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- From: radiab@woods.ulowell.edu
- Subject: Re: Avoid this Travel Agent
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.130506.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Lowell
- References: <1993Jan19.163213.23400@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:05:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.163213.23400@linus.mitre.org>, rajiv@hilltop.mitre.org (Rajiv Kohli) writes:
- > The name of the Travel Agency is "Comfor Travel of Manhattan"
- >
- > Avoid this agency at all cost if you ever want to reach your
- > destination.
- >
- > We booked our tickets in Sept for travel on Christmas day.
- > All the time the agency kept saying was that the tickets are
- > confirmed and we will bill you only two weeks prior to departure
- > to avoid early payment. FINE
- >
- > The truth was that we were on a waiting list from Paris to Delhi
- > and back to Paris.
- >
- > How did I find out? I just happened to call Air France by
- > intuition and they clearly told me to make alternate plans.
- >
- > Then she asked for the money. I asked her to confirm the tickets first
- > and she gave me this big mumbo-jumbo about "blocks reserved" etc. FINE,
- > then unblock those seats and send me my tickets. It is only 10 days left
- > for departure. OH! as soon as we receive your payment we will unblock it.
- > But that is what she said for the deposit too. I pay only by visa and
- > when I faxed her the authorization I put a condition - "authorization
- > conditional to confirmation of flights or travel agency bears the
- > cost of inconvienence"
- >
- > Guess what! When I called she didn't want to come to the phone
- > for she was always busy - 3 days later I get a check in the mail
- > for my $300 of deposit with a note
- >
- > - "This is not the way we do business - I am returning your
- > deposit of USD 300" - signed Kanchan
- >
- > Give her my compliments and yours if you can. Her number is (212)213-1313
- > Tell her how you would avoid using her in the future
- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Rajiv Kohli Email: rajiv@mbunix.mitre.org Tel: (617) 271-3506
- > Mitre Corporation Intelligence System Integration and Support
- > 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA-01730 Mail Stop: K 306
- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- > -------------------------------------------- Play Cricket -----------------
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- I had the same experience with "RAJ TRAVELS" of New York.....AVOID AT ALL COSTS
-
- Bimal radia
- email: "radia@bcvms.bc.edu"
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