Monday, June 6, 2011

Time to Unite against Fraud by "Shop Today" and partners like "CCAvenue" (My first Post).

We all hear about dream offers don’t we? Some people like me, wait for one. Stupidity!!

In December 2010, Christmas and New Year just around the corner, I get a call, a proposal, for a dream holiday for my family. A Shop Today Holiday package”, 3days and 2 nights free stay and meal in any where in India promising a free gift, either an HP mini Laptop or a Sony Home Theater. Said it was a limited promotional offer. Great website http://www.shoptoday.co.in/ , full of dreams and promises….great offer for only Rs.7999/-.

I transferred the amount in two online transactions. Got Email receipts too confirming the payments from CCAvenue” (www.ccavenue.com ), their partners. However, till date I neither got my package, no voucher, no home theatre, no much responses, no one picks up my calls now and my mails gets no reply.

In the Internet if you just Google “Shop Today Complaints” you will find a lot of conned customers who spent thousands, a few in Lakhs.  Lots in online consumer forums as well. A lot of people seeking legal action and their money back.

This is a small/little effort, a forum for to join and share, to highlight this issue so we can decide what can be done about “Shop Today” and partners like “CCAvenue”. Through Blogs and mediums like Facebook and Twitter, let us make people aware about these kinds of Fraudsters. We can also write to Newspapers, electronic media, to companies and government agencies associated with them, national/international, everywhere we can. 

They still have their websites and business fully active, flourishing. Making tall claims and conning people. Who knows if this money goes to wrong hands, maybe a source for terrorists acting against our country? Somehow, I feel that these people are nothing more but Cyber Terrorists and must be brought to justice.

My Mails to Shop Today and CCAvenue.....


Prior to the Email, on the 3rd day after the transaction, I received a call from Shop Today executive reconfirming my address and said that the holiday Kit and ‘Sony Home Theatre’ has already being dispatched and I’ll be receiving it in the next 2 to 3 working days by January 3rd, 2011. …It Never came No more calls or any Mails from them and they were not reachable at all. So, I sent them this Email....

Subject: Package Promised but Not Delivered,No Response. Suspect SHOP TODAY for CHEATING/FRAUD

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, bhargava phukan <bhargavphukan@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Jairash,

This is with regards to the order I had placed towards the holiday package of Rs. 7999/- with order numbers 2354005826  and order # 7110824991  totalling INR 7999.00/- Internet Transfer made on December 27, 2010.

I was assured a gift of SONY Home Theatre as a promotional Offer,and the Travel Package, which was supposed to reach and Home Delivered to my Bangalore address, by 3rd January, 2011. This date was deffered to the 6th January 2010, which I have not received,

This was sold to me by Mr. Asish Singh Chauhan (Ph# 911204234082), and called up by another person a couple of days later saying that it would be delivered by the 6th January, 2111, due to Christmas and New Year rush. I was given your website address and the Customer Service numbers, the same u have on your website, Ph#  0120 - 4347728   and 011 - 45696405.

I have'nt got any call yet and no one contacted me by Email, Phone, or Mails yet. I have been repeatedly calling these numbers a number of times a day. However, now, no one picks the call.
I'm really concerned here and awaiting your response onyour promise on this matter Immediately.

For the record, "Please take this Email seriously as I quote, i will be taking Legal Action for Cheating and Fraud as per our IPC and Indian Cyber Crime and I Banking Law Violations"
(Attaching & Pasting the trail Mails below....The only responses from you)
Regards,

Bhargava P. Phukan.
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The Immediate reaction to this Email led to 'Jairesh' from Shop Today' calling me up after a couple of hours and asked me why did I "CC'd" the mails to "CCAvenue". Also, I received a couple of calls from "CCAvenue"  the same day asking what happened, and it was the end of further communication from 'CCAvenue'. Below is the Email response from "Shop Today"...................

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Jairash Arora <jairash.arora@shoptoday.co.in> wrote:
Dear Mr. Phukan,

As per the conversation I shall confirm you the home theatre brand in a wile and also would make sure tha same is shipped within 24 hours.

Also, thanks for bringing this to my notice, I shall take the required steps to avoid such situation in future.

