If you have been victimized by either a timeshare resale firm or a timeshare resort, add your complaint below.
Timeshare Scams and Fraud
Several Timeshare Resale Prospectors - Premier Consulting Inc.
Company Name: Premier Consulting Inc.
Company Address: 13900 County Road 455, Clermont, FL, Clermont, Florida
Company Phone: 321-888-0027
Sales Person: Jonathan Prescott
Sales Manager: George Batson
Additional Names: Claudia, supposed assistant
On 7/1/13, received a phone call from Jonathan "Tucker" (real name Prescott) telling me they had found a buyer for my timeshare. They even had a closing date 7/12/13, but he was only the underwriter and needed us to send $998 to defray closing costs until the day of closing when we would regain that $998 back along with the asking price of our timeshare. Wow, all sounded legitimate, right? I proceeded, allowed them to send, via email, the contract we were supposed to sign. Received the contract, read it, the only thing that was totally agreed upon in that agreement was that we would pay them $998 with no promise of any service being completed on their part. The verbage in the contract asked for information about our timeshare, aliases (other names) we have used, social security information, home address, telephone numbers etc. Had we signed and sent this information back these crooks would have been able to basically steal our timeshare. Also spoke with management at our timeshare and they said they had never heard of these people nor had they spoken to anyone named Jonathan. Another big thing that threw up red flags was that the money had to be into their bank account by the end of the day. I played along with this as well, just to see what would happen. They gave me bank name, routing number and account information for me to put money directly into their account, they would not accept a check. I called them back to let them know I found a way to put the money directly into their account and Claudia started giggling uncontrollably in the background and Jonathan supposedly dropped his headset. I have not and will not speak to these people again. I knew right then and there this was definitely a scam. Once 5 p.m. rolled around and Jonathan realized the money wasn't in his account, and never would be, the phone calls began. The first was a message telling me my address, I took that to mean he was going to come hunting me down at my address. I chuckled at that one. Then the next message was telling me my email address. Again, ok. On July 2, 2013 was when the real fun began. Received the first call at 9 a.m. with 3 to 5 calls within a 2 minute time period every hour on the hour. Finally unplugged my phone and had some peace. Plugged my phone back in on July 3, 2013 and again the phones calls (3-5 at a time). Finally on the afternoon of July 3rd I picked up the phone and sat it down on the counter. Husband and I stood their listening to what they were saying. There were 3 people (2 men, 1 woman) talking about drugs (specifically red bud marjuana, I don't know about drugs so have no clue what this is so would have no reason to mention it except that's exactly what we heard) and how they were going to spend their 4th of July weekend. Once they realized that the phone was no longer ringing on their end Jonathan said "Fu**ing Bi**h" and hung up the phone. Needless to say, the phone calls haven't stopped but at least he isn't calling 5 times in 2 minutes now. It's once every hour.
And surprise, surprise, we got yet another timeshare prospector calling us to sell our timeshare. Guess what their going price was, oh $998 and guess where their main office is located, you guessed it Florida.
Oh and if you look up the address given for this Premier Consulting Inc. it's at a UPS box store in a mall (you know where you can rent a box to receive mail?). And this company is not listed with the Better Business Bureau. And it has only been a company supposedly since February 2013.