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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TCA commented on in Sunday Sun
“TCA and the Sunday Sun join forces to to expose the plight of a timeshare scam victim” See below a copy of the article:
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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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Timeshare exchange – Good or bad?
The simple answer is it has to be good, but is it? Back in time of the fixed week, the product was very easy to understand and use but after a while maybe the boredom of the same resort in the same town at the same time each year sets in. If fixed week owners […]
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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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Timeshare – The power of the negative
Many years ago the author of this article held a senior management position with a large financial services company. Said company decided to introduce an annual staff appraisal programme and then put all management through an appraisal training course. One point that sticks in the memory of the author is the tutor explaining the power […]
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Timeshare can’t work
Wow, that is a powerful headline, that needs substantiating, so substantiate we will. First off we need to go back in time to the early days of timeshare and look at the product that did work. Fixed week timeshare certainly worked, at least for the timeshare owner, for the developer, well that’s a different matter […]
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Timeshare loans – Shawbrook face reality
On Friday 11th August The Times ran an article, the headline of which read: “Shawbrook warns timeshare compensation may hit £25m” The stark headline comes as a result of a Judicial Review, the outcome of which we reported on in May 2022. In short, the High Court ruling found Shawbrook and other banks broke timeshare […]
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National Trading Standards – Fighting back against scammers
TCA recently assisted Trading Standards who were helping a couple in their eighties who had fallen victim to a timeshare related scam to the tune of over £25,000. Trading Standards, much like TCA find this sort of fraud obnoxious, fraud is bad enough but to perpetrate this crime against octogenarians is downright despicable, the lowest […]
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