Royal Holiday Club Scammed me!!!
Complaint
John
Country: United States
I am writing to complaint about this company because uses false, unfair, fraudulent and misleading high-pressure sales tactics to consumers to induce into a contract by false and fraudulent representations. In the week of September 1st my wife and I visited Paradise Island Bahamas. A very friendly woman approached us in the hotel lobby and said she was a Royal Holiday representative and we won a prize for a free lunch and free activities. She called a taxi and took us to Whyndam Resort we found ourselves in a orientation that took more than 4 hours. The free lunch and activities turn out to be high pressure sales-pitch. We were told that we could go anywhere in the world whatever we wanted. We were told that membership was an investment that would increase in value. We were told that you could sell your membership and we can make money. We were told that you can rent your membership and make money without any effort. We were told that we had today and today only for this prize. We were told that we write the membership off on your taxes.. They offered discount on air tickets 50% or more|. They did not say was a contract for 30 years,. They did not say about maintenance fees/. They did not informed of the time period in which we can cancel our membership?. When I had some doubts they offered us coupons of airfare for 30 nights in Mexico (I found it hidden $99 service fee if used)'. I called many times, e-mail, and letter enclosed to cancel my membership Yazmin Gomez, Claudia Cardenas Gutierrez and Jose Antonio Elizarraraz all of them has the same answer that can not cancel my membership/. Now they are calling everyday threaten us to report us to collect agency and to Credit Bureau!.We called, e-mail, enclosed-letter they do not rescind our contract.
Comments
You might even have signed this "contract" without even being presented the complete terms they now claim are in it. The complete profile indicates it was all a con from the start, possibly even an attempt to force a shakedown "settlement" just to get out of it.
They can make all the threats they want, but the only way they can actually get your money is if you feal threatened and give it to them, they sue you and win a court judgement where you live, or they damage your credit and you pay them to remove the damage. They would have to do that where you are, not in another country.
If some debt collector in the U.S. starts harassing you, or actually damages your credit, get an attorney and sue them. Debt collectors who might collect such trash will also probably use illegal threats to do so, so you could sue them for violating FDCPA.
Numeorus threats with some deal as misrepresented as this usually means that's what they intended to do from the start, and that's all they can do. Threats are cheap, but with a con, there's more danger to them if they followed through, so they typically just harass.
Talk to a consumer attorney regarding fraud, and voiding contracts due to fraud, so you know clearly where you stand.
File a fraud complaint with your local police and the FBI.
Get a copy of the police report, should you need it to dispute attempted credit damage.
So 'RHC' -thing can only cause damage to everyone? No matter what you do? You cant complain but you cant do anything else either... you dont have tools.
E JUST JOINED AHD WHAT THEY TELL YOU IS A LOT OF LIES
THEY SAID IT WAS ALL LEGAL AND WE TALK TO A GOVERMENT REP IN THE DOMINICAN
BUT THEN WE FIND OUT HE IS NOT ,HE IS PART OF ROYAL HOLIDAY,
WE READ THAT WE COULD CANCEL BUT THEN THERE IS A TWIST[ONLY IF THEY AGREAE
STILL OWE THEM $9100.00 , WE JOINED ON THE 13 MAY 2012
CAN ANY ONE HELP
I'd like to see some Royal Holiday owners try and sell their "memberships" on Ebay and give an honest account of their experiences as a disclaimer/warning to a potential purchaser.
What would it take to start an anti-RHC revolt and get thousands of pissed-off "customers" (who are in reality "victims of a massive scam") to STOP MAKING PAYMENTS RIGHT NOW TO THIS UNETHICAL AND HEARTLESSLY EXPLOITATIVE COMPANY??!!!
to see if itbworked providing you with a better way to vacation. Take responsibility for your decision making rather than bash the salesman whose reputation you are attempting to silly.Look into the mirror , that is the problem-YOU. You need to grow a set of balls.
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They just need to show some proof, but they obviously cant
And if employees dont know anything they should make sure they put us through to someone who knows. But they never do - because they obviously cant.
We all know its not letigimate. Those who really scam us in this are not mexicans or bahamians or caribbean. They are just middlehands. And we know its a scam..