Vacation Club Scam -- How To Spot Them and Protect Yourself
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- "What is a Vacation Club?"
Unfortunately, a "Vacation Club" or "Travel Club" is a fraudulent scam being used to take money from unsuspecting couples, tricked into believing they will save money on future travel. Watch how a "Vacation Club Scam" works and learn how to protect yourself from being solicited.
Story and Narration: Kevin Richberg
Original Musical Score: Michael Pestalozzi
One rule of thumb to follow is to never commit to something right at the presentation. Tell them you want to go home and think about it first. If the offer is legit, the presenters should be perfectly OK with it. If the offer is now or never, it's obviously a scam.
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Good advice for all life’s decisions
Except that everyone from your local supermarket to your car dealership and furniture store have today only sales. You wouldn't expect to go back tomorrow and get the same deal would you?
Let myself get scammed into a contract with Occidental Vacation Club. Don't know which I hate more at the present: Their sales people that wasted a day of what should have been a great vacation, or myself for letting them talk me into a membership.
I feel just like you right now. I just want to find a way how I can get out of that by myself, without getting frustrated more. Are you still in this nightmare?
Thank You Kevin. Absolutely brilliant and 100% True. I have experience it. Travelers from US or Canada should be aware of when they go to vacation in Caribbean.
great, I just attended one promised 90 minutes but went 3.5 hours and it spans across our lunch time. you want my money and made me skip my lunch??? HELL NO
Great video Kevin - this reminds of the timeshare scam!
Terrific: really details the specific points these companies use to try to separate you from your money. Viewers should circulate to family members - the older generation are the ones targeted by these scams and they need to see this video.
you can cancel many states have a contract rescind law that grants about 3 to 7 days grace period to change your mind
Look at all of the upset scammers here defending the vacation clubs! Sooo glad we had tbe gut feeling to not sign up! Look into how they operate! They basically convince a bunch of people to pay thousands of dollars a year just to be able to book a trip through them on a website that has hidden fees to even use the website and then on top of it you can never travel to places that you want to go or with unrealistic dates. False advertising on top of hidden fees it’s just ridiculous!!!
Was there Nov 25 - Dec 1st. Yes, the resort was beautiful and yes, the 1hr timeshare presentation (that was 5.5hrs) was full of lies and very smarmy sales people. Aryana; Denise; Patricia; and Ibrahim are the names I can remember. It spanded 5 locations with 5 different people. It was so unreal that I have pitched my experience to 20/20. Read the reviews and attend NO presentation. They even put a charge on our room as a 'voluntary' donation to a school which I had them remove. Imagine if I had not checked. Run people!!!
All that was said on this video is true, i had the same problem, but with a company called Unique Vacation. Lost forever USD 1000. The company is still operating in Grand Oasis Cancun Hotel, no legal action no fine nothing, wtf world?
me and my gf signed up and now they are saying we have to pay 4K to get out of it what do we do ???
@@devonfertil1767 ignore them, they won’t sue you and would t stand a chance in court if they did.
Just got back from Punta Cana. All the resorts seem to be doing this exact same thing. Told me a weak long Caribbean vacation to a luxury all-inclusive resort cost $600. Left out the part where I have to buy airfare, additional points, and yearly fees on top of that $600 dollar price. Glad I didn't fall for that BS.
Jerry Buckhorn same here got back Thursday, were they called travel smart
Shayan Sharifi that name is not ringing a bell? I want to say it was diamond rewards and H10 at the 2 different resorts we visited. I imagine there are a ton of these hi pressure ripoffs.
We always go to them for the free stuff ! Our max time is 2hrs and we start asking to leave so they can wrap it up and give us our free excursions , dinners , shows or spa ! We go super early the day after we arrive ! These suckers can go to hell
Can't remember the name of the travel club that tried to scam me, but they sounded a lot like this, constantly lowering the price, and telling me that I could pay it, even after I had assured them that I couldn't. It was a horrible experience.
Almost forgot. Every state has a cancellation period. It's called a recission period that ranges from 3 business days to 2 weeks. It's required to be on the documents and almost all states have to be bonded. Wouldn't you think that the Post Office would shut down every single travel club being that this all goes through the mail? That would be all kinds of federal crimes.
Yikes…what a scam. Wife & I attended a presentation at Steel Hill Resorts. What a rip-off. We were offered a $300 BBQ, gourmet knife set and travel bag as gifts to attend their time share seminar. At the presentation we said no, no, and no again, followed by a never. Well ..we left with our prizes though: a tiny charcoal BBQ without a lid; the knives were cheaply made Wal-mart quality; and the travel bag was a fold-up bag made of wind breaker material with one zipper over the top. Total value of all 3 gifts estimated at say $19. We never used any of it ..but discarded them immediately. Good thing we said no at the presentation. The quality of the gifts perfectly reflects the quality of the “deal” that was to good to be true.
You wanted free crap.
I just signed up for Club Newport I want out it is within the three days. I called the salesman today and he said he would cancel it I don’t trust him At all, going to try to call the company tomorrow.
Omg did you canceled how?? I just signed up with them too and it was 5 days ago .. please let me know..
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You must be one of the salespeople.
What happened to us was incredibly similar - so similar that either the company was the same or it was a spawned copy of this one. Even the letter looks exactly like the one we received. Luckily, we acted within a day to rescind the contract and we actually got our money back. You may not be so lucky.
