[Resolved]  India Today Book Club — Cheating and not honouring the commitments

I had Purchased a holiday package from on March 13th 2011 from India Today Book Club (Bagit), Order ID is: [protected],
During the time of purchase I informed telesales executive Mr Vishal (mobile No[protected])that i would purchase the Package Provied that i will allowed to split the holiday (7N/8D) .
Mr Vishal Confirmed to me that it possible to split the package with two conditions .ie 1. the Hotel /Resort Chain has to same
All Location have to be in india . It was agreeable to me ,and I purchased the Voucher Trusting your sales person's assurance and also considering the fact the Bagit today was backed by reputed india Today Group and Credible .
3. Vishal offered me second deal ,that if a i purchased a second voucher same day or refered a friend , i am entitled for a travel bag and a sunglasses as a gift, so i purchased a second voucher same day considering the gift.
4.On Mar 13, 2011 ,I Received a Email detailing the offer and with an attachment containing list of resorts
5. I Neither rececived a travel bag nor sunglasses till date ,i tried calling vishal , his mobile was switched off thereafter
6.On Oct 17 2011 , i had sent a mail to [protected]@1touchsolution.com to redeem my voucher , To my utter shock and dissapointment , i recieved a mail stating the i cant split my holiday package (2 different location on consicutive days but same resort chain)
5.My subsquent emails and complaints had no response
6.On Jan 11 ,2012 , i sent DD for Rs 750 as per their terms and condition for Redeming travel voucher , along with it i sent Prefered destination and resort (from the list they provided) , that i would like to visit with date option.
7.On 14 jan , i recieved a mail from them stating that the resort (Mahindra holidays) which i have selected is not in their list even though it very much in the list.
8.On 16th Jan 2011,I Made 12 Calls to their customer care , First call was recieved and after listening to my complaint ,i was kept on hold for 12 min before disconnecting the line . all the subsequent calls were disconnected
It is clear from above incident that India Today Book Club (BagIt) conducts it business in a fraudulant manner ,cheating and misleading people to sell their non existant offer .
I would like to India today Book Club to honour thier commitment or REFUND the Entire amount
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Aug 13, 2020
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India Today Book Club — Cheater Company

India Today has been using IRCTC for promoting their books. As IRCTC is a reputed online booking platform for railway tickets I decided to book a product through India Today Book Club. I paid through credit card online, and the product never arrived. After numerous emails to them they wrote back that they were changing office and so could not send the product. This was 2 yrs ago. Till date the product never came nor was the amount refunded to my credit card. Finally after a year the products arrived after one year whereby they wanted me to pay by VPP the same amount. No amount of emails had any effect.
Now they have started this new thing. They send editor's choice books by VPP when you have not ordered and expect you to pay.I have rejected all.
Then I keep getting promotional emails from them and after having blocked them, they have started with SMS, whereby clogging my inbox.
They are untrustworthy and if you search Google there are many complaints against them.

India Today Books club — Cheating

SIR I HAVE ORDERED BOOKS FROM BOOK CLUB INDIA AND ALONG WITH THEM I WAS TOLD BY THE CLUB THAT I WILL RECEIVE AN REEBOK WATCH ALONG WITH THE BOOKS. SO I PAID Rs. 499/- ON DELIVERY OF THE BOOKS. BUT THEN THEY TOLD ME THAT I WILL HAVE TO CLAIM MY FREE GIFT ON BELOW MENTIONED WEBSITE. I AM FACING A PROBLEM IN CLAIMING MY FREE GIFT ON http://www.bookstoday.in/promos.htm. I HAVE ALSO TALKED TO THEIR CUSTOMER CARE EXECUTIVE ON[protected] BUT THEY ARE JUST TELLING ME THAT YOU CAN CLAIM IT AFTER 24 HOURS. 25 DAYS HAVE BEEN PASSED SINCE I RECEIVED MY ORDER OF BOOKS AND PAYMENT DONE. SO MY REQUEST TO YOU IS STOP CHEATING OF PEOPLE LIKE THIS. THIS IS A FRAUD SITE AND JUST ENGAGED IN CHEATING BUSINESS BY LURING PEOPLE TO FREE GIFTS. MY ORDER NUMBER IS 0GA[protected], MEMBERSHIP NUMBER IS ITBC08352569 AND UNIQUE PROMOTION NUMBER GIVEN BY THEIR CUSTOMER EXECUTIVE IS[protected]A[protected]. AND I AM GETTING "You have made incorrect entries. Kindly check and enter once again !!!" MESSAGE AFTER I ENTER MY PROMOTION NUMBER. IF YOU WANT MONEY DO GOOD THINGS SO THAT PEOPLE REMEMBER YOUR NAME UNDER GOOD THINGS. AND ALSO I WANT MY FREE GIFT. MY CONTACT NO. IS [protected].
Sir,

I have bookd encyclopedia cd(3CD)on 06.09.2009 with free gift of Reeboac Bag, and payment also made online on the same day, today Ihave received CD only, Ihave not received the mentioned Bag while ordering the CD from India Todaybook club.Asper invoice letter, one unique No is given to me but no response in online, No is[protected]A[protected], details of order given below.
Invoice No :-ORA[protected]
Membership No :-ITBC09109359
Name :- M A Gafoor, Chennai.
I purchased CD and based on the confidence on India Today .We all had good opinion on India today. This should not be spoiled
I request kindly send the free gift at the erliest

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M.A.Gafoor,
65/1 CPWD Quarters,
Thirumangalam, Annanagar Post
Chennai-40
Cell No [protected]

Email.Id:- [protected]@yahoo.co.in

India Today Book Club — Holiday Voucher not honoured

I had purchased one set of music CD & one set of books from India Today Book Club in Feb 2009 ( Invoice No ORA[protected] & ORAO90025556 and ITBC Membership No ITBC08783388 & ITBC[protected].They had given me two holiday hotel booking vouchers as part of packages. As per ITBC instructions in holiday vouchers received from IBTC website, I had sent my holiday package booking requests with all required documents and two DD of Rs 800 to IndiaHotelReview.com, Noida in 2009. They have given all acknowledgements but never made my bookings for holiday packages provided by ITBC. I had written several times to ITBC & IHR in 2009 & 2010, but did not get any result.I have been cheated by them. I have been asking for refund of my payment of Rs 1600, but no luck so far.Since I have sent payment & documents to IHR, only as per ITBC instructions, I want refund from IBTC / IHR as well as compensation for all harrassment & agony faced by me.Kindly help me - From Bahubali Shah & Sunanda Shah
Hi,

I too have been facing the same issue... I too have posted compliants against India Today book club. But I there are thousands of compliants lying there. Is anything happening to our compliants?

I think it is time for us to gettogether and fight this menace collectively. They have just open the shop to harrass, fool and cheat ppl.

Ashish
Hi ! Mallya i want bad feeling if you want to purchage holiday package please visit here...

http://www.insideindianjungles.com/
http://htoindia.com/

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