Big CONTEST SCAM running by India Today Book Club and BagItToday

**skshah** · 03-29-2010, 03:50 PM

My Booking ID 880089684 & 880090016
My Order Number TELESALES/0GA100008124 & TELESALES/0GA100008212
Payment Date: 12th Mar. 2010 & 13th Mar. 2010
Item: Samsung OMNI Pro B730 Mobile & Philips Home Theatre
Sales Person: Mr.Asim & Miss.Lila

Hi!

I like to inform you all that India Today Book Club is a BIG BIG SCAM Company and now they are with Contest SCAM!

They are running more that Rs.10Lacs Contest and for the same they and their sales persons call you and tell you that you are guaranteed winner of Rs.10,000 or Rs.30,000 or Rs.2Lac + price! And to confirm and get your price you required to purchase a product from them.

They call you many time + after purchase the next day other person from their sales team again call you and give you more (higher) amount of winning confirmation and again tell you to purchase new product!

They tell that you get your winning price on 31st Mar.2010 by Check OR DD.

I also received this type of phone call. First their sales team member Mr.Asim tell me that I am in Top 10 Winner List and I guaranteed get Rs.10,000 Price if I place order. After 2-3 times his confirmation I place a Order for Samsung Omni Pro B730 Mobile. He confirm me that I get winning price confirmation within 15-20min of my purchase payment. I paid using ICICI Bank Credit Card.

But I not get any winning price confirmation on same day!

Again their sales team member Miss.Lila call me on next day and tell me that I am now selected for Rs.30,000 guaranteed price! And now I am Top 5 list. She also confirm me that I get this change because One day back I placed a order for mobile. I tell her that I required winning confirmation details and she give me assurance that I defiantly get winning details within 20min of my new order payment. So, again I place a new order for Philips Home Theatre system.

But I not get any email in 12-24hrs! And again on next day their team member call me that I am now winner of Rs.2Lac+ price!!! So, first I tell him to confirm my Rs.30,000 price by email. But he said that they have no user rights to send email! Also he tell me that their all phone calls are recorded by IndiaTodayBookClub for security purpose and I guaranteed get Rs.2 Lacs price. But I not place new order and send email to their all team members on "

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" with all details.

I get reply from Mr.Piyush that "With reference to your mail we would like to inform you that your both orders 880089684 & 880090016 is under process from our end we request you that kindly wait for some days you will receive the same soon." BUT NO Winning Price details !!!

So, Again I send email and tell them to confirm my winning price. Because I only place this both order get winning money.

I get reply after 2 days from Sonia that "We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. With reference to your mail, we would like to inform you that we are not providing any cash prize along with the order." !!!

So, I send email and tell them that I also recorded all this three phone calls and I have recording of this all 3 phone calls. If I not get confirmation within next 48hrs than I am going to file a consumar case against their company.

After this step they start calling me on my cell and tell me that its not possible to confirm winning amount by email! But I get Rs.10,000 guaranteed price! So, I tell them that I req. Rs.30,000 and also required price confirmation by email.

After thsi their team head call me and tell me that they are sorry for all this and they are going to take step against their sales team member. But this is not true that I get price! Its a competition and I just get entry by placing order!

Means this all is a BIG cheating!

So, I tell them that I am not at-all interested in product. And I want refund.

Still they send me a Phillips home theater ! But I not accepted it and return it.

They still not refunded my amount to credit card. But my credit card provider "ICICI Bank" team confirm me that if I not get refund that they process my charge back.

It's my luck that I paid using Credit Card PLUS I recorded their phone call! Otherwise nothing !

It's better to purchase from local shop instead of this types of cheating sites. They are running BagItToday site with same types of offers. But if you search google you get many scam case against them!

This both site are from IndiaToday Group of people but both are BIG Fraud site. I don't understand why this type of Big Group done this Fraud with Indian People!

Their sales team members are very smart. On selling time they offer you many offers or contest winning or prices with your purchase. But after purchase NO ONE ans you! Even their support team reply and tell you that their own sales team member given you wrong details! This is only if you send them many emails OR call them many times. Otherwise nothing!

You loose your money + valuable time + Did not get product or get wrong product + Not get gift or price as per their offer!

So, be careful and DO NOT PLACE any order...

Thanks for reading...

Regards,

Siddharth Shah

**Sidhant** · 03-29-2010, 10:17 PM

Hello and thanx foe sharing your expeirance with us,

Such companies should be banned, and I support you for that, File a consumer case against them, this is the only way to screw them.

If you have any question then feel free to contact us.

Unregistered · 08-03-2010, 12:14 PM

Thanks Mr. S. K. Shah,
A many many thanks to Mr. Shah for posting the thread. It's u that saves me from being another victim of these cheaters. GOD saves me. Yesterday i received a phone call from the same saying i won a cash prize of Rs. 100 000/- from India book club for purchase of gold / diamond jewelery. To win this prize i have to purchase an item among three, they said. I chosen for LG LCD and i also asked them, is this a sales promotion scheme? they replied you have actually won the price. and i mad my mind for purchase of the product but due to some technical reasons my payments could not get processed. Today, when again the phone call came to me i searched google for chances of any fraud behind the offer. There was another question in my mind and for people, a logical question arises, if someone wins a prize then what is a need to purchase the product. Finally today i refused to order after reading the thread posted by Mr. Shah. It is requested to people who suffered such and faced such scams and frauds, please post and inform to the general public so that people could be saved from such shameless scamers and cheaters.
Thanks to people who reports such kind of frauds and scams.

