Last year, I had sent Rs. 2000 to India Today Book Club when they evinced interrest in me with their promise of classical music CDs and gift vouchers for travel and also lucky draw in which the winnner will get huge amounts of money (the bait that I fell prey to as I am a person with family but not enough money, doing casual jobs, somehow maintaining the facade of a lower-middle class fellow but alway fear of falling into the ranks of the wretcheds). I paid the money by cheque and my bank passbook shows that they have encahsed the cheque. BUT I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANYTHING IN RETURN. THEY DID NOT SEND ME THE CLASSICAL MUSIC CDS. THEY DID NOT SEND ME ANY VOUNCHERS. AND NOTHING WAS HEARD OF ANY LUCK DRAW HELD BY THEM.
I tried to contact them though telephone but it was always difficult to get through as that number alway tell you to wait for their customer-care fellow. In the process I lost a lot of call time and value of my mobile.
Ater they encashed my cheque, they stopped any communication with me. Before that and from the day I had ordered, thorugh web, for some educaitonal CDs whcih they did sent to me along with an airbag as a gift, they used to send me various offers through post. But now they are pestering me every day by sending text messages on my mobile to sell sundry and various products.
Being a book lvoer, I had though they are only interested in reaching books and CDs to the people, but these people are really Banias out to sell all stuff.
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