Why are there so many problems associated with a timeshare purchase?
The answer is very simple, it is not bought it is sold, from years of working with timeshare purchasers trying to get out of their contracts it is very clear that unlike any other product consumers will purchase they did not go out with the intention of buying. We all know the scenario; you are […]
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Club la Costa – Warning – Fake website, fake story
The inventiveness of the scam industry never fails to amaze us but this latest one takes the biscuit. Cold calls are being made from an individual named Roland Fink. The story goes that his “division” of “FRP” has been charged with the responsibility of contacting Club la Costa owners who purchased their timeshare before 1st […]
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Sunday Times covers the plight of timeshare owners
As we have reported on numerous occasions, getting into a long term timeshare contract is a very easy thing to do, getting out is an entirely different matter. Very few timeshare developers publish any form of exit strategy and those that do make the process tougher than taking part in a Royal Marines combat course. […]
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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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European Debt Recovery Services – An update
During our initial enquiries we failed to spot a website; however a site has now been bought to our attention. From a legal standpoint there are a number of issues. Firstly, there is no reference to the registration details of the company, a legal requirement. The lack of a corporate address is also very worrying. […]
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Maintenance fee debt in Spain
Much has been written by TCA on the subject of scam companies saying that you are not really out of your timeshare contract and may be liable for all the back years of maintenance fees owing. Firstly we will look at the two possible scenarios then take a look at the law. The first scenario […]
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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 – The in or out scam
We thought it about time to revisit this scam because there is a resurgence of cold calls using pretty nasty scare tactics to get you to part with money for a service that has already been completed. Before we go any further, we need to look at the scam. Rather than us going into chapter […]
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Leonardo Alvarez – Jumping on the Brexit band wagon
The creative minds of the scam world are working overtime to find new ways to get ex timeshare owners to part with monies. This scam is not new to us but it does have variations, in basic terms it goes like this. It all begins with cold contact, in this case it surrounds Silverpoint S.L […]
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