How to do so within a day
I know someone who recently attended a more sophisticated sales pitch presented by Beyond Xpectations Inc. at the local Marriott hotel. They referenced SaveOnResorts.com as the company that would eventually provide the promised travel services. A BBB.org search of SaveOnResorts.com had about 21 complaints all of which were rebutted as "we provide a technology service, we're not related to the marketing company that sold or offered you such and such". In the power point verbal presentation, they were told that by joining the club they would save thousands on travel costs, because the company, much like Costco, leverages the hundreds of thousands of members and through this buying power they can get discounted pricing. They were convinced to spend thousands that they would presumably save in future expenses and they signed a legal document. Upon review of the legal document they signed it states: "The Network Benefits are NOT obtained or provided from the cooperative purchase of services …. Licensee is NOT obtaining ownership or participation in any discount buying organization … nor is the primary purpose of this Agreement the right to purchase goods and services in the future." My investigation shows that the future benefit, which they had been convinced was worth thousands, would not be anything more or less than they could have achieved via travelocity or priceline searches, it would have taken them 100s of years to achieve the benefit they had presumed to have been purchasing, if ever. I would consider this a fraud business. Certainly they are taking much-much-much more money than they will ever return in value.
Educating individuals about how to book their own amazing travel adventures, and that it's NOT as expensive or as difficult as they think, will make these charlatans' pitches obsolete.
Sadly, this has been going on for years now and it takes a lot of effort to shut them down and uproot them.
This shit happened to me in Istanbul two weeks ago, when they stopped us in "via land" offering all these free trips...etc,
they took us to a yacht and started doing all the thing mentioned in the video, and stupid me signed a contract for 7200 USD and gave them 100 USD, after going off the yacht I kind of woke up and went to my best friend google and found out that was a scam, I showed the contract to a lawyer and he said that they can't do anything they were just trying to get the most out of you, I'm from Iraq so I apologize for my English
We got scammed 10 years ago with Classic Holidays, we are still trying to find a way out of it. Even though we have paid the $13000.00 that it cost, we still have to pay a yearly fee and cannot cancel our membership, and even if we die, the debt (annual fee) will pass on to our kids. We still have 30 years on our contract.
There are definitely legitimate travel clubs. Everybody from your location supermarket or furniture store to car dealerships and mattress stores have today only deals. You wouldn't expect to go back tomorrow and get the same deal would you? Sales is a profession not a scam. Half of what this guy is saying is lies and the other half is hyperbole.
If you don't like presentation DONT FUCKING GO.
You probably sell these scams urself.
Yes, Dream Vacation Club in South Africa is a total scam.
I've been a member for years and it has never been worth it, In fact it has been a nightmare.
Yes. Ridiculous statement at the end of that video.
I'm actually in a travel club in which I have traveled 12 times in two years and I've cross referenced every one and could not find it cheaper anywhere else, let alone the amazing experience on the trip.
gary baitson yes there are scams in all biz I also have a club that is unbeatable.
Gary Bait son. 😂
I'll tell you; the deal is just if you are a traveler, if you don't have the money to affort it, is ok you can stay home, and like somebody else tells you, no body will give your money back, you will consume by using the service men, example if you buy a coke you'll ask for a refound to the store? it doesn't make any sense, if you buy a car you'll go with Nissan or Chrysler asking for your money back? and them "if you have a house" just in case: you'll do the same? On the past people change things to get other so, if i wanna change my carrot for your orange, we changed and at the end of the deal you will want your orange back? But you still having my carrot? anysense?
a vicious fraud
We signed to global exchange vacation club.. does anyone experienced to terminate or cancel their membership? We passed the rescission widow.. pls help..
Is there a solution? Can we sue them?
We were just scammed by an almost IDENTICAL scheme but fronted by a group called "Ultimate Excursions" or "Coconut Club Vacations" who originally contacted us posing to be Golden Nugget Casino (a very well known regional entertainment venue). All the paperwork has different entities listed on it, which claim to be in business since the 80s. However their FB and web pages were only started in June of this year. But, you can't find out any of that in advance because they won't let you have your phone on during the pitch, they hide the real names of the companies until the presentations/paperwork are started, and you have to buy on the spot to get the "deep discount membership".
We paid 3995 for a membership and then couldn't even call back the number the customer service representative called us from. I just feel sorry for all the future people who will give away their hard earned money and get nothing in return.
+Rebecca Ann -- I'm so so sorry this happened to you. What was your outcome, were you able to get your money back or contact the authorities?
+Kevin Richberg - My husband went back to the Casino and asked for a refund while I contacted the credit card company to put in a dispute while the charge was still 'pending', six hours after the transaction. We informed the Casino that an active scam was running on their premises and we contacted the local police.
That all happened just today (Sunday), so we're still not sure what the outcome will be. I will update when we find out for sure.
+Rebecca Ann -- Can you tell me what area Ultimate Excursions was operating out of. I received a letter from their San Luis Obispo-affiliated scammers. If I had more free time I'd go to their talk just to see how it plays out.
+superseriousperson Hi there - yes they were operating out of Gulfport area Golden Nugget Casino in a conference room booked with no signs or anything to indicate where to go...
Sorry I must have stated in my comment that I referred only to "vhi" Vacation Hub International. I'm sure some people could get a proper deal.
I’m from Australia I only do them to get free stuff but there isn’t many around anymore yes it’s a scam just say no stick to your guns and get out lol
How can I PM it email You regarding travel club scam? Thanks
Great video
lol common its not for broke people lol. so you if you dont have the cash. dont do it simple as that.
Where is the scam? ''they take your money and you can't get it back?'' thats called a purchase you bozo. Why would you expect to get your money back on a purchase.
Tlc resorts big time scam