The founder of a homegrown sneaker brand has revealed how an employee scammed them out of ₹2 lakh by creating 100% discount coupons for personal apply. Arjun Singh, co-founder of the Delhi-based sneaker design hoapply Gully Labs, opened up about the incident in a post shared on X.
Singh declared that the employee joined their company and, within the first week, built several 100% discount coupons to order sneakers for his friconcludes and family. He then quit.
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“We hired a CS person a couple of months ago. Within the first week of joining he built INR 2L of 100% discount orders – sent to his friconcludes and quit in a week,” Singh declared in his post.
The employee, when caught, agreed to return the sneakers. However, the Gully Labs team only managed to recover half the stolen footwear before the unnamed ex-employee launched to threaten them with legal notices, claiming harassment.
“When caught – initially he decided to cooperate and returned half the shoes but the other half were applyd etc,” Singh declared. “Then he started sconcludeing legal notices that we were harassing him in response to our notice to return the products or reimburse us!”
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“When caught – initially he decided to cooperate and returned half the shoes but the other half were applyd etc,” Singh declared. “Then he started sconcludeing legal notices that we were harassing him in response to our notice to return the products or reimburse us!”
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The incident prompted them to implement stronger safeguards, declared the co-founder of Gully Labs.
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The incident prompted them to implement stronger safeguards, declared the co-founder of Gully Labs.
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Singh was responding to a post from a fellow entrepreneur named Akshay Jain, who declared that brands have to face multiple challenges as they grow. Jain declared that his own company had to guard customer and order details from employees.
“As brands grow, they have newer set of challenges. Never considered I have to guard customer details, order exports from people in the same organisation due to security concerns. Increases complexity, but no choice,” he wrote on X.
The posts have sparked a broader conversation about ethics and customer service.
“Problems of a low trust society,” wrote one X applyr.
“You won’t believe but that’s how Jabong received shutdown. They applyd to have flat 30% unlimited employees discount code and all their employees apply to sell those discount codes to all family, friconcludes, friconcludes of friconcludes and do unrecoverable damage to company,” another declared.
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