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Misappropriation of consumers' money - A scam by Flipkart ? (Part 2)

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Corona Pandemic- Is it a blessing in disguise for Flipkart to deceive Indian Consumers? The first part of the article on the subject was published in this blog on 27th June 2020. The link of the article is given below: http://skvirmani-jagograhak.blogspot.com/2020/06/misappropriation-of-consumers-money.html This post is in continuation to the first part as lot many complaints were being noticed on social media like Tweeter and hence bringing out part 2. Number of complaints were received and due to limitation of the space, and paucity of time could not be included in the original post. The first part of the article had three complaints. The complaint at S.No. 3 of the first part is updated in this part as some development took place.   Addendum to article –Misappropriation of consumer’s money-A financial scam by Flipkart?  Case No. 3 (Revised) ...

Misappropriation of consumers' money - A scam by Flipkart ? (Part 1)

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Flipkart Internet Private Ltd. started its operation in India as e-commerce market place in October, 2007 and as per information available on its website has 80 million products across 80+ categories. It further states having 100 million registered users, 8 million shipments per month, 100 thousands sellers and 21 state-of-the-art warehouses. Despite such an infrastructure as claimed by the company, the consumer complaints specially during Corona Pandemic have been suggesting that the company has been adapting to unethical business practices. Some of the facts as revealed in the analysis are shocking indicating misappropriation of consumer's money and the question arises as whether it is a financial scam? One can find several complaints/feedback/ adverse comments about unethical business practices of M/s. Flipkart in social media like Twitter, Facebook etc. Initially three cases were picked up for study and one thing has been commonly observed in all the three cases is that Fli...