WHIPMANTRA DISASTER : Exposing a systematic water/drink #skam by Skillbox at events - I have backend proof from WhipMantra 4.0
They walked off with 15 lacs by scamming people.
I’m posting this anonymously because I’m a journalist working on a story and I can’t stay silent any longer. I have obtained a screenshot from inside the Skillbox backend used for the WhipMantra 4.0 event by someone in their team in confidence. It proves what many attendees already suspect: a deliberate scam to steal refundable card balances.
Here’s how the scam works, based on the data I’m seeing in their own system:
- Attendees are forced to load money onto event wristbands/cards for food and drinks.
- The event policy says unused balances will be refunded at dedicated counters after the show.
- But staff close those refund counters intentionally early, before the crowd has fully dispersed, while there is still a huge amount of water and drinks left unsold.
- The backend shows that refund processing drops to near zero after a certain time, despite significant stock remaining and hundreds of people still trying to get their money back.
- Unrefunded balances simply stay with the organisers. From what I can see, it’s not a glitch : it’s a feature, repeated across multiple Skillbox events.
The screenshot I have clearly shows:
- Remaining inventory counts (water, soft drinks) when the counters were closed.
- A sharp drop in refund transactions after a specific timestamp, even though sales continued later.
- Zero refunds processed after a certain point, despite people still queuing (per multiple public complaints).
This isn’t a one-off mistake. I’ve spoken to people who witnessed the same at other Skillbox concerts, counters shut down, staff refusing refunds, and hundreds of angry attendees left stranded. The numbers I’ve seen suggest this could add up to lakhs of rupees in unrefunded money per event.
I’m sharing this because Skillbox has ignored complaints and deleted comments. They rely on people not having proof. Well, here it is : direct from their own dashboard.
What should happen now:
If you were at WhipMantra 4.0 or any other Skillbox event and never got your refund, please share your experience below. It’s time this racket stopped.