First off they are not in any way related to the Bajaj auto/electrical as you would believe. This business is led by a fraud group who uses young girls as their "staff" into luring people who are looking for travel and stay arrangement packages on an annual basis. Their prize catch is usually a retired couple looking for yearly vacations across India or working couples who are too busy to contact travel agenst for each vacation.
Here's their modus-operandi: You will get a call or a message inviting you to a venue where you have won some prize (gift vouchers) after answering 3 simple questions on the phone. Pleased with yourself because you are smarter than an average "paanchvi paas", you reach the venue and the gift voucher is not even mentioned till you sit through the whole "trap" of an event and are somehow talked into buying one of their holiday membership packages. The price of a "lifetime" package is somewhere around 2 lakhs (as of today) and they will try their best to put you into this trap. If 2 lakhs seems too much to you they will then offer you "smaller" packages to the tune of 1 lakh, 50000 or 30000. Oh, by the way all the schemes are "special offers" valid only for that day and you have to pay on the same day to avail of the special offer (that statement should give you a clue to Run away as soon as possible). You only have to search the internet to find out how many people have fallen prey to these thugs and found out that their hotel-booking and travel-booking agents will actually charge you more than what it will cost to directly book through the individual hotels/vehicles. So they will charge you Rs.30, 000 for a 5 year membership which is supposed to give you discounts for your vacations, but instead you will end up paying more than the usual prices for all your vacations in the next 5 years. They also promise you part-refund in case you don't go for a vacation a particular year, but believe me - once you paid them any amount of money, say final bye-bye to that money ..rest assured you will never see it back again... ever.
Their staff is mostly of young girls who know nothing about the business and are helpless, probably paid less than 3000 a month. Low paid staff increases "profit-margins" further (sorry for using the respectful term "profit" for a business that is outright looting unsuspecting people). I applaud the masterminds behind Bajaj Highland business for their execution of the whole con and the sheer size of each of their plunders (I feel sorry for the people who paid for their lifetime membership plan by paying in lakhs of rupees).
Although I was fortunate in that I only paid them 1000 down-payment and issued a check of Rs.29, 000 (which I immediately cancelled after reading multitude of complaints against them on several forums on the internet), I think these thugs should be arrested immediately and the money of all the people and retired couples that they have plundered over the years returned to their rightful owners. Losing 50000 of your hard earned money will make you very very restless and angry. I hope my complaint here causes some action against these smart fraudsters by the consumer courts in India and at least prevents more people losing a big chunk of their hard earned money to these theives.
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