Avoid at all costs....bad bad bad experience
the site tyreonwheels.com
I was looking to change the wheels/tyres for my car and came across this site. The other site was changemytyres.com which I was looking at and this site seemed to offer a better deal. (cost and variety)
- Placed order on 23rd March requesting fitment on 29th, the website said this is feasible, no order confirmation received on email, no call from customer care to confirm...NOTHING.
- Total cost of 5 Yokohama tyres and 5 X2 alloys came upto 41K INR, with additional 500 INR
- On 27th March, their operations person, Sunil, messages on whatsapp (***!) and says the alloys I ordered are not available. I enquired why the delay in order confirmation letter and that there was ZERO communication from their side right from the time money was paid. His answer was "Sorry but someone should have called you, anyway, now choose which replacement you want"
- Again, no communication after that
- 29th March, I was sitting at home waiting, canceled all my appointments just to accommodate this. Again, I heard nothing from these irresponsible audacious people about my order. Logged into their site and checked my order status, to my horror, the alloys were still IN TRANSIT
- Messaged the guy on whatsapp again, since their customer care line was permanently busy, he says "sorry, we will fit it on Tuesday" - more like a "take it or leave it", and he wanted me to keep myself free on Tuesday
- My question to him was that why I was not informed if there was a delay and that they cannot take my time for granted, he says "alloys were not in Bangalore, had to be shipped"....well, you can ship it from Mars and I don't give a damn, there is a way to talk.
- I tell him fit it on Tuesday to whoever is free and waiting for you, then he stops talking. AWESOME!
- Called customer care and informed of this, same behavior from that guy too, except probably he is lower in the hierarchy and did not show so much of an attitude. But he said the more interesting part "I understand your problem, but we don't work on sunday, so please make time on Tuesday"....wow!
For 7 days from the date of order, all communication regarding delivery was initiated by me because I was concerned about the transaction. Not once I heard from them about the order or the delay and finally this!
These guys are a startup and with such lousy behavior, I doubt they will go too far. First of all, as a customer I felt:
1. Extremely disrespected
2. My time was taken for granted
3. The behavior was extremely unwelcoming, as if, they are doing me favor
4. No sense of understanding of the inconvenience they caused to me
5. The company people were extremely irresponsible, negligent, arrogant and audacious
In an age where even a 300 rupee order on Flipkart is treated with dignity, a transaction for INR 41000 returns this kind of response. And to say, these guys are just starting up.
I tried following up at least 6 times with their Customer care guys, today to get a confirmation on whether or not they can do the fitting today, and got a response that left me shocked "We have moved your date to Tuesday or Wednesday, i hope you understand not to keep following up....someone will inform you"
I suggest that no one deals with these guys and you will only end up feeling frustrated and helpless, because once you have paid, its all theirs to take you for a ride.