Scammer Alert

Hi guys, i am from delhi currently travelling kolkata with my family. It's more like message for traveller coming kalighat kali mandir for darshan.

So the story begins with we going in mandir one of the guys came to us asking to remove footwear because it's not allowed inside the mandir. So me and my family got taken in the room beside the shop to remove shoes. We asked them about the price for keeping footwear safe they said just buy the basket with we'll include that in the basket cost. So we agreed and bought the basket and not single one of the guys stopped from buying it why you may ask time of mandir opening and closing is from 6am to 1pm and then 4pm mandir opens again. The owner didn't say anything abou time and then one of the guys took us and asked us if you'll enter as vip or normal. We say normal and then we proceded towards gate to see it closed.

We asked the guy why the gate is closed he said I told you about the time and we all knew he didn't said shit about time and we already bought the basket. And then the guy said you have to wait till 4pm for mandir to reopen and said you can explore the bazaar til then and I saw the time it was 1:27pm. So we explored a little and thought in our 12 days of trip we can come some other time to explore the mandir and right now we should get our money back at this time vendor already took the basket to his shop and when we reached the shop and asked for giving our money back. The guy told this 2nd dude to call this guy in the image and then he comes out and start saying why can't you come later at 4pm. I know running businesses and especially for vendors is hard but still we needed the money back. We didn't even used his basket and Pooja smagari innit he already took it and then he said I can't give the money back even though we didn't used his stuff all the guys already knew about the whole time thing still nobody said anything and we in hurry bough it and going with the flow. it's bad on us too we should've done research about the mandir timing and all.

In the end we tried to fight he screamed so hard that it scared my momma and me and dad said keep the money and moved on and in the last glimpse turning back I saw 3 of them laughing so if you're coming here beware of these scammers.

And yeah I could've made police compalint over 200 rupees I didn't because I don't understand language that well and owner was so confident that call police I'll deal with them no worries. So I didn't bother calling thinking police prolly gonna favor him over as we are not local. Also I was with my family with nana and children's and didn't wanna involve them in the situation.