Dear Guppies.
I am new here. I have been regular reader for many many years.
But now I have something to share with you guys. Which is why i have started this topic.
This is the long story about my two outfits that i had ordered from their Karma red collection
First of all, you all have mentioned severel times about how difficult it is to get a hold of karma ppl. Specially for us who are living overseas.
Well finally i got a hold of this lady at Karma, named Nida.
We finalized the outfits and the price for them aswell.
She told me the western union number, i sent her 75% of the amount.
After she recieved them. First of all she totally vanished. I mean there would be gone dayyyys, and i would not have herd a single thing from her.
In my previous mails i kept asking her for her cell number. Which turned out to be a non working cell number.
As i said, it was such such a big difficulty to get a hold of her.
And when she would reply, she would write very little, and she would never answer any of my questions.
In the end after tons of mails, I got an agreement from her, how my outfits would be like, colourwise etc.
We had an agreement on on the neelo outfit, the dupatta would be orange.
And my dupatta would have the outer line sequenced border as on the picture. And smal motifs on the dupatta.
I made sure i got an written mail from her on that, which i did get.
For the anjali outfit, we agreed yet again on the dupatta colour border and etc.
I had asked about the fabrics obviously for the both outfits.
I was told the angali outfit as khaadi rawsilk.
Now after the 75% payment. I did not hear from her in weeks. And i kept calling and mailing her. In the end i got really pissed, and said i would call Mahreen Kardar directly and tell her about the poor service she is giving me.
Then right away she sent me a meassurement form.
After sending it back to her filled. Again she vanished.
I mean this just went on and on. At the end i was really worried that she is going to screw up my outfits.
After one month, i started to write to her again, asking about when my delivery is going to be fine.
After a couple of mails she wrote to me my meassurements are not enough, i need to send it again.
Now i was pissed, couldnt she had asked me about this crap before. I mean after ONE MONTH ?! and i said to her i have filled absolutely the whole damn form, and i have no idea what i could fill out more.
Again, she vanished. errrrrrrr
After AGAINNNNN severel mails, and calls, she wrote just one like send us rest of the money your outfits are ready to be dispatched. I was like WTH ?!
well i sent her rest of the amount.
And i wrote an mail with the money tranfer information etc.
She jus wrote one mail that she will let me know about the tracking number.
And this time this woman dissapeared totally. I was soooooo worried and stressed that maybe i have been scammed or something. I had no idea what was happening. After almost a week and after severel EVIL mails, i got a reply from another karma staff member. That my order is on the way and they gave me my tracking number. My order was in the country but had not been delivered. I called up fed ex gave them my package number. And the woman told me the house number was not correct.
Fine all that got fixed.
My parcel came after the weekend.
And now i with huge exitement opened my package.
And i was SO dissapointed !! I ofcourse understand that in the pictures clothes look different, beecause of graphic manipulation, retouch, blabaa.
But seriously girls, the outfit material was so so so cheap !!!
The neelo outfit, was such a crap material, arrrrgh !! the embroidery was soo loosened, the dhabka works threads were not in palced firmly, the stones were loose, the outfit fabric had loosened threads all over the shirt.
The neckline was not similiar as in the picture.
The colour WAS NOT as we had agreed on. It was this very dull mustard colour. and not even near orange.
And the worst thing, that broke my heart was the dupatta. It had two sequenced line border.
And even worse thing is, the sequence on the shirt, and the dupatta, the sequence colour are all faded off, the gold sequences werent fully gold. I was so dissapointed man. There is this a bit thick piping of the dull mustard colour, which is very very un evenly sewn. You can see it on the side on the hemline, that they are both very uneven. Overall i swear you guys, the embroidery looks so cheap man, that i could had gotten a karighar from karachi to get it done very elegantly, with my choice of stones sequences etc.
Shameful.
The angali outfit. Dont know where to start.
First of the shirt was made out of NET (khaadi rawsilk??!) the embroidery was not of stones, as i was told. The necklines work was suppose to go below the bust area. And it wasnt even half way down embroidered. The embroidery was from some places fallen off. There is this ugllyyy brown spot on the front side of the shirt.
And these very very weird white stains are all over the shirt.
I mean very very ugggly white stains, that are very spreaded out on the shirt. The shirt has on the side a zip closure on it, and if you see that, it has this big CHAAI ka nishaan on it. So charming !!!
The dupatta on the contrary is fine.
Man i was so sad, i seriously did not even try them on. Coz i was so dissapointed.
I wrote the karma people again, and have complained about this.
But surprise surprise. No one has replied me back.
And i do not expect a reply either.
I know alot of you might have had a very sunshine experience with them.
But mine was definately not good.
I was ripped off, they took so much money from me. And i gained nothing.
I am never going to buy anything from these freakheads,
If they write to me (yeah right) i will definately let you guys know.
Thought i would share my story with you.
I would not reccomend anyone to purchase anything from them.
Its not worth it. You can get it made from pakistan, and you will be in full control over your clothes.
Please save some money ! and dont let these idiots get our/our parents/husbands hard earned money. They dont deserve it.
Thank you for taking ALOT of time out to read my thread !
xx
