Jun 25, 2008 03:59 PM
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Well, I have seen many reviews written about ICICI bank & its rampant cheating. The baseline for ICICI bank’s way of doing business & logging profits is just one:
*Conditions Apply.
*I won’t write a very long review, but refer to the photo of this bank's advertisement:
Seeing this, I fell in the trap & proceeded to book 2 tickets for a weekend show.
The 3 pointer Terms & Conditions dispalyed on front page seemed OK to me.
However, I wasn’t able to avail the offer since it required that I book 4 tickets at a time from which I would get only 1 ticket free.
My fault: I failed to note was the link to fine print:
“Click here to read all Terms & Conditions.”
Voila! That’s where most of the masala lies.
From the list of some 20 odd terms & conditions, this one is most interesting – one has to be awfully free to go through all this:
/*Offer varies depending on the card type:
Buy one get one free for ICICI Platinum, Signature and Titanium card holders (A user has to purchase a minimum of 2 tickets)
---Buy two get one free for ICICI Gold card holders (A user has to purchase a minimum of 3 tickets)
---Buy three get one free for ICICI Silver card holders (A user has to purchase a minimum of 4 tickets)*/
Further, here’s some more masala:
For Silver Card Users:
The user shall get a maximum of One Free Ticket in the same purchase transaction. The One Free Ticket shall be given out of 4 tickets purchased in the same purchase transaction. Thus, if the customer books 5 tickets, he can avail of only 1 free ticket then, and has to pay full price for the other 4 tickets. The offer is not available if only 3 cinema tickets are booked.
Most interesting is the last line:
Incase of any disputes, Bigtree's decision will be final.
I leave it to the reader to imagine the kind of dispute resolution the private companies like this one will resort to.
