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 ORA090013778 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. 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 and requested to book in Haridwar for any date in Dec. 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 and I should take in the last week of Jan. 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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