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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Timeshare USA – Hilton Grand Vacations to acquire Bluegreen Vacations
News has just broken that HGV is to acquire Bluegreen Vacations for a reported $1.5B. After the recent takeover of Diamond Resorts, there seems to be no stopping the expansion programme of HGV in the world of timeshare. Bluegreen has 49 resorts across 19 States which no doubt will be merged into and be renamed […]
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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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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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Section 75 – The benefits and pitfalls
For those not in the know, Section 75 is part of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Although this section covers credit in general, for most it will come into play in relation to payments made by credit card. In short, S75 offers protection if you spend over £100 but less than £30,000 using a UK […]
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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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