[Resolved]  India Today Books Club — Charging of Rs 800/- for free gift and not providing the accomodation to avail free gift

I was regularly getting offer thro email from India Today for purchasing the books at discount and avail free gift that is Holiday voucher in the year 2008. Even their representative contacted me at phone also telling the benefit of the offer. Finally considering India Today as reputed & genuine company I agreed to purchase the books and get holiday voucher which was two days free stay in any one of the listed cities mentioned in the voucher. I was sent the books of Rs 999/- vide invoice no ORA[protected] and membership no ITBC07329667. I was surprised When I saw the terms and conditions of Holiday Voucher which was not informed before.
First it was not holiday voucher as it cannot be availed on holidays like weekends and closed holidays. In addition to that it was valid only for limited dates/period of the months of a year. To avail this holiday voucher it was also told to send a DD of Rs 800/- as registration charges to India Hotel Review .com which will arrange the accommodation. These conditions were not told before purchasing the books and I found it cheating by the company. Any way I registered with India hotel review.com by sending required documents and a DD of Rs 800/- in April 2009. India hotel review .com asked me to give them three dates and three different destinations for accommodation and availing the Voucher. I sent them three dates and three destinations for the month of Sept- Oct for booking at listed destination of Mahabaleshwar, Lonvala etc. I was assured by India hotel review .com that I would get at my first chosen destination. Believing them I booked the tickets from Dehradun (My place of stay) to Pune/Bombay but later they informed it was not possible for above destination because of heavy crowd. I again contacted them in Nov 2009 and requested to book in Haridwar for any date in Dec 2009. Haridwar being near to my place, I visited there several times but I just wanted to avail the voucher. The official of India hotel review .com told that it was not possible in Dec -2009 and I should take in the last week of Jan-2010. Accordingly after discussing with her I booked for 19-21 Jan’2010. I was assured that I would get the accommodation on requested date. To my surprise this time again I was informed few days that the accommodation is not available on the above dates. Now it is clear that they are not interested to provide me accommodation and it was only to cheat me and collected Rs 800/-. Because of this I lost on booking to and fro railway ticket to Pune and Maharastra along with Rs 800/- the registration fee charged by India hotel review .com. Now I must be compensated by the company for the expenditure I incurred for my trip to Maharastra and Rs 800/- charged by India hotel review .com for the service which they have not provided
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Aug 13, 2020
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books — FREE GIFTS

SIte not getting for claiming FREE GIFTS as instructed by indiatoday,
ORDER NO. ORA[protected]
ITBC07278868

India Today Books club — Fraudulent promotions

India Today joins ranks with many Indian A grade fradulent companies - promoting spurious schemes such as freebies with CDs or books - for which they charge exorbitantly and do not give. I ordered on COD a set of 8 CDs for 1100 rupees for which India Today was offering free gifts of a Reebok T Shirt and a bag. My order no is OGA[protected] and order date is 24th March'09. While this particular web-page, where they solicit or beg for money, seems to work oh just fine, their link meant for redemption of the free coupon code conks off when you fill in the coupon code and submit. So does their phone no:[protected]. For your fraudulent activities and petty unethical behavior, Mr Aroon Purie and Living Media Co, you are lucky you operate in a country that has soft laws. I am for sure not going to buy any of your substandard stuff anymore.

Hope this forum takes notice and alerts people of this.

Thanks

Pallav
I also order books by order no OGA[protected] on 17th oct 2008 and they send me the order by invoice no OHA[protected] with in few days, but my free gifts are still on the way. Whenever i call them at[protected] they assured me to deliver with in 15 days, but really they are in a country that has soft laws.

Let see how long they can go with this kind of fraudulent activities.

HARISH GUSAIN
im having a order, and my order no is 0GA[protected] on april 18 for 3nights 4days holiday voucher but they sent only books i cal them back on o[protected] no one can get da call for three days i think im cheated any can join with me for take legal actions can we...
i am sanjay kumar
Hellow, guys i had got same mails, asking me to get the details submitted and UYou can win 8, 00000/- (INR). Is this is a fraud or not. Please help me out.

India Today Books club — cheating and wrong commitment

I have purchased one SUMSUNG MOBILE from india today book club. My membership number is : ITBC09102022. ON 8//9/09 This month i received my
order. But as per below given mail from you i did not received any of my offer till date ... The login site was given to me in not in use every time i logged in they refused by using maintance words only.