Thanks,

Jairash.
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Still having my hope, I wrote them this mail…..
From: bhargava phukan <bhargavphukan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Package Promised but Not Delivered,No Response. Suspect SHOP TODAY for CHEATING/FRAUD
To: Jairash Arora <jairash.arora@shoptoday.co.in>
Dear Jairash,

Thank you for getting back to me on this. Very thoughtful and kind of you. I appreciate that.

Though I received a call that the specific product, the SONY Home Theater was already dispatched and was supposed to reach me by the 3rd January, 2011, it was deffered, and I was informed that it will be reaching only by the 6th January, 2011 due to the Christmas and New year Rush. it was on Dec 29th or 30th, was the last Communication I had from Your side. Though I still fail to understand why the calls rings and are still not picked up by the Customer Service, on the Numbers provided.

Please do get back to me on the status.

Regards,

Bhargava P. Phukan.


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That was the last communication I received from 'Shop Today's' Jairesh, and no more concern, nothing from 'CCAvenue'.
Though I wrote a couple of mails, not one they responded to.
Constant trying of the phone in their Customer service number, I got through 1 of their executives. Irony is, he asked me to invest another 8K, then I'll get a HP laptop as well. I asked to speak with Jairesh or the other senior members, but was told that their boses went to Austrailia for a vacation and so they're not rechable. I was told my amount was put on hold and Jairesh will get back to me.I asked them my money back and was told they'll refund it shortly.

That was my last interaction with them. They never replied to my mail, they were never reachable, and they did not refund. Whenever I tried to call 'CCAvenue', as well, I never got to speak with them as they were always busy. Then I stopped trying.





 

My Receipts of the 2 transactions from from CCAvenue.............

(Note: I've deleted my personal Details like Address, IP Number.... from the receipts. The rest are here......)

Mail 1:

Order No.7110824991 from CCAvenue
InboxX

 Reply |orders@ccavenue.com to me
show details 12/27/10
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your order from http://www.shoptoday.co.in/
For your convenience, we have included a copy of your order below.
Please Note :- The charge will appear on your credit card / Account statement as 'ccavenue.com/charge'
If you have a question about your order status, you can contact the seller directly by
e-mail at : jairash.arora@shoptoday.co.in.

ORDER DETAILS:Merchant Site URL : http://www.shoptoday.co.in/
Order Number: 7110824991Order Received: Dec 27, 2010
Total Amount : INR (Indian Rupees) 3999.00
Any VISA ELECTRON Debit Card Holder : Bhargavapratim Phukan
Billing Address : (As entered by the Customer)

(.............................

..............................)
Regards,
CCAvenue Customer Service.


Mail 2:

Order No.2354005826 from CCAvenue
InboxX

 Reply |orders@ccavenue.com to me
show details 12/27/10
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your order from http://www.shoptoday.co.in/
For your convenience, we have included a copy of your order below.
Please Note :- The charge will appear on your credit card / Account statement as 'ccavenue.com/charge'
If you have a question about your order status, you can contact the seller directly by
e-mail at : jairash.arora@shoptoday.co.in.

ORDER DETAILS:Merchant Site URL : http://www.shoptoday.co.in/
Order Number: 2354005826Order Received: Dec 27, 2010
Total Amount : INR (Indian Rupees) 3999.00
Any VISA ELECTRON Debit Card Holder : Bhargavapratim Phukan
Billing Address : (As entered by the Customer)
(.............................

 
..............................)

 

Regards,
CCAvenue Customer Service.

A few links of Consumer Grievances in Indian Online Consumer Forums....

Here are a very few of the Consumer Forum websites where we can find the various Complaints. Though we can add a lot more here and update this little info that I have. These links leads to the various complaints against these companies. It shows the trouble and sufferings people like us are going through…..


I suppose we can connect to a lot of people here. I’m sure everyone of us are saying “Enough is Enough. Its time to act now and stop these thugs”.

Sample Complaints in: http://www.consumercomplaints.in/bycompany/shop-today-a194312.html

Fruad holiday packages
rambheke on Nov 4, 2010
They are fruad online company offering Holiday packages and free gifts..beaware of such kind of offers....they are fraud. there web adddrss is : http://shoptoday.co.in/...

