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The online trading system as well as the phone-order service of ICICIdirect broke down today leaving numerous customers feeling completely helpless. However, the company is keeping mum so far
ICICIdirect.com, ICICI Securities Ltd's retail trading and investment services portal crashed today due to technical glitches. This has put all of its customers in deep trouble. Till writing the story, the trading or customer login page on icicidirect.com was showing an error message saying:"Dear Customer, Our website ICICIdirect.com is not available today due to technical issues. We truly regret the inconvenience caused to you."
ICICIdirect.com was down since morning with a message that the services will be resumed at 8.55am, the time when trading commences on bourses. However, throughout the day, customers were not able to log in or do any online trading. Even its CallNtrade facility used for placing orders through a phone was not working.
According to some customers, their repeated calls to ICICIdirect's helpline were met with replies like "Sorry, but we have a technical problem"; "We cannot transfer to our superior because he is on another call" and "Our superior will give you the same response". The media relations person first put Moneylife on hold and then did not take the subsequent calls. Our query to the CEO, Madhabi Puri Buch has not been responded to.
ICICIdirect does not have a dedicated helpline and the customers have to go through the ICICI Bank helpline in a series of complicated steps, with a wait time of up to 7-10 minutes at times, a customer said.
The magnitude of the technical problem was such that the brokerage was not even taking orders over the phone, confirmed another customer.
The Sensex jumped by more than 200 points within seconds of opening today thanks to strong overseas markets. Customers who wanted to square off their shorts were forced to watch their losses mount due to the technical problem. Those who wanted to sell their shares could not book profits.
"ICICIdirect is one of the most expensive online brokers and a breakdown in its services is very upsetting," one customer told us
akgupta74
5 months agoIt’s down since morning
mandeepsangwan21
5 months agoIt is still down, very bad service
anil.trivedi6128
5 months agoICICI direct website is down again.....since last 10 min
nasreenbanu841
7 months agoIs icicidirect website is down today dated 22.7.2020 . The login I’d are not accepted .....
nasreenbanu841
In Reply to nasreenbanu841 7 months agoCan anyone confirm whether it is technical issue at icici end? Staffs are. It responding properly....
Aditya Hui
1 decade agoEven ICICIdirect's trade racer (online trading platform ) seems to be full of bugs. Today (September 07, 2010) the trade racer platform is not showing the prices or any other data (open, high-low, volume etc) of any of the saved scripts! Astonishingly it was working properly in the morning also. ICICIdirect does not have a dedicated helpline & helpline for demat a/c has to be accessed through ICICI Bank helpline in a series of complicated steps. Just to access a costumer care executive takes atleast 5 minutes. Moreover these “Customer Care” numbers are not toll-free.
In July and August also there were many instances where I could not log in despite providing the proper login-id and password. The responses from the customer care executives have been very unhelpful to say the least. This is despite the fact that their brokerages are amongst the highest and they also charge a hefty annual dp fees.
I have decided to close my dp account with ICICI once my holding are transferred to another demat accout. My sincere advise to all traders and investors- Stay away from ICICIdirect
Puneet
1 decade agoSite is again down since yesterday. Two continuous days of downtime on 26-7-2010 and 27-7-2010.
I wonder what kind of technical staff this company has hired. Not only are the customers suffering but the company has also lost 2 day's worth of revenue that they could have earned as brokerage.
Sameer Joshi
1 decade agoWebsite is still down. Earlier message was it will be available post 1500hrs then it was updated to 1900hrs and now it will be down till tomorrow :
Dear Customer,
Site will be available from 09:00(IST) on July 11,2010. We regret any inconvenience caused.
Customer Service
ICICIdirect.com
Deepak Mishra
1 decade agoBoss, even I am ICICI Direct customer and using their site since last 10 years. this is first time i have faced such a problem with them. if this is a technical error then this can happen with anybody. even with your company. I had my positions opened and they help me square off the same. its not that they had no alternative. let's not play the blame game. I am sure there is a big business loss even to ICICI because of this, over and above loosing faith of customers. There team is under more pressure than us. Let's cooperate with them. I have used other brokers site too without naming, others also has atleast 1 to 2 times blocks like this every year.
Srinivas
In Reply to Deepak Mishra 1 decade agoBoss. When you charge higher than others for the service you provide, you must have a proper backup process to service the clients. When will they learn from their mistakes? This is not the first time that ICICI has problems. Technical glitches are part and parcel of all packages, but this is ridiculous to have bungled up for 24 hrs.
Adarsh
1 decade agoIt's making such a big fool out of us. Every time I refresh a page, it asks me to try after 5 mins. After 5 mins, the counter starts again!! The site was down for more than 24 hrs & none of them was sensitive enough to write an email explaining what happened & what they are doing!!
vinod gupta
1 decade agotoday also icici direct is making fun & fool
yesterday full day and today after refreshing its telling to visit after 4 minutes and then its demat bal is visible but u refresh once or twice , same appears that this will be available after 4 minutes. seriously thinking of changing my demat ac. because more than me this co is earning from me.nirmal bang is offering free demat + insur+medclaim any one any idea please
Sachi
1 decade agoThe site is up now
Shantilal Hajeri
1 decade agoYesterday I tried to login but could not. The message read the services will be resumed at 11.00 am. But it did not resume the whole day.
They should anticipate such problems and keept the back up in place.
meenakshi negi
1 decade ago..I just read a comment that the site becomes slow when u need it the most its a fact and I can vouch for it .I'm seriously thinking of taking my account elsewhere. Also,I'd like to know who is going to compensate the losses incurred by us.
Sachi
1 decade agoThe site is down till now and the website message remains the same. I think SEBI should pitch in here. The quality of the website has anyways been inconsistent. Some insiders say that ICICI direct slows down when you need it the most. Not sure how true that is, but of late I have experienced trouble in doing modify allocation on several occasions. The helpdesk is a paid phone service, that keeps customer on wait for at leat 5 minutes. To summarize it is so unhelpful that one would rather keep to himself than to go to them.
Radhakrishna
1 decade agoLike many others, I could not make use of the positive market move of today to square of many of my long positions. Unfortunately, we got to know how good is this trading platform and how realistic are ICICI claims only now, at our own cost - better move on before it is too late.