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..."


Monday, October 19, 2015

Vodafone- Vodacare number 199 team intimidating customers ! Their motto- Happy to make customers Unhappy !


It is such an unpleasant experience to even register a complaint at Vodacare's number 199 because they refuse to give you a reference number for it leave alone address it. Most times they even disconnect the calls or keep you waiting so long knowing well that you would be charged for it . What is most frustrating is that every time you have to explain your case from the beginning. There is lack of co-ordination between their various teams and they cover for each other all the time.

I had to talk for so long to convince the Shift Supervisor today to register my complaint against the person Sunder who harassed me tonight. It is my right to demand for a reference number against any complaint or query I put forward ! But he refused to accept that till the time I said that I would post this feedback on social media.

Their latest stance is that whatever may be Vodafone will not apologise and the supervisor wanted to know what evidence I possess to prove that I visited the store with updated documents. I refused to divulge that information completely. He also said that an investigation will not be carried out. Why not ?This is really some sort of gang warfare by them against customers. All this bullying is happening because of the encouragement of the Nodal team who did not do their job in June or now. So the other alternative left for them is to cause deep stress to the customer so that the customer crumbles and gives in. I am not going to be bullied or threatened ! I will stand up for my rights to prove that they are lying all the way.

The entire night I have spent calling them and reading reviews of their services. All customers are fed up of the bad attitude of the Vodafone Customer Service specially towards lady customers. Later I will be posting screenshots of some of the bad reviews. I wonder what kind of people they are hiring to deal with customers.

The supervisor at 199 told me that their customer service team and the Vodafone store said that I was not willing to submit my documents which is so untrue. Time and again I have said that I had already submitted updated documents in June 2015 and even after all the bullying, inconvenience and harassment caused by them,I was and am willing to submit those documents once again on the condition that Vodafone carries out a thorough investigation as to why false information was provided regarding my case or they send me a written apology letter accepting that it was their mistake that they did not update the information on their system that I had submitted the updated documents and they were verified but even then they barred my calls.

But it is clear to me from the mails and conversations that they are too rigid to accept their mistake. Their supervisor Naresh says that while they may agree that I visited the store with the documents but that information has not been updated by people concerned and so based on their evidence in a way they can imply that I did not submit documents which is so absurd ! It is like a Hotel Receptionist failing to find time to update Information of a guest check-in on the computer and later holding that as an alibi that the guest did not check-in at the hotel on that day just because the computer reflects that !

For God's sake Vodafone you think the above is excuse or proof enough to prove that I did not visit the store ! Like I said to the supervisor, if Vodafone Specialised care team and Nodal have made a mistake then they should gracefully accept their mistake instead of uttering a thousand lies to hide one lie. They have to take responsibility for their mistakes before expecting any co-operation from the customer. They have to admit that they reacted impulsively and disconnected my services without an investigation or getting to the root of the matter. Even after co-operating all the way so many years, I am getting this kind of treatment by Vodafone ! 

4 comments:

  1. Vodafone HQs need to take a stand in India to save whatever is left of their ruined image around this side of the globe ! Need to be more selective in hiring staff around here...Please consult your social media pages here and you will know what I mean !

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  2. Well I followed all what you said but at 199 but they refused to connect me to the supervisor and I was told I would get a call back from the Supervisor which never happened and after four hours I called again. Every time they disconnected my call and finally when I talked to the supervisor he too was insensitive and hostile. Well I in all my years of experience with Vodafone, the customer service has been pathetic !

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  3. As advised by Vodafone social media page I called 198 and have communicated my grievance and requested the representative to pass this on to their supervisor. The person concerned was polite and understanding. I have also communicated my expectations if their seniors and Nodal are in the mood to resolve this conflict once and for all. I have requested for a written apology letter from Vodafone or an investigation to be carried out to fix responsibility on people concerned who have caused this harassment and inconvenience to me despite my co-operation in submitting documents, I have also pointed out that they had no right to disrupt my services again. Let's see what happens but I actually don't see anything happening as nobody has contacted me till now ! Last time they took a week to restore the services of my number and that too without an apology or an investigation. In fact the investigation was left incomplete ! As far as their staff is concerned, it seems that they deliberately hire those kind of people who are capable of intimidating and dominate customers.

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  4. Even now they are insisting that I submit my documents again when I have already done so in June this year ! As I told them that I don't mind submitting the documents again but on the condition that they apologise in writing for the inconvenience and harassment caused to me due to their not doing their job rightly the first time ! After all my calls were barred twice ! They are so rigid that they want me to give in first before they even think of sending an apology letter. But I insist - Either Investigation or Apology Letter ! And before that restore my services !

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