Fake commitments
Sanjay P. on Feb 6, 2011
I, Dr. Dhanykumar Kole would like to rais e complaint against Shop Today (www.shopday.co.in) as they have sent me china make Gift against commitment of Sony Theatre Music System and Samsang make DG Cam.
I have paid Rs. 14,998.00 for holiday package. Neitheer I have availed the same and we are requesting them to refund the same and they are not bothered to revert back. Noone is writting direct mails or contact me. Pls note my booking id with them is 70000016 which is booked on 27th Dec.2010. My mail id is dr.dhanyakumar@gmail.com. Please advise us how we can take action on this case. We are looking help from you.

Use of Abusive language over telecall
I was called from No - 120-4311046 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            120-4311046      end_of_the_skype_highlighting at 1:32 on 12th Feb. I was told about Shop today offer. When i checked Consumer complaint online and confronted and said i do not want this offer Iwas abused on call and said (Phat gayi bahut samajhdar banta hai). I was called by Telecaller by name - Deepak. I want to lodge a complaint against them

Cheated/Misguided
preeti singhi on Feb 7, 2011
Shop Today executed promised me a lot of gift and a holiday package. I have bought 5 packages and paid 26000/-. Inspite of regular follow up, there is nobody to response from the company.

Can anybody guide me which forum I need to approach to get back my money.

Thanks...

Harassment
rahul4u0cool on Mar 10, 2011
I book pakeg for me 2 months back with commitment of once they recv the document with in 48 / 72 hr confrimation of booking details will recv form. threr another holiday mail id.this commitment giving by aditya zhaa the country head.next day he was like already thing is confrim u will recv today till evening all th details on u r mail id.i book this pakeg for somr thing is very spl to me same thing i told them & giving fake commitment every time.i ahve all mails i wrote them & all call records which i made.now this time i will file complat & also going to take leagal action of harasment & spoling my time. There is no response from Shop today people all fake commitment they do not even reply.

FRAUD
consumerofindia on Apr 28, 2011
I got a call at 4.40PM on 10th March 2011 for domestic holiday package from Shop Today.

I immediately said i am not interested,then the executive of shop today said that they are sister concern of Home Shop 18 and today is the 6th anniversary of the company.Hence shop today has selected 31 lucky persons from all over india and i am one of them.He said if you will transfer 8000Rs by 6PM to their ICICI Account then i will get a 10.1"Mini HP Laptop on my doorstep on the 4th day.If i will transfer or deposit the same money tomorrow then i will get a philips home theatre.I have asked certain questions and got conviced that Shop Today seems to be a very genuine company and i transferred 8000Rs thru cheque at 5.30PM in the nearest ICICI Bank,i immediately got sms that 8000Rs is debited from my account I informed Mr Vishal Bhardwaj,Process Manager who has offered me this package that money i have deposited in their account.He assured me that i will get the Mini HP Laptop in 4 days time on my door step.On 11th Mar2011 i got email that they have received Rs3999/-,i immediately informed them that i have transferred Rs8000/- then why they are confirming that they have received Rs3999/- only.Then their executive again sent me a new mail saying that they have received Rs7999/- and my membership ID
is 20000211,now for the laptop which was supposed to come in 4 days time,it never came,after lot of daily followups and mail i got philips hometheatre containing 5 nos speakers on 4th april 2011 with
another membership id 20000183,i informed them about this then they said it is mistake of their despatch dept and they will correct this.But from 4th April2011 to till date on 28.4.11,they never reverted,they never replied to any of my mails.On 22.4.11 at 4.30Pm,their excecutive Mr Rahul Sharma abused me on phone and sent me vulgar obscene sms thru way to sms.com.Mr Vishal Bhardwaj who had sold me this package never ever came on phone.From 10.3.11 to 28.4.11 i talked to following executives of shop today who always given me false assurances.Their Names are Vishal Bhardwaj,Maheshwari Singh Rajput,Rahul Singh,Rahul Sharma,Mahesh,Yogesh Chauhan,Mehul,Richa,Prateek Desai,Amit,Tajendra,Narmada Maheshwari.I had asked these executives about the owner of the shop today,three different executives had given three differenet Owner names as Manoj Pant,Ravikant Mishra and Durgesh Dwivedi.
I have informed about this incident to all my relatives who are living in Delhi and NCR and they are working on the project of SHOP TODAY.
I have informed about this incident to all my relatives who are living in Delhi and NCR and they are working on the project of SHOP TODAY in their North Indian Delhi/Noida Manner.

