Timeshare Cold Callers

Latest Cold Callers List August 2010

• 1-2 Buy 
•  Avant Guard 
•  Bonus Weeks 
• Direct Marketing 
• El Solucion 
• Euro Marketing 
• Euro Media 
• Excalibur 
• FH Publishing 
• GK Travel 
• Global Travel Networks 
• Go Group Leisure 
• Golden Resort Sales 
• Groupio Oceanio 
• Hansard Worldwide 
• Henry Jones Ltd 
• Holiday Vacations 
• I.T.R.A 
• Inside Europe DDE 
• Key Properties 
• Kimberley Limited 
• Lawson Estates 
• Marina Leisure 
• Mason Goodwin 
• Nicholas James Property Auctions 
• Oakdale Initiatives 
• Odyssey 
• Offshore Sol 
• Owners Action  
• Owners Solution 
• Personal Group 
• Prime Locations Marketing 
• Pro Travel Solutions 
• Resolve Marketing 
• Secondary Marketing Consultants 
• Selling Time 
• T.H.E Group 
• Thornton Estates 
• Timeshare Auctioneers 
• Timeshare World Net 
• Triple Options 
• TS World 
• Westminster Consultants

Below is a list of companies who have undertaken cold calling to timeshare owners:

• Alpha Property Management
  
• Arriva Destinations
  
• A-Solution
  
• Avant Consultants
  
• Avant Holidays
  
• Avant Holidays
  
• Bollacord International SL
  
• Bonus Weeks
  
• Bridgewater Consultants
  
• Bumblin Bee Ltd
  
• Capital Properties
  
• Centrica de Europe
  
• Cinderella tours
  
• Club Class Concierge
  
• Compare your holiday deals.com
  
• Concepts Vacation Club
  
• CONNECTIONS 6
  
• Diamond Resort International Resale’s (NO Association with Diamond Resorts International)
  
• Diverse Marketing
  
• End Vacations
  
• Euro Marketing
  
• Excalibur
  
• Exclusive Concierge Services Club
  
• Extra Weeks
  
• Fantastic Place
  
• FHP Holidays
  
• Finally Sold
  
• First Field
  
• First Legal Services
  
• Five Star Solutions
  
• Freedom Vacations
  
• Future Group Administration
  
• Geo Demographic Market Research
  
• Gift Company
  
• Global Travel Network
  
• Global Reservation Services
  
• Go Group Leisure
  
• Go Group Leisure
  
• Golden Globe Logistics
  
• Golden Resort Sales
  
• Golden Resort Services
  
• Golden Sales Services
  
• Greystone Leisure
  
• Hamilton Property Services
  
• Hansard Worldwide
  
• Hansard Worldwide Ltd
  
• Heritage Group
  
• Holiday Group Sales
  
• Holiday Vacation Group
  
• Iberian Dream Homes
  
• Incentive Leisure
  
• Inside Europe DDE
  
• Inside Europe DDE
  
• ITRA
  
• ITRA
  
• Keno Media
  
• Key Property Advisory SL
  
• Kingfield International
  
• Marshall Solutions UK
  
• Martins Broker
  
• MONTE MAR Estates
  
• Norfolk Leisure Group
  
• Oakdale Initiatives
  
• Odyssey
  
• Odyssey
  
• Overseas Shores S.L
  
• Owners Action
  
• Owners Solution
  
• Owners Solutions
  
• Pacific Partners
  
• Peters Brokers
  
• Prestige Management
  
• Pro Travel Solutions
  
• PSO Travel Solutions
  
• PSO Travel Solutions
  
• Ramirez and Ramirez
  
• Regal Group
  
• Resort Equity
  
• S.H.P Holiday Sales
  
• Sales Deck
  
• Secure Leisure
  
• Secure Leisure
  
• Selling Time
  
• Selling Time
  
• Sol Bookers
  
• Starting Point
  
• Starting Point Marketing
  
• TGL Financial
  
• Timeshare Relief Inc.
  
• Timeshare Resale Consumers Association
  
• Travel Connect Services
  
• Travel Worldwide Warehouse
  
• T-R-C-A Timeshare Resale Consumers Association
  
• Triple Options
  
• Triple Options
  
• UK Timeshare Solutions (not Timeshare Solutions an RCI Points Vendor)
  
• USC Ultimate Finding
  
• USC Ultimate Finding Company
  
• VENTURA 1
  
• VGV Group
  
• Vintage Promotion Services
  
• Visions Solutions @ services Pte Ltd
  
• Viva Sol Resorts.com
  
• Westminster Consultants
  
• William Bailey Consultants
  
• William Bailey Property Consultants
  
• William Bailey Property Consultants
  
• Worldwide Network Group

   

Typical Scams:

One of the current scams that TATOC has received a significant number of complaints about is the resale scam. Timeshare owners are being targeted by fraudsters who are offering to sell their weeks for them.

The victims are being asked to pay upfront fees for any number of reasons and then hear nothing more from the scammers - no sales, no refunds. Others are duped into parting with upfront cash - often hundreds or even thousands of pounds - only to find that the supposed buyer has dropped out of the deal. They are then lured to a foreign country to meet a "corporate buyer" who is interested in buying their week. However, when the owners arrive at their destination they usually find that the corporate buyer is really a sales person who subjects them to a hard-sell presentation for a bogus Holiday Pack. TATOC strongly recommends that consumers only deal with resale companies who are affiliated to TATOC and/or are members of the Resort Development Organisation (RDO).

How to stay safe:

TATOC recommends that consumers are extremely cautious of resale companies that:

• Make an unsolicited contact i.e. a cold call
• Request any form of upfront payment. Common reasons for an upfront fee are: deposits, administration fees, bonds of trust, surety against withdrawal, insurance cover, validity survey, land registry tax, certificate charge and VAT
• Assure you your payment would be fully protected under laws governing the use of Credit Cards.
• Ask for your credit card, debit card or bank details but assure you they will not take any payment.
• Suggest they can obtain an unexpected or unrealistic high price.
• Say they have a buyer waiting to buy your particular timeshare product.
• Ask you to send them your Ownership Certificate.
• Apply undue pressure for a decision within a short time period.

These people have unlimited imaginations when it comes to stealing your money so don't trust them - no matter how convincing and reassuring they may seem.

This list will be updated on a monthly basis. 

For more information contact: info@timeshareassociation.org