Today I realized, I have been scammed!!
I was looking for LG ultragear 24GN650 monitor for my personal use on Indiamart 5th August and it was unavailable at that moment. The next morning, on 6th Aug, I recieved a call from someone claiming he was a Indiamart registered dealer and somehow he has all the info of the monitor that I was looking and I thought he might be the right dealer for it and also he was telling he could deliver this item to me at very low price from the market on 14000 rs. Generally this monitor doesn’t come under 15, 500 even on a very huge sale. So I thought I can buy from him at this price so I placed the order. Everything was going fine, he even sent me updates regularly and told that the shipping would start by Sunday evening. He sent me the bank account of the company who was supplying this monitor and I made the payment of 14000 rs to their account and then I shared him the screenshot of the transaction and he sent me an Invoice for the same.
The Invoice was so looking so legit that you can’t differentiate with original. It provided Gstin, company address and details, proof of warranty. Only thing that was missing was the tracking id and shipping details. This man knows all the loophole of Indiamart and he must have scammed a lot of peoples, I am sure.
He told me that the item will be delivered by Tuesday evening and I waited and then on Tuesday I called him, he told me that the delivery has been delayed and will be delivered on Wednesday. Now, I waited whole day on Wednesday and then I called him multiple times but he didn’t answer even he was online on WhatsApp he was not seeing my text and not answering my calls. Same went on Thursday, he didn’t answer my calls and didn’t respond to my text. So then on Thursday, I called the customer care of Indiamart and told this entire story. They even cross checked his contact number on their portal, but they told that there is no one matching his contact number. Then I realized, it’s a true scam and they told me to write this in email to customercare at indiamart. This morning, I called the scammer again and again and after lot of frustration, I wrote to him angrily on WhatsApp, abused him and then some time later I saw he is online and suddenly he saw all the messages. Then, I phone called him andI told him I am taking strict action on him and writing to Indiamart, then he blatantly said " ha bhai chtiya kaata tera, jo karna hai krle jaa, Indiamart waale bhi kuch ni kr skte mera or ni milega tera monitor or na hi paise".
This is my first time experience with Indiamart and I never ever again looks for a deal apart from amazon and flipkart. After whole day of frustration, tonight I was checking reviews of Indiamart and surprisingly most of the reviewers I saw, wrote same thing about Indiamart. Thiz company is a scam!! Total sht and disappointing!!