Fraud by Shop Today Holiday Package
Kartik Sharma on Apr 27, 2011 
Hi,
I have been cheated very badly by a holiday package company name SHOPTODAY http://www.shoptoday.co.in.
They have cheated me and has taken Rs 32000/-(Thirty two thoushand rupees from me).
A person from shoptoday Rakesh Kumar Shukla called me on 19-Apr-2011 and told me that i have won i10.Than i asked him how he said you have been our member since Nov2010 so your name is shortlisted for our i10 draw and in which 3 persons will play and they have to deposit 32000/- in our ICICI Bank A/c Details are
Name of Account:- Shop Today
A/c No :- 033205003406
Neft Code :- ICIC0000332
Brach Address :- West Patel Nagar Delhi
And whose ever will deposit the money first will win a i10, runner up will get a sony vaio laptop and third place will get a 32" LED from samsung.
I cross questioned him than why are you saying i have won i10 if its a contest he said draw is just a eyewash as the other two persons are from mumbai and gujrat and they want to do publicity in NCR so they will make sure i am the winner and give me the i10. Even Rakesh make me talk his senior Virat he also explained the same and said to me you will win i10 and shoptoday people will make sure that you win it.
For duping me they said they created a fake contest and said it to me i will have 30 mins window to transfer the money and even i have to decide on my convenience the time for the contest and they will run the contest in that window and they will make sure other peoples are not able to transfer it in that time.
Finally they succeed to dupe me and i transferred my hard earned money Rs 32000/- through my NEFT my ICICI bank account to there above mentioned ICICI bank account on 20-Apr-2011 at Sharp 13:00.
I transferred the money and called shoptoday no body answered me even i called Rakesh Kumar Shukla on his personal number 9891741499 which he has given to me to win my faith but he keep on disconnecting my phone.
Next day 21-Apr-2011 I called there customer care number called Rakesh from there sales team over there he said i have won a second prize and first prize is won by Saurabh Panenkar from Rajkot.
I said how is it possible so he make me talk to his senior Ashish he said Sir you have won a Sony laptop not a i10 so i said how is it possible when Rakesh and Virat was commiting something else.
So he said to me its your mistake and start abusing me.
And since then i called Rakesh Kumar Shukla and Shop today customer but nobody answered my call.
I have been badly cheated by these guys even i didn't got any Laptop also till now and nobody is answering my call even on there customer care number.
If shoptoday person is right
Can they tell me here who has transferred money into there account on 20-Apr-2011 at 13:00 Hrs Sharp first by there bank statement.
Can they introduce us with Saurabh Panekar who has won a i10 ( No publicity from them of this guy even on there website)
I just say to all persons over here if you ever get a call from person from Shop today just disconnect the call otherwise you will be a victim of fraud and you will lose your money
Shop Today Numbers are :- 0120-4234081,0120-4347728,0120-4311047
Cheat Rakesh Kumar Shukla : - 9891741499
Company Website :- http://www.shoptoday.co.in.
Comapny Address :- Noida and Delhi
BEWARE OF SHOP TODAY HOLIDAY PACKAGE COMPANY.
Thanks & Regards,
Kartik Sharma

Sample complaints in: http://www.grahakseva.com/topic/ccavenue


By Bhargavapratim Phukan against Shop Today And Ccavenue
This is with regards to the order I had placed towards the “shop today” holiday package of rs. 7999/- With order numbers 2354005826 and order # 7110824991 totaling inr 7999.00/- Internet transfer made on december 27, 2010, to “ccavenue” (http:/Www.Ccavenue.Com). I was assured a gift of sony home theatre as a promotional offer, and the travel package, which was supposed to reach and home delivered to my bangalore address, by 3rd january, 2011. This date was differed to the 6th january 2010, which I have never received. I kept calling but no one picked up my calls. Then I wrote ...

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