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स्किम्स आणि स्कॅम्स...!

ग्राहकांना आकर्षित करण्यासाठी प्रत्येक उत्पादक कंपन्या भुलविणाऱया शब्दांचा वापर करतात। ई सकाळकडे एका वाचकानं त्याला आलेला अनुभव पाठविलाय। तो साऱयांनाच उपयोगाचा ठरेल।

हा मेल जसाचा तसा -

I would like to report a fraud currently going on in Pune on the advertising being posted in the newspaper। Though this may not be a big scam but this creates lot of discomfort for the customer

Here are the details
In Times of India on Friday dated 04-Apr-2008, there was an advertisement for following items
Store Name: e-Store, Baner
Website: www.estoreindia.co.in

Items: 1 GB Pen Drive for Rs 99, USB Optical mouse for Rs 49, Laser Printer for Rs. 1999 and so many ओठेर्स

When I visited the store, I found that all the offers were only after purchase of the laptop। It was so frustatइनg to drive for around 10 Kms to know that this was all fraud and I feel cheated।

When asked to the shopkeeper, he bluntly said that we have mentioned in our ad that "conditions apply"

But I would like to raise this concern that does mentioning "conditions apply" means that you can write anything into the ad। Is it not against the business ethics to be followed।

I will be more than happy if you can investigate this and publish the same in detail in your newspaper so that other does not suffer the same was I have।

My only point is that the advertise should be as accurate as possible and should not be just intended to attract and cheat customers।

I appreciate your help

38 comments:

  1. Anonymous said...
     

    I fully agree with ur distress. i too fell in trap of this useless add for selling tatasky for 999, but the useless estore wala said its on purchase of laptop. Estore and others like this sucks when they fraud such adds in paper with a small * in that. where can we put a legal notice or report such frauds..police is not going to take any actions on this!!
    just boycott these things.

  2. Anonymous said...
     

    Spread this through various blogs and websites. Spread this using mouth publicity. Let's close this shop together.

  3. Anonymous said...
     

    Dont you feel that it is really stupid to run behind cheap offers.
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  5. Anonymous said...
     

    Yes I agree that this should be spread on every blog site so that atleast people will not spend their precious time and money on petrol.
    Evenif advt mentions *condition apply, they need to mention all condition at the bottom of the advt.I think this needs to be done mandatory by consumer society.

  6. Anonymous said...
     

    Stop shopping on the web. Go to a legal, registered shop to buy computer items. Dont buy for less, the pen drive, flash drive, hard drive, CD Head may be damaged or burned. Once you buy it, you cannot return it. So be safe. Pay little more but buy from a registered agency, and probably who has exchange or return policy.

  7. Unknown said...
     

    Yes, I fully agree with you. Such advertisement should be considered as proof for cheating customer and such shops/companies should be pulled to consumer court.
    Recently i also came across such incident. On a famous biscuit pack it was mentioned that " 20% more" When i purchased the pack, i found that the contents of Biscuits were same as usual. When i checked in depth i found that and it was mentioned in fine print on pack that "20% cashuenut content more"

    As this is the practice, our elders have said
    "DISTE TASE NASTE MHANUN JAG FASTE"
    Just dont take this ad seriously.

    Sanjeev Patil Pune

  8. Anonymous said...
     

    I'm fully agree with ur blog. Every one should publisice these matters ... and there should be some rules govern by the consumer court for writing "conditions apply" term.
    Every Add should have limitations for conditions apply. Other wise the people like "E-storeIndia" will fool various people....
    But due to ur efforst now many IT people will not go to that shop anytime.
    thanks for sharing the experience.

  9. Noel said...
     

    I will have to differ from many of you posted here that its cheating. They are doing business and they want to attract customers. They want you to stop by the store and purchase something else too. Thats the typical marketing strategy. If you don't see note like "Conditions Apply" or Sale "upto" 70% then you have started shopping independently just yesterday. Apologies for being blunt but that is the truth from where I see it. You have to judge yourself, is this price too good to be true? If yes, what could be the reason, either its fraud or too cheap to buy (crap dumped by China) Are you interested in any of those? Judge yourself.

    Nowadays in India, everybody want to become rich quickly (by deceiving somebody else) so dishonesty is rampant. Probably, you are also part of it so how can you complaint about such thing? If you talk of honesty, (even educated) people laugh at you and that is the sorry state of our country..

  10. Anonymous said...
     

    100% agree..... I would like to tell all consumers that now its high time, we should start neglecting the ads wich has astrix stating "Conditions Apply".
    Offer has to be straight forward !
    If we show consumer's unity, then no trader will dare to fool us.

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