{"id":1023677,"date":"2026-07-25T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023677"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:50:07","slug":"iphone-buyer-gets-beard-oil-flipkart-seller-to-pay-rs-1-11-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/iphone-buyer-gets-beard-oil-flipkart-seller-to-pay-rs-1-11-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone buyer gets beard oil; Flipkart, seller to pay Rs 1.11 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer court here has directed Flipkart and the seller to refund over Rs 1.11 lakh to a customer who received beard growth oil instead of the Apple iPhone he had ordered, and to pay Rs 70,000 in compensation and litigation costs. <\/p>\n<p>The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Additional DCF, Mumbai (Suburban), in its order passed earlier this month, held that repeated closure of the customer\u2019s complaints without granting any effective relief amounted to \u201cunfair trade practice\u201d. It noted that the order was placed through the online platform by making the necessary payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer court here has directed Flipkart and the seller to refund over Rs 1.11 lakh to a customer who received beard growth oil instead of the Apple iPhone he had ordered, and to pay Rs 70,000 in compensation and litigation costs. The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Additional DCF, Mumbai (Suburban), in its order passed earlier this month, held that repeated closure of the customer\u2019s complaints without granting any effective relief amounted to \u201cunfair trade practice\u201d. It noted that the order was placed through the online platform by making the necessary payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023699,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023677\/revisions\/1023699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}