Timeshare Cold Calling (update).

Readers ought to take note of the advice which the TCA published on Cold Calling. In short we believe the following statement is as real today as it was when the advice was first published which is encapsulated in the following statement.

Cold Calling

This article might raise some eye brows in the timeshare world, however we are not here and do not exist to conform to the ways of some cartels; we exist to challenge the existing ether. 

Is cold calling” illegal, banned, or criminal and performed by scam artists, filches, pilfers and thieves?

If that is the case, why is nearly every large PLC operate cold calling,

I get calls at my home from BT, SKY, PPI Stanner Stairs (didn’t want to admit that) accident firms, Investment Houses, Banks, Mobile Phone Companies, Electable Councillors and Canvassing MP’s not to mention Reformed Criminals (who carry cards saying they are reformed) , Jehovah’s witnesses and Save the Children. The above are all “cold callers” and operate cold calling marketing. I don’t see their industry association publishing these lists and orchestrating blind campaigns do you?

This being so, it is legal, legitimate and an acceptable practice as determined by our countries laws and statutes and that’s the fact.

Is “cold calling” an irritant are we sick of it? do we wish they would ban it? I am positive the majority would say “yes we want to ban it”.

Cold calling is performed by companies how have targeted knowledge. That knowledge comes from company’s organisations and individuals who have access to or have been given that knowledge. Who gave them the knowledge, “us the consumers” free of charge.

Dealers and Users

We habitually attack the users of the knowledge yet the buyers of the information are never brought to book and never berated as they seductively deal in information, which we the consumer never thought we had given permission to use. Well the reality is we did. We in short did not read the terms.

So the dealers in timeshare knowledge are the resort’s, the re sale companies the purported consumer organisations, the exchange companies and contract release organisations, in short everyone who collates information. They have the right to pass it on (if they have told you they can in the terms and conditions).

That data is worth a lot of money and they do sell the information for copious amounts of money

The buyers of that information (the users) cold call in the full knowledge that they are offering their product to targeted consumers.

The users are then admonished by the dealers. “Kettle calling pot springs to mind”

The cold callers are buyers of a product and then “cat called” by the very people who sold them the product in the first place. If the Timeshare industry had a wish to end the cold calling they would cease and desist from selling the information in the first place.

The Legal profession

The Law society prohibits cold calling. The principle is enshrined in their organisation and in some countries particular laws ban it, so as to protect the consumers.

Unregulated law firms who are not members of the regulated legal fraternity are or course exempt and therefore ought to attract more consumer contemplation.

That said I refuse to engage in the onslaught, as on many occasions these unregulated organisations are very effective. The do not play by the sometimes long winded protocols of the legal professions. They attack and hit hard are effective and sometimes run rings round opponents.

The problem is that these unregulated law firms can be flirtatious with reality and make wild promises which ultimately flounder costing the consumer money. In short that is the risk which all consumers face when making a choice and it is about consumer choice.

For more information regarding this article or assistance in any other timeshare related issues please contact the TCA on 01908 881058 or email: info@TimeshareConsumerAssociation.org.uk