I contacted your Cust Care people they are very rude and arrogant.. They always told me to logging after two or three day i contacted them three or four time now i am not contacting any one.

These are my offer from you :



With this offer you will be also getting Holiday Stay Voucher for 3 days and 2 nights and you will also get Free Accomodation, Breakfast and Dinner from our side for 1 couple and 1 kid below 5 years during your stay, Free Round-Trip Air Ticket voucher worth up to Rs 7000 and a Diamond Jewellery Purchase cum Discount Voucher from Surat Diamonds worth Rs. 5000.


Since you have time to send me this offer with 48 Hrs other wise i should go to leagal authorites to get my offer.. and mentally harrasment charges>


another

From: atul kumar sharma
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:53 PM
To: ITBC4U
Cc: response (ITBC); Feedback
Subject: Fw: Samsung Marine-Mobile



Dear All,

This is atul sharma one of your harrased customer since i purchased one mobile from your culb. But i didn't get my order in full.. my free offer still lying with your people now every one linger on me and treat me as shuttle cock, I spoke to lot of people but all in vain.

Kindly resolve my problem with 48 yrs. or i should be visit to leagal and media authorities to show them how you cheat people by making false and wrong commitements.

Since every thing related to offer ,which is given to me, is being black and white with me.

Rgds
Atul Sharma
From: atul kumar sharma [mailto:[protected]@rediffmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:53 PM
To: ITBC4U
Cc: response (ITBC); Feedback
Subject: Fw: Samsung Marine-Mobile



Dear All,

This is atul sharma one of your harrased customer since i purchased one mobile from your culb. But i didn't get my order in full.. my free offer still lying with your people now every one linger on me and treat me as shuttle cock, I spoke to lot of people but all in vain.

Kindly resolve my problem with 48 yrs. or i should be visit to leagal and media authorities to show them how you cheat people by making false and wrong commitements.

Since every thing related to offer, which is given to me, is being black and white with me.

Rgds
Atul Sharma

THIS CLUB SHOULD BE STOPPED COZ THIS CLUB CHEATING AND INCREASING SOME FROUD CASES IN COURT BY USING WRONG COMMITMENT TO CLIENTS
I am having a order of Nokia 3500, Neither they told me the order number nor the custmer number but deduced the payment from credit card. I think they are the biggest fraud
No reply from email also.
I AM A SIMILAR VICTIM OF THE FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES OF THIS ORGANISATION. THEY HAVE SENT ME A BOGUS UNIQUE NO FOR HOLIDAY PACKAGE.MY PHONE NO IS [protected]. INCASE THERE IS ANY ONE WHO CAN HELP ME PLEASE CONTACT ME.
sir my membership no. itbc10242541 i have ordered reebok kit . which i have receive on 26/02/2010 when i wear the lower first time, stuff was torn after that i contact to customer care for the above said matter. executive said you send it back to india today .. i have courier on 6/03/2010 by dtdc courier which u have receive on 8/03/2010. slip no . is z08784023 plz check and revert me as soon as possible.

India Today Books club — Package booked on 14.02.09 still not received.

Dear sir,
I had booked oneof the package from indiatoday bookclub containing 12 best book seller book pack+To and Fro air ticket anywhere in india + Hotel stay of 3days and 2 nights+Reebok shoes+Reebok bag @ Rs.2598 and i had done payment by credit card on dated 14.02.2009 , with booking id[protected]. But still i didnt received any package, after follow up to their customer care i came to know that package didnt reached on destination due to wrong postal pin code,after that i corrected my pin code and confirmed the address also,after that i got only assurance it will reach in 20 days time frame.
I had done lot of follow up and even sent mail too but i didnt got any proper response from pathetic service of india today.Even after that i booked another package and i got assurance i will receive both package in one delivery,i received 2nd package but still didnt recived 1st one. After continous follow up with india today customer care,their executive told us due to stock out of 1st package they will refund my money and even they took my hdfc bank account no.But still no refund credited in account ,now i am not interested in that package at all and i want my money back.
so kindly request to look in the matter and do the needfull for refund.
Thanking you.
Makarand Aher
Mobile:[protected]

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