So not even twenty four hours ago my parents became members at global connect ok so this might be a little too early to review or judge their services as I haven’t experienced anything.
Yes the scam started after my mom was approached by one of their outsourced employee at big bazaar(kothrud) which according to me is a very well planned address to target the middle class Indian. So my mom shared her contact details with the guy who asked her to fill a coupon.
The next day my parents get a call from the travel agency(global connect bhavdan) stating that they have won a prize. So my parents being ignorant(like most of you guys who were also scammed) excitedly went to collect their prize and when they reached they had a complete set up of a sales ready to take their money by promising them great deals on various offers. So how the scam works they have a decently sized room with six to eight tables which is mostly occupied by their employees who are acting to sell their packages to their employees with a couple of customers like you and I, so the whole thing looks legit. Less do we all know what a ride they are going to take us for, so the employees name aKSHA139y shinde who very nicely and sweetly was ready to work his magic on my parents, and viola it worked after just one hour my parents were convinced, he has promised them some amazing deals so we just need to wait and watch if and how these deals come through which I doubt will happen after reading most of your reviews.
So yes they swiped their Cred824it card for 1, 00, 000 rupees. And reached home excited to tell us how they had just gotten amazing deals. So after doing a Google search on global connect in less then 10 minutes I was convinced that this was nothing but a scam, so I asked my parents to read the reviews and even they were convinced that they had just been conned. So hoping to resolve this matter we call the Cred824it card company to see if there was any ways to cancel the transaction but were informed that the transaction had already gone through and the only way we can recover the aishwaryasingh23ment is by filing a dispute. Or by asking the company in this case being(global connect bhavdan) to write a letter stating that they would cancel the transaction. So the next morning first thing my parents went to their office in trident bhavdan to see if they could cancel their membership and guess what to no surprise this is where all your reviews started becoming a reality. Yes my parents were mistreated like most of you guys, one of the guys Vikrant who claimed to be the CEO or owner(wearing his fake Louis Vuitton belt which I found hilarious to which I even smiled to myself in my mind) bluntly refused to cancel the membership and was very rude to my parents. So couple of hours after my parents not reaching home I called to check if they were alright. And from their tone made out that they were disappointed and were getting nowhere. So I reached their office at bhavdan and created a ruckus when I reached there using abusive language and calling them out on their scam to their faces to which thing got a little out of hand but no fight, I was not angry at my parents losing their hard earned but disappointed at how they were being treated. so any ways wish I had taped the whole scenario so that I could post it online and send it to my friends in the media, especially when my mom’s gangsta side came out when she poured a glass of water over their contracts and told all of them to keep the money as she knew there was no cause arguing with the employees and that she has lost her money. On our way out vikrant who was very polite now came down with us and said that he would give us half our money back(50, 000 Rs) and half we had to use as membership which I thought would have been fair had they offered it to my parents in the first place before all the chaos and mistreatment, So I get home and make a few calls too my journalist friends who I know since im a chef and work with them when they come to review my STEAMPOTRESTAURANTs trying to share my story and also get some advice on how I should deal with this situation. So the first thing everyone tells me is to file a complaint with the local police. Which my father goes ahead and does, but after reaching out to the cops obviously there is nothing the cops can do as there are no details of us using their service since it’s not even been twenty four hours and so the cops refuse to lodge an FIR or case.(Something seems fishy here if anyone has any legal advice please share I’m going leave my contact at the end) any ways my dad is also getting in touch in our lawyers. Ok so if any of you people who are reading this review and are going through the same fraud I request you guys to please get in touch so that we together can expose this scam. I think us as responsible consumers and Indians should be able to fight for our rights in this day and age through the use of social media and media and get to the bottom of this scam, and try and help people from being cheated.I will keep you guys updated on the current events on this matter.