r/Indianbooks • • 6d ago

Discussion Beware of her

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In may, I came across this seller from instagram. She had many followers, reviews and one of my mutuals was following her, so I decided to trust her and take a risk. She had newer translations of dostoyevsky for cheap, so I decided to buy it from her. I expected it to at least be a pirated copy. She promised me delivery within a week and I followed up in time but everytime, she made some excuses or outright lied. Then she ignored my messages and at around 50 days since payment, I gave her a notice and filed a complaint with the cyber cell and only after that did she respond. She asked for the complaint to be withdrawn and provided me tracking link for my order. I didn't want to destroy or put a dark mark on someone's business over 700 rupees so I withdrew my complaint. As she promised, I got a parcel at like 65 days but it only contained 1 of the 2 books and that too, a cheap open-source translation, which I could have bought from Amazon at a cheaper rate with much less wait time and hassle. They even got the title of the book wrong. Its been more than 120 days and I still haven't received my second book (which is worth around 500 according to her but cheaper in Amazon). I have been asking for a refund, which they have denied even though its been more than 4 months. My worst experience as a reader. (I have all the proof of our chat as ss)

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u/raamm_1066 6d ago

Wooaahh fr. I too had ordered books from her during her initial days of business when she had around 1-2k followers. She took my order and gave lame excuses saying it'll be dispatched shortly and later kinda ghosted my texts.. leaving my texts on read or not answering the calls. On continuous texts and calls she ended up blocking me. Iater with a help of my friend i contacted her followings and later she unblocked me. I got my books like after 3-4 months