Timeshare Scams and Fraud

I attended a presentation on 5-21-12. I was supposed to get a call in August from PRL regarding my points and reserving points for maintenance fees so I would I would not have to pay out of pocket for yearly maintenance. The only reason I purchased a timeshare at Sunset Harbor was because of having a lot of points to pay maintenance and go on a lot of vacations for 9,000 points for each stay. I started calling PRL and Sunset Harbor in September and have left so many messages for someone to call me back. No one ever called me back.

I finally got a call on 10-23-12. This person told me this was no scam and that she would have the person in Las Vegas that handled all the points to call me back. His name was B.J. Cook. He has never called me, plus I also left messages for hi... Read More

I received a call from a pretty legitimate sounding salesperson. She knew when I had purchased a timeshare in June of this year and said that the bonus weeks that came with that were about to expire and that I could rent/sell them for $1500 each. She said I had 12 bonus weeks about to expire. She showed me an RCI page on line where you can sell weeks to friends or family and she said we could use that avenue to sell the "about to expire bonus weeks we owned". She said the units would be rented out within 60-90 days. The only thing I had to do was pay the $149.00 per unit that would release the units to be sold to her clients. She said I would not be charged until I signed the contract, but that she needed my credit card information to start the process. When I questione... Read More

We met with reps claiming to represent PRL which due to RCI court case could now legally buy and sell RCI points at minimum of 8 cents per point. Said if we bought RCI points Sunset Harbor Resort, with which PRL was connected we would have over 100,000 RCI points to turn over to them for rental, allowing us to pay for the timeshare and taxes, and maintenance on our 3 other timeshares, one of which is RCI points. Purchase price for the timeshare put on an RCI Elite Rewards card issued the day of the purchase. To date it looks like all we have done is to purchase another timeshare, join PRL for $500, and have only 31000 points to turn over to them for rental, probably for much less than the unguaranteed 8 cents per point . They do not return my calls. We now think this is ... Read More

Robinson said he had buyer for our timeshare in new hamshire. told us buyer put down $2700 but we needed to fund closing costs to be refunding by buyer at closing. he continued to add to the costs until I suspected a scam

This is a common scam. There are hundreds of scam companies like this one and World Market Events is just another one among the wide timeshare scam net. They would offer to timeshare owners to rent their property to potential buyers and would “guarantee” the deal. In my case that would be Ocean Blue and Sand from H10 Hotels. Locations are Dominican Republic and Mexico. Of course after fake contract they would ask the “monies” $989.00 up-front for Mexican Certificate Research on my property. I didn’t pay a penny and neither should you! I knew this was a scam and I know as soon as somebody makes this first payment there will be more and more requests for the “monies” under other stupid claims. These scam companies appear and disappear every day by hundreds. There are ... Read More