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Diamond Resorts-is it a scam?
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roughanready86 wrote: »no offence to your post antenna but to be honest the overnight stayers as the customers who stay over have certain rights that diamond resorts must obey by. There overnight stay is granted on the case that they must attend the 90 min presentation with a question and answer period of about 20 mins which within that 20 mins give the oppurtunity to buy into the club for 10000 points ranging from £1800 to £3000 depending on what extras you require. And then after this they are free to enjoy there entire stay stress or troubled free. With no further sales pitches during there time with Diamond Resorts0
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In a few more months I'm headed out to a DRI resort in Hawaii. Booked this vacation off a sampler package that cost $850 for 7000 points. I booked without any problems and got the days and resort requested.
I'm positive DRI holds rooms open at all their locations, so people on sampler packages and thinking about joining will call up to book and believe they will always get what they want, but not knowing once you sign the bottom line and become a member you will be in a different queue and won't be getting what you hope for.
Why would they need to cater, help, or support people they have locked in? You're already screwed.
If DRI was legit you could use the website to book, instead of a special number. They just don't want you in their website checking out locations, dates, and seeing how all school breaks, holidays, and other times when most people travel are unavailable.
I'm really not looking forward to the hard sell, but I'm bringing in a voice recorder and recording the entire conversation. If they have a problem with that, then I'm going to walk out.0 -
"news flash"
Diamond Resorts are offering overnight stays at both Pine Lake and Wychnor park for £49.00 per lodge that sleeps 6 people you also get two gifts as always for coming and ....YOU DONT AFTER JOIN THE CLUB ITS NO OBLIGATION
the 2 of 5 gifts:
8.1 digital camera
4 nights break for 6 people with £150 travel credit
( in the u.k of in any european resort )
£500 in cash tax free
dream cruise worth £2000 of your choice
£2500 high street vouchers for electrical goods
these are gauranteed on the day so you dot after wait weeks on end to receive them plus enjoy the full day with your family at either of the two 5 star resorts0 -
roughanready86 wrote: »"news flash"
Diamond Resorts are offering overnight stays at both Pine Lake and Wychnor park for £49.00 per lodge that sleeps 6 people you also get two gifts as always for coming and ....YOU DONT AFTER JOIN THE CLUB ITS NO OBLIGATION
the 2 of 5 gifts:
8.1 digital camera
4 nights break for 6 people with £150 travel credit
( in the u.k of in any european resort )
£500 in cash tax free
dream cruise worth £2000 of your choice
£2500 high street vouchers for electrical goods
these are gauranteed on the day so you dot after wait weeks on end to receive them plus enjoy the full day with your family at either of the two 5 star resorts
Reported as spamWhat part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
roughanready86 wrote: »"news flash"
Diamond Resorts are offering overnight stays at both Pine Lake and Wychnor park for £49.00 per lodge that sleeps 6 people you also get two gifts as always for coming and ....YOU DONT AFTER JOIN THE CLUB ITS NO OBLIGATION
the 2 of 5 gifts:
8.1 digital camera
4 nights break for 6 people with £150 travel credit
( in the u.k of in any european resort )
£500 in cash tax free
dream cruise worth £2000 of your choice
£2500 high street vouchers for electrical goods
these are gauranteed on the day so you dot after wait weeks on end to receive them plus enjoy the full day with your family at either of the two 5 star resorts
These prizes sound identical to the ones you get from free scratchcards in the Sunday papers.
The only difference is the Newspaper scam only costs you about a £7.50 phone call to get your worthless prize, your scam could cost tens of thousands of pounds.0 -
roughanready86 wrote: »"news flash"
Diamond Resorts are offering overnight stays at both Pine Lake and Wychnor park for £49.00 per lodge that sleeps 6 people you also get two gifts as always for coming and ....YOU DONT AFTER JOIN THE CLUB ITS NO OBLIGATION
the 2 of 5 gifts:
8.1 digital camera
4 nights break for 6 people with £150 travel credit
( in the u.k of in any european resort )
£500 in cash tax free
dream cruise worth £2000 of your choice
£2500 high street vouchers for electrical goods
these are gauranteed on the day so you dot after wait weeks on end to receive them plus enjoy the full day with your family at either of the two 5 star resortsPolitical?....I dont do Political....well,not much!0 -
You would have thought the company would have employed people who were more literate. I was trying to understand these gems from roughanready86 :- "YOU DONT AFTER JOIN THE CLUB ITS NO OBLIGATION"
I think that should read "You don't have to join the club. There's no obligation".
And "these are gauranteed on the day so you dot after wait weeks on end to receive them plus enjoy the full day with your family at either of the two 5 star resorts"
But I suppose that standard of English sums up the mentality of the people who work for these shysters.What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
trisontana wrote: »Reported as spam
The word SPAM is too good for this garbage. I'm kind of glad it has been left on the site for all to read. There can now be no doubt that this company and its employees are the scum at the edge of our society. One of the Mirror blogs on DRI features a brilliant piece of cant by one of their senior 'executives' Mr Patrick Duffy in which he extolls the virtue of his company in enriching everyone's lives and holiday experiences. It was closely followed by a post from a disabled person whose pleas to be released from this so-called obligation had so far been ignored by DRI. Mr Duffy was requested to publicly deal with this issue. The result? Deafening silence. They have no soul and no shame. Would Roughandready care to comment? Probably not.0 -
in regaurds to chris.s post
i have no control over who is a member or who struggles to make payments so it is not possible for me to ammend what Mr Duffy requires resolving i myself feel sorry for him but its not something i can change. I do know that people are struggling but that doesnt mean that everyone is against the company.
There is a legal terms and conditions that every single person who is a member at one point agreed that they are happy to take on for X ammount of years be it 18 month or 25 years regardless to situations they still agreed they would join for that ammount of time. So as that is the case it would be out of my control to even change anything as i dont hve a say in that as much as i would like to help certain people i.e i have already bought points personally of people on MSE to try help them and have also tried passing my own family to buy points of people on here so its not like i have not tried to do a part.
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Now as for ANTENNA calling me a liar thief and scumbag i'd love to know at what point have i lied stole or been low to anyone i suggest you choose your words what you say instead of calling me something im clerly not which i find offensive. This is a open forum which says that it is open for discussion on praise and warnings i am just having my say on what is also allowed oterwise dont you think i would of been banned from the site for what i have said.
p.s has for people insulting my English that is just lame so what i miss few words or make a few spelling mistakes but what does that have to do with a disscusion on holidays and companies absolutely nothing.
The fact remains that Diamond Resorts still offers the finest holidays in the holiday business and will always remain the leading private ownership brand in the world. with reaching almost 400,000 members and with the largest variety of resorts offering high 5 diamond quality as a standard.
Choice Simplicity And Comfort0 -
If one or two MSE members report roughandready86 to [Removed] then they will delete the posts touting for business / spamming and if it persists will ban him.
When complaining simply copy and past the offending posts or preferably post links to them.0
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