Timeshare Scams and Fraud

The salesman, Sean, convinced us they would take care of all the reservations and registrations for the "low cost" 1 week stay, 250.00 for the room and 75.00 each for the airfare. He put through the reservation for the room but did not register us on line. The airfare is done with "some other company" so if the registration isn't done in 90 days the offer isn't valid. It is 13 days over the 90 days so no discounted airfare! The registration was supposed to have been done when we bought this and he told us he took care of it...NOPE

I am lodging my complaint here to raise awareness about what’s going on at Vida Vacations.I made the mistake of believing what my Vida sales rep told me.

When I was looking at Vida, I told them we rarely used our 2 weeks per year that we already had with Shell Vacations. The Vida sales rep told me that this was not an issue at all, that we could easily sell our Shell timeshare through a recommended broker for cash and that this was a plan that many of their members sucessfully used. We could then use the cash procedes to replace the money we would use to buy the Vida timeshares. Plus, Vida was different because whatever weeks we didn’t use from Vida could be rented out through the same broker, which seemed like a safe bet to me.

A year and a half later nothing has happened�... Read More