Vested 7 – An update
This story just goes from bad to worse. We first exposed Vested 7 in early July. Back then we were totally confused because as a company they had a website that had nothing whatsoever to do with timeshare, although they were cold calling timeshare owners. We published a number of graphics from their website which […]
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Northgate Financial Recuperation – Another different name but same team
We will keep this short because Northgate Financial Recuperation is yet another incarnation of Contract Debt Relief Centre and/or European Debt Recovery Services. How do we know this? Quite simple, they are using the same telephone numbers. It’s very easy to simply say to your tele sales team that as of now we are calling […]
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Barclays Partner Finance and Shawbrook Judicial Review verdict announced
Following the recent three day Judicial Review on the case brought by Barclays Partner Finance and Shawbrook, the verdict has now been published. The Administrative Court at the High Court in London has dismissed Clydesdale Financial Services Limited, trading as Barclays Partner Finance and Shawbrook, judicial reviews looking to overturn findings by the Financial Ombudsman […]
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Timeshare USA – The Better Business Bureau (BBB)
The BBB is hard to explain to UK readers, it’s a sort of cross between the Advertising Standards Authority and Trading Standards, maybe with a bit of Citizens Advice Bureau rolled in. BBB is a private non profit organisation founded in 1912. BBB’s self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, consisting of 97 […]
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MacDonald Plas Talgarth – Fancy buying a timeshare resort?
Thanks to our friends at After Inside Timeshare we report that the MacDonald resort at Plas Talgarth, located on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, Wales’s largest National park appears to have been put on the market. Knight Frank, one of the UK’s oldest and most prestigious estate agents have listed the resort for sale, […]
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What’s happening at Club la Costa?
Back in April 2022, TCA asked the question as to whether Club la Costa was slowly disappearing. Club la Costa otherwise known as CLC World seems to be morphing into something entirely different. We all know that there is an operational partnership between CLC and Wyndham which has resulted in former CLC resorts being labelled […]
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What is perpetuity?
A really simple question with incredibly complex answers. Many years ago when Britannia ruled the waves, and to a lesser extent right up to today, the annuity was a very popular financial instrument so before we move on, let’s examine briefly the annuity. Currently, a purchased life annuity is a contract between you and an […]
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Timeshare by any other name
Imagine it’s Christmas morning and under the Christmas tree are three presents all exactly the same size but in different wrapping paper they also appear to come from three different individuals. When you open the presents you find exactly the same gift inside. On the surface, except for the size, they all appeared different but […]
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What has happened to Carl James Associates?
Our sister site Timeshare Trust published a cautionary warning about this company some time ago. Of late we have received a number of enquiries from consumers who engaged the services of this company to terminate their timeshare, needless to say, such terminations never happened. Our initial investigations showed that the Companies House registration records the […]
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Timeshare V Airbnb
In articles too many to mention we have pointed out that holiday trends and styles have moved on at a considerable pace. Remember in the 70s and 80s on Boxing Day TV, not only were the store sales advertised but we were plagued by the plethora of adverts for package tour holidays offering to take […]
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