A Friend had 1.2L mobile reimbursement budget at work and don’t want a new phone.
Sale is about Purchase any new phone worth 1.2L at 20-30% disc.
Bill will be on friends name for reimbursement, you will get a copy for it.
Purchase has to be from Amazon, no card disc would be applicable.
MIn device value should be 1.1L
Is it 20% or 30%? That’s like more than an INR 10K difference.
will accommodate credit card or other discounts depending on the product. If there is no credit card or promotional offer, the discount will be 20%. If a credit card or other applicable discount is available, can accommodate that bringing the total discount to around 30%
Open for discussions.
So your friend is willing to defraud his employer and risk his job ?
its not defraud, he is selling his mobile.
he wants to optimize the process and share a headsup
Defraud how? its not free, he worked for it.
LMK if he gets a reimbursement budget for a new GPU.
If this is a psu/govt controlled company then I suggest not to do this because they have more strict compliance & rules regulations regarding such things. Better to just sell old phone & keep the new phone from this budget.
I think some people order the phone from Amazon get the invoice and cancel the order.
Since, this is not your friend’s personal money and is being reimbursed as an operational expense by the organisation, then diversion of funds for “personal” benefit constitutes embezzlement, in other words defrauding the organisation.
I don’t know about your friend’s organisation but it is not unheard from organisation to demand proof of purchase physically. In some organisations, in case of termination or change of jobs, deposition of purchased business items are required. In government services, some departments need deposition of the item after EOL/depreciation period.
Rather than getting directly into embezzlement territory, the safest solution IMO, your friend should buy the device personally and sell the older device. In ethically grey zone, he can buy the device personally and sell it, but that comes with the issues mentioned above.
I will recommend buying new, selling old to reduce unnecessary potential headaches.
PS: reimbursement is never your money, it is organisation’s money and the item thus bought is theirs. Don’t ever think of it as your “earned” money or your item. Be careful with it. It takes only one senior with integrity, curiosity and dedication to investigate reimbursement frauds, which are rampant.
I wanted to add one more thing to it.
Reimbursement is an indirect way of organisation buying things. Through reimbursement, organisation reduces its procurement expenditure and provides choices to its employees to fulfil their roles optimally.
Say, Instead of reimbursing, if the organisation bought the phone itself and gave it to your friend, would he be equally comfortable selling the organisation’s phone and pocketing the benefits? I know, most of us will not because that is palpably unethical and manifestly illegal. There is no difference here.
Depending on the organisation, many match the invoice with GST portal filing for High Value Expenses. I have seen some cases of reimbursements getting denied or underpaid because of mismatch between the invoice and the filing on GST portal. Cancelled invoice can also be easily verified.
He been working with that org for 10+yrs and there is no issue with this, There is no checks all he need is GST invoice for org claim GST and he will be reimbursed.
Why only amazon ? Can’t we buy from samsung
if you are interested he has already ordered samsung s25 ultra.
i Think amazon is easy for him for paperwork.