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, November 16, 2015

Vodafone's attitude as same as before

16 Nov 2015 — Despite my repeated requests to have only written communication, Nodal office called me only to repeat what they have been saying all along i.e their system says that the updated documents were not received and so they decided to deactivate my number which is absolutely false. I did submit the updated documents but their staff did not update that information on the system. According to them, the store concerned declined to comment. I have reminded them that an investigation has to take place for the truth to be uncovered and a written apology letter has to be sent out to me for wrongfully deactivating my number and causing such great harassment as well without their finding out the facts.My case stands open ! But they gave a false report to the Department of Telecommunications stating that the case has been resolved.

Till date an apology letter had not been sent to me and no action has been taken against those people concerned because of whom my number was wrongfully deactivated ! They never bothered to investigate the matter ! And still Vodafone informs the Department of Telecommunications that they have resolved the matter !?

  November 9th 2015- I received an email from the External Nodal Team Delhi regarding my complaint raised against the DOTEL number.

They had asked me to treat this as an "exception" and had requested me to confirm the nearest Vodafone store so that they could arrange the required number and reactivate the same.

My reply was as following -

"In continuation of my trailing mails on the subject, Your contention that this whole episode was an exception is not legally tenable. This whole sordid episode inflicted by your company on me was professionally a vindictive misdemeanour and mental harassment which continued till date since 19th of Oct. The same had occurred before in June as well.

Despite my best efforts to resolve the issue of restoration of my number wrongfully deactivated by Vodafone, your staff adopted dismissive and threatening approaches to browbeat me. You are therefore requested a written apology letter may kindly be forwarded to me for the financial and mental harassment which was entirely the creation of your staff at the Vodafone Stores,Customer care and Nodal team. 

To start with I expect an apology letter. It seems that your company does not pay attention to educate and brief the staff on how to deal politely and professionally with staff. This had totally ruined my festive season. On receipt of a written apology letter, I shall re- submit the documents which your staff wrongly turned down at the first instance. Otherwise I will keep pursuing this matter till it's logical conclusion."




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