UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES OF NAAPTOL

Before starting with NAAPTOL unethical business practices
let's just have an eye over the meaning of Unethical business practices.

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Unethical behaviour in business refers to actions that fall in rise to acceptable standards of business practices.There are many ways that businesses engage in unethical conduct , exploiting there customers , workers and even the public at large.
Few examples of unethical business practices are : Exploiting workers , tax loopholes , dumping toxins , etc

NAAPTOL

Naaptol is a company that operates an online shopping portal.The company provides a virtual comparison based 

e-commerce platform for shoppers and sellers.It offers products from multiple categories,including consumer electronics,apparel,and jewellery. The  total funding of Naaptol is $121.2 million and its revenue is Rs.6.3 billion.

NAAPTOL UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

Online shopping has finally caught up in India this is because of Flipkart , Amazon, ebay.com, etc. While most of them are committed towards consumer satisfaction, there are few online shopping websites which are present to exploit the consumers. After the research and talking to customers we found Naaptol to be one such company.

Naaptol is famous for running its ads on popular tv and they advertise products and claim to give them at cheaper price than available in the market.

Case1:-

This is the Waterproof Alminium Wallet. The MRP of this wallet is 2,999 INR on Naaptol. One of the customer searched it's price on other online website and it costed not more than 200 INR. It's highly unethical and unfair means of marketing ang against law too.

Case2:-This case is about malfunctioned product of Naaptol, supporting with the feedback of customer. This case was published on November,2011. Given more than enough proof to burst the unfair pricing.

The real invoice uploaded by actual customer, it clearly shows the fraud of Naaptol, check the difference between the actual price of the product that is 915 INR , invoice of Naaptol 2499+shipping charges 299=2798 INR , 1883 is the sum total amount that Naaptol earned as profit .

Detail study : Apart from high price , the product was shipped malfunctioned , which caused the buyer very injurious accident. The product ruined the buyer's left eye, while operating the product.

Case3:Recently,Naaptol has started fake lucky draw where first ask the customer to pay for scratch a card  and it's registration fee also and later on denies to give the scratched product later on.

From the above three cases, we can conclude that Naaptol has always shown the ads of product at cheaper price but never spoke about the product being sold for double MRP. Naaptol has always been trolled by customers for selling of fake products but still it goes on gaining profit because of marketing strategies . The cost it incurs on publishing advertisements is regained by the high cost selling of product to customers .

Even after all these wrong practices , selling poor quality products there is not a single negative comment on the official website of Naaptol . The actual reason behind the success of Naaptol in India is illiteracy of people  and convincing advertising power leads the company gain more than 35% of its revenue from India . 

At the end, I would like to add some tweets:

Suggestions:1-Use trusted websites for online shopping.

2-Always take action for the fake product.

3-Always check the reviews before purchasing any product from any online website.

4-Always prefer using COD rather than paying online through debit/credit card or net banking.

5-Always check the product once you receive it and then do the payment.

Conclusion: According to my research, I would never suggest to use Naaptol for online shopping. And not to trust or entertain or influence by the convincing power of advertisements. These are once which boomed against Naaptol. And also Government should take strict actions and give right justice to the suffered customers.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING -BURNING ISSUE

Before knowing whether human human trafficking is ethical or unethical. Let us put an eye on what is it.

What is Human Trafficking?

Trafficking is a global justice problem that has negative impact on the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people. It's an crime against humanity and unethical business practice for earning money. In this,usually poor  boys,girls and even small children and adults are kidnapped to sell them in a market for using them as sexual slavery, labor and sexual exploitation. They are also forced for extraction of their organs and tissues,including surrogacy and ova removal.

Sex trafficking is one of the biggest criminal businesses in the world. In 2012, the International Labor Organization reported 20.9 million people subjected to labor  and in 2016,25 million people were subjected to labor.

Now,let's talk about the facts of human trafficking:-

1-It involves transporting someone into a situation of exploitation.It also includes forced labor,marriage,prostitution,and organ removal.

2-Internationally,20-40 million people are involved in modern slavery.Some of the cases, are undetected that United Nations refer to as"the hidden figure of crime".

3-It is also estimated that only 0.4% of the cases are identified,rest go undetected.

4-It earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers and $99 billion for commercial sexual exploitation.

5-Globally,71% of enslaved people are women and girls and 29% are boys.

Causes of Human Trafficking:-

1-Poverty:-The main reason for it is poverty which drive parents to sell their children or other family family members for slavery.People who are poor are targeted more by traffickers,who offer them to earn money.

2-Lack of education:-The decreased knowledge and decreased work opportunities can also cause great vulnerability for human trafficking.

3-The main causes of human trafficking are complex and interlinked,which include economic,social and political factors. 

4-The other factors are weak government,lack of human rights,corruption,civil unrest,lack of access to jobs or education,family disruption,etc.

5-The foremost reason can be demand for sex and cheap labor which helps people to fulfill their physical needs and produce products at cheap labor price but sell them at higher price.

Suggestions to stop Human Trafficking:-

1-Police should be alert for import and export of goods so that there is no exchange of humans in drums.

2-Proper documentation of body part donation is must,with police verification.

3-No child labor must be allowed.

4-Encouragement of girls towards education.

5-Human trafficking must be included in secondary education.

6-Prostitution must be legal in our country.

7-Dowry system must be banned.

8-Sex determination before birth of child should be banned.