Considering buying a timeshare – Read on
April 17th, 2024
Buying anything in life should involve an element of research. From a £100 mobile phone to a £6,000 flat screen TV, it pays to look at both the product, a market comparison and customer reviews, that way we all get a better understanding of whether we are about to make a mistake, or be 100% […]
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Research is the key to avoiding fraud
April 15th, 2024
Last month we published an article highlighting the sort of investigations you need to carry out before buying a timeshare, today we will look at the sort of research you need to carry out to avoid becoming the victim of fraud relating to timeshare sales, exits and claims. Over the past few weeks both the […]
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Canary Islands – Tourists go home!
April 12th, 2024
There is no denying that the Canary Islands comprising Tenerife, the largest island, followed by Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, with the smallest being La Graciosa, collectively they represent the timeshare capital of Europe. The majority of timeshare resorts are on Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria and it’s these […]
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Phoenix Incorporated – Another CLC cold caller
April 10th, 2024
Once again thanks to an astute caller who was approached by this company, TCA went into investigation mode. As per the title, our enquirer was called out of the blue by a supposed Legal Exec named Terry Clark from Phoenix offering a service to cancel his timeshare with Club la Costa. As per usual, our […]
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Timeshare USA – FBI New York warns on timeshare resale scams
April 8th, 2024
Although TCA focus primarily on timeshare scams concerning owners of timeshare in the UK, the USA has its fair share of problems. Timeshare fraud is on the rise and in the States resale fraud is the number one. TCA have produced many reports regarding the lack of a secondary market relating to timeshare sales. In […]
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Les Naturelles, Leukerbad, Switzerland closes for timeshare owners
April 5th, 2024
News has reached us from some rather disgruntled timeshare owners who have all stated that their ownership will be cancelled with effect from the end of this year. This presents another sad indictment of the state of the timeshare industry in Europe. According to the communication from the resort, there is no buyback offer, however […]
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Contract Advocates – A new scam company?
April 3rd, 2024
A friend of TCA who lives in Gran Canaria alerted us to a Facebook posting on an employment group in Gran Canaria, nothing unusual about that except the content of the advert. Very few companies in Spain employ English speaking tele marketing staff, and when the advert specifically had the word “timeshare” in the text, […]
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Timeshare USA – Still talking telephone numbers – Part 2
April 1st, 2024
On Good Friday we published an article concerning the unbelievable amount of profit shown in the three largest timeshare companies last trading year as measured by gross profit. Today we are still talking telephone numbers when we delve into the salary packages of some of the CEOs in the American timeshare industry. TCA would be […]
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Timeshare USA – Still talking telephone numbers
March 29th, 2024
Every year companies all over the world produce and publish their annual accounts, the timeshare industry is no different. Apart from the pages and pages of information that we don’t need to know about, there is also the most important figure, profit or loss. Recently 3 of the largest timeshare groups posted results, those being […]
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Financial Services UK or is it Woods & Woods? – Another fake Spanish court case
March 27th, 2024
How would you feel if out of the blue a court in Barcelona informed you that you had € 217,789.11 coming your way as the result of a case that you’ve had no knowledge of? As they say, never look a gift horse in the mouth. Problem starts with the fact that this gift horse […]
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