For those who bought with full information, it was an informed choice. But problem is, most people did not make an informed choice.
I first attended CM sales pitch almost 2 decades back, in 2006. Those days they used to give “lucky draw coupons” at various malls in NOIDA, basically to get the contact details of the people. Then they would call claiming that you have won a prize and to collect it, you need to visit their center, will spouse (insisted and repeated multiple times). At the center, there would be a large number of segments, each with a small table, with loud music blaring in the background to distort concentration and logical reasoning of the visitors. The sales person particularly targeted the female companion, painting all sorts of rosy pictures while only giving semi truths and half truths about the so called “rules” or “restrictions”. The pitch would continue in a loop for a considerable time till the persons are mentally exhausted. Then they would come up with a “once in a life time” offer, written in a slip of paper and would insist on signing up then and there, without giving them any time to properly think before making the decision. If this plan fails then they would try to emotionally pressurize, particularly targeting the lady of the family. Definitely not a clean, over the board way of doing business. In the end, I refused and walked away, as I could make out some of the “restrictions” in built, despite all their attempts to smokescreen them. But yes, we did get a 2 night stay voucher for one of their property, which upon visit, I found to be not so value for money, given the charges for food and amenities that we had to pay, vis a vis the services offered.
We, again visited their center at Kolkata sometime in 2010, this time as my wife insisted on going “just for fun”. I found their tactics to have become more brazen, with even more pressure tactics and emotional blackmailing. But wife came back with a complementary dinner set.
So OP must have been lucky to have been fully explained all the rules and regulations and restrictions to make a wise, informed, well considered choice and he has been able to get the maximum benefit out of his investment. Good for him. But my personal experience indicates that most people are deliberately misled into signing up, without giving them the full details.
