After all, how many soap bars do we need to buy in order to finally get our 'needed' item delivered? How many? Is there a number, a day, a month or a year when this duping will stop? Will online shopping portals ever take responsibility for what is being delivered??
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Since the advent of online shopping, people have been cutting their chores and basically ordering everything they can with a click. From vegetables to phones, from furniture to electronics - just everything. But maybe it is in the universe or something that phones ordered online never reach?their final destinations.?
A 26-year-old software engineer in the city was in for a rude shock when the e-tailing major Flipkart delivered a detergent bar instead of an iPhone-8 which he had ordered and paid for.?
After he approached the Byculla police in central Mumbai, a case of cheating was registered against Flipkart. Tabrej Mehaboob Nagrali, the complainant, said he had ordered an iPhone-8 on the shopping portal and made the full payment of Rs 55,000. On January 22, he alleges, the package delivered at his house in Panvel in neighbouring Navi Mumbai had a detergent bar inside instead of the premium mobile phone.?
"Nagrali approached us with a complaint yesterday, and an offence of cheating was registered against Flipkart," Avinash Shingte, senior police inspector at the Byculla police station, told PTI.?
A Flipkart spokesman told PTI that the company is conducting an inquiry into the incident.
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This is not a first and now it's really not funny. A mistake this huge cannot just be ignored or worse, repeated over and over again. Clearly, some processes need fixing, and e-commerce websites need to look into it before things spiral out of control.