resolving conflicts fairly and effectively as they blindly support their teams.

I had a Right to Investigation of my matter but Vodafone denied me and others that ! I feel it is very important to address our Rights and that too collectively as customers against Vodafone if that is going to make them listen and not take Indian customers for granted !

 It is absolutely important that we as customers stand up for our rights as customers when our rights are being abused by companies like Vodafone. We must find a way to protect the rights of customers who are wronged  ! Responsibility has to be fixed on them for not doing their job properly or this would be very unfair to any customer dealing with their unpleasantness. The time has arrived that we as customers stand united against such injustice !

United we stand in getting value for our hard earned money...United we stand in ensuring we get good customer service specially in return for our co-operation !

We have a right to be heard irrespective of whether we win or not ! There is One Right for All and None should be discriminated. One has the Right to question and a Right to information. With growing middle class touch 400 million and growing consumerism, Indian and Foreign Companies here need to become responsive to Consumer complaints and grievances. Ignoring such complaints could lead to big financial losses for the company on consumer complaints being upheld by Consumer Courts.











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