Marriott – Talking telephone numbers
November 25th, 2020
Sometimes it’s easy to think of timeshare in an insular manner, it’s not until you take a look at the bigger picture do you get a feel for the monstrous power that is the timeshare industry. On perusing a recent article published in relation to the Marriott group, it strikes you that the numbers just […]
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Repugnant new timeshare fraud. Previous victims being systematically retargeted by fake timeshare law firms
November 24th, 2020
Fake timeshare law firms illegally pay big money for ‘data’ of timeshare owners (the owner’s name, the club where they own, their contact details etc). The fraudsters use this data to contact members and offer to help free them from their contracts, thus escaping the burden of the hefty annual fees. These fake firms unfortunately will take the money but […]
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Down the timeshare rabbit hole – Owner spends £35k+ with 24 different scam companies trying to exit
November 24th, 2020
Here at the Timeshare Consumer Association in recent years the majority of help requests have been from members wanting to safely exit their timeshare contracts. Steven Warner, a timeshare contracts expert with European Consumer Claims (ECC) explains: “People are just not signing up to what is being increasingly regarded as an outmoded system of holidaying. With new membership revenues dropping the […]
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Azure Scammers Exposed
November 23rd, 2020
Here we go again. Most readers know that Azure Malta went into liquidation earlier this year, however with the efforts of the joint liquidators a new management company was formed, being Vacation Club Services Limited (VCSL), to act as the new club manager. VCSL in turn has established a company in Malta called VCMS Co Limited, […]
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Timeshare owners dispute Puerto Calma’s humanitarian explanation for sheltering illegal migrants
November 23rd, 2020
Recently, we published an article covering the humanitarian actions of Holiday Club Canaries in housing African migrants. MD Calvin Lucock explained that he was putting politics aside and that Puerto Calma Club was doing the right thing by helping people in need. Calvin also explained that the owners would lose nothing by the generosity shown to the […]
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Strong reactions over housing of illegal refugees in luxury Canary Islands timeshare
November 23rd, 2020
Refugees being housed in luxury accommodation while paid up members unable to visit. A top quality timeshare complex in Gran Canaria is controversially being put to use as temporary housing for the wave of refugees arriving on the island on boats from North Africa. Over 17,000 North Africans have illegally made their way to the Canary […]
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Disney Resorts hike maintenance fees
November 20th, 2020
At a time when many timeshare owners are disgruntled with the fact that they have had to pay their full maintenance fees for 2020 despite having lost their holidays due to the pandemic and other associated reasons, there is more bad news for some. 2021 maintenance fee invoices are currently being sent with the potential […]
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Has COVID sealed the fate of the timeshare industry?
November 19th, 2020
Coronavirus conditions highlighting flaws in the timeshare industry Timeshare membership has rules: You buy into a club or system, you commit to taking holidays and paying an annual fee to do so. This annual fee is usually about the cost that non-members would pay to stay in the resort at which you own at the […]
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Seasons Holidays Pushing Out Elderly Timeshare Members To Cash In On Demand For UK holidays?
November 19th, 2020
Elderly owners at Slaley Hall being ‘pressured’ to pay £15,000 AND give up their memberships. Are parent company Seasons PLC trying to cash in on pandemic demand for British holiday accommodation? Tim Norman and his wife Fiona paid £11,500 for a week´s timeshare in a luxury 3 bedroom lodge at upmarket Northumberland spa hotel Slaley Hall in 2002. “It was […]
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The timeshare exit minefield
November 13th, 2020
Can you safely escape an unwanted membership? Timeshare ownerships have been around in one form or another since the 1960s, and hit their heyday 20 years later. The 1980s bought an explosion of eye catching headlines: high pressure sales, touts harassing tourists on the Spanish Costas, drugs, violence and celebrity gangsters laundering money…. This was the high watermark of financial […]
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