Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (HB)
Udupi, Jul 15: In yet another case of its kind in Udupi, a person who purchased a mobile phone from an online shopping website was delivered a stone instead.
Dr Savio D'Souza, a resident of Shankerapura, had placed an order on Snapdeal for a Micromax Canvas Hotknot A99 8 GB phone worth Rs 6,350 including tax. He placed a prepaid order.
As Snapdeal has no office in Udupi, the parcel was delivered by FedEx courier on Tuesday July 14.
However, on opening the parcel, Dr Savio D'Souza found to his utter shock that instead of the mobile phone he had ordered, there was a stone in its place, of a weight equivalent to that of the phone.
When contacted, the FedEx officials said that they could not take responsibility for the incident as they have no scanning facility in their Udupi office and their job was to only deliver the product. They also asked Dr Savio to contact Snapdeal about it.
As Dr Savio works in KMC and has a busy schedule, he has been unable to file a complaint yet.
This is not the first time such incidents are being reported in Udupi. In at least two such cases earlier, customers who ordered products from Flipkart online shopping received stones instead of the actual products.