Considering buying a timeshare – Read on
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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Timeshare EU – The 14 day killer
Ever since the EU timeshare Directive of 2008 was adopted by member states into their own statute law, countries at the forefront of timeshare, such as Spain have had to tow the line. The 14 days we refer to is basically a cooling off period, in other words, a period that allows would be buyers […]
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Hunter Rock and Venture Compliance – Two peas in a pod
Following on from our recent article concerning Contract Debt Relief Centre and European Debt Recovery, as we stated, we have established that these two outfits are merely lead generators for Hunter Rock Associates and Venture Compliance, both of whom we will delve into later but first we thought we would expose a seriously disgusting scam […]
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Timeshare Canada – Ontario proposes fix
Recently we found out that owners of timeshare contracts in Ontario, Canada could be getting some government assistance to exit their agreements. This comes as part of a new public consultation on updating the Consumer Protection Act. In basic terms, the plan put on the table for consultation is proposing that all timeshare owners old […]
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Why can’t I give back my timeshare?
A simple question TCA get asked all the time, with a simple answer, you just can’t but why should this be? We will attempt to answer the question with a little more fact-based reasoning. Firstly we need to divide the timeshare product into two parts, the old-fashioned fixed or floating week contract and the current […]
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Hilton Grand Vacations – An interesting interview
An American online site, Skift published an interview with their journalist, Sean O’Neill and CEO of HGV, Sam Gurnik. HGV are rapidly becoming one of the largest players in the timeshare industry especially when taking into account their recent acquisition of Diamond Resorts. In many respects Sam Gurnik is just confirming the way the timeshare […]
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Catching up with the current scams
Given the current level of enquiries we are receiving there is a definite pattern immerging with the same basic stories being told. We thought that this would be a good opportunity to look at the common scams that being perpetrated. The first question to answer is how on earth did these scammers get so much […]
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Timeshare and insolvency
Judging by the number of enquiries we are receiving, probably stimulated by maintenance fee season. There appears to be some confusion surrounding those European timeshare companies who have placed certain of their group of companies into administration. We thought we would take the opportunity to clear matters up. In the world of timeshare, it is […]
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Getting your money back from scam companies
This week the newspapers were full of stories surrounding what has been described as the largest fraud the UK has experienced. More than 100 people have been arrested in the UK’s biggest ever fraud operation, which brought down a website police describe as a “one-stop spoofing shop” used by scammers to steal tens of millions […]
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Timeshare USA – Legacy resorts, problems and solutions
For many European owners it’s likely that they have never heard the term “Legacy Resort”. To explain in simple terms, a legacy resort is generally a small resort which in many cases is owner operated and is not part of the much larger timeshare groups such as Wyndham or Hilton. Put another way, the resort […]
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