**gauravmandawawala** · 08-14-2010, 12:36 AM

Dear sir/madam

This is to inform you that i am an eminent customer of Indiatodaybook club. I have been purchasing products from past 4 years.But i am really sorry to say that this time my product was not delivered properly and i have already paid the money.

I ordered for UCB Women's wallet and belt worth rs 898 via sms from my mobile number 9844744240. when i received the courier, only belt was there.

I immediately wrote to feedback@indiatodaybookclub.com and response@indiatodaybookclub.com
I even complained to indiatoday book club customer care on 01140502424.I was given the complaint number as 590310.

Inspite of my several calls, nothing has been done. i am mentioning every details below.

INVOICE NUMBER - ORA100012621

INVOICE DATE - 29-07-2010

ORDER NO. - OGA100012782

ORDER DATE - 27-07-2010

LOC ID - A

ACTIVITY - SMS

CONSIGNMENT NO - 6147198816

TRACKING ID - 2010-00000000D139640

MEMBERSHIP NO - ITBC08489441

INVOICE AMT - RS 898

Weight - 400 gms

All i want is please send me the UCB Women's wallet.

I will look forward to your speedy promptness.

Kumar gaurav

+919844744240

Bangalore

**India** · 01-19-2011, 03:17 PM

Kindly Check the Below mention blog..

**India** · 01-19-2011, 03:17 PM

Dear Sir,
We have come across your online complaint registered on consumercourt.in.
We would like to inform you that your refunds have already been processed and credited into your account, please find below the refund details:-

• Refund Date- 14-MAY-2010
• Booking id- 880090016
• Transaction id- 201006147558660
• Refund Amount- 7598.00

• Refund Date- 20-MARCH-2010
• Booking id- 880089684
• Transaction id- 201004091391610
• Refund Amount- 13998.00

We request you to kindly get in touch with your bank/ credit card provider and confirm the

receipt of the refund amount to us.

We value your association with India Today Book Club and thank you for your patronage & co-operation.
For any further query or assistance, please feel free to write us on offersb@bagittoday.com
Please note our new customer care number is now – 0120-4112424
We would request you to kindly mention this subject: ONLINE COMPLAINTS whenever you e-mail us for the quicker response.
Thanks & Regards,
Team, BagIt Today.

me@skshah.com · 01-20-2011, 10:44 AM

It's better to not buy anything from bagittoday...

Always offer new products at good price but no support + bad delivery time + problems...

Originally Posted by india

dear sir,
we have come across your online complaint registered on consumercourt.in.
We would like to inform you that your refunds have already been processed and credited into your account, please find below the refund details:-

• refund date- 14-may-2010
• booking id- 880090016
• transaction id- 201006147558660
• refund amount- 7598.00

• refund date- 20-march-2010
• booking id- 880089684
• transaction id- 201004091391610
• refund amount- 13998.00

we request you to kindly get in touch with your bank/ credit card provider and confirm the

receipt of the refund amount to us.

We value your association with india today book club and thank you for your patronage & co-operation.
For any further query or assistance, please feel free to write us on offersb@bagittoday.com
please note our new customer care number is now – 0120-4112424
we would request you to kindly mention this subject: Online complaints whenever you e-mail us for the quicker response.
Thanks & regards,
team, bagit today.

Unregistered · 02-25-2011, 05:45 PM

This is to bring to your notice that there are fake calls happening on behalf of India today book club to dupe consumers just like i was.

I received a call from a person day before yesterday who said he was calling from the verification dept of India today book club. He said that there have been many complaints registered against ITBC and inorder to make ammends they have now decided to identify a few existing consumers and offer them products at 90% discount.

The products were worth Rs 1 lac ( Sony LCD TV, Blackberry phone & Compaq laptop) which would be offered to me at Rs 10,000 flat. All i had to do is to transfer the money to an account after which they would give me courier details of the package that would be delivered to me at my residence. I was wary of the offer as it seem to be a hoax but the person convinced me that this was not a sale that he was making and thus he would not force me to accept it. It is complete voluntary to accept or reject the offer. Besides the amount will go into charity and i will also receive a tax certificate for the same. Though not fully convinced I decided to take a chance.

However before making any transfer to the bank acount provided by the person( Care Today foundation, account no 1894002101011518, IFC code PUNB0189400), i called up the bagit customer care number and inquired if there was any such offer from India today. They told me that the offer was genuine so i decided to proceed with the needful. I even spoke to a person who pretended to be a senior at the verification department for confirming the bank details required for the NEFT process.

Now that the amount of Rs 10,000 has got transferred to the said account and i have not received any call whatsoever and when i called the bagit customer care number again, the same person told me that it was a fake call and that i just got cheated.

I have lost all trust & respect for India today Book Club even if the call was a hoax( i am not sure about this???). That there are many such complaints against ITBC on the net just validates my concern. I will not recommend ITBC to anybody in the near future and instead warn them of taking any offers.

Unregistered · 03-21-2011, 01:52 PM

Bagittoday..................SCAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMM...DO Not Buy their fake calls product of 1lac 5lac 10 lac prize money..they are cheater....