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Malaga Airport Club La Costa Timeshare Scumbags

It probably is carried out all over the place,but just as you are about to board the plane,these scumbag touts ask you for your surname and postcode details for "survey" purposes and guess what.......2/3 weeks later you have won a free holiday......If you see a scumbag timeshare thiefs neck, then Grabbit While You Can.
Political?....I dont do Political....well,not much!
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  • I was collared by one in the street - took my details and surprise surprise :rolleyes: I won a 7 day holiday in Europe for 4 people. I googled the 0800 freephone number the caller gave me to claim my 'prize' and came up with Club La Costa Timeshare - remember you don't get anything for nothing unless its on MSE! :money:
    "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is."
    "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe" :idea:
  • rsykes2000
    rsykes2000 Posts: 2,494 Forumite
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    Grabbit's not really the place to post rants about scammers.
  • Sorry :embarasse
    "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is."
    "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe" :idea:
  • ednotdave
    ednotdave Posts: 393 Forumite
    antenna wrote: »
    It probably is carried out all over the place,but just as you are about to board the plane,these scumbag touts ask you for your surname and postcode details for "survey" purposes and guess what.......2/3 weeks later you have won a free holiday......If you see a scumbag timeshare thiefs neck, then Grabbit While You Can.

    So you gave your personal details to a complete stranger in another country....:rolleyes:
    I love a nice juicy "kebab"... ;)
  • ednotdave wrote: »
    So you gave your personal details to a complete stranger in another country....:rolleyes:

    Exactly what I was thinking - especially in a foreign country renowned for timeshare!
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • hollydays
    hollydays Posts: 19,812 Forumite
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    Airline surveys are notorious for this too.They give you the impression they are interested in your opinions, while you are on the plane,but sell your details on to these kind of companies so they can target you.
  • OK Call me stupid.
    I got the same thing, I went to their meeting and got my free meal AND MY FREE HOLIDAY.
    I stayed in a lovely 5 star apartment for a week with great service and all it cost me was to spend the best part of a morning having breakfast and making sure I just said NOOOOOOOOO
    Ow an the £30pp admin fee
    CALL ME STUPID BUT IT WAS A BLOODY BARGAIN!!!!!!!!! (unless you decided to say yes but will power is what it is LOL)
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,081 Forumite
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    That's what I heard as well. It's all completely above board and if you know that you can say 'no' then you get a genuinely cheap holiday!

    I gave them my details a few years ago but couldn't be bothered to make the trip to the seminar that they invite you to beforehand and I was dubious as well. If they invited me again, I'd go!
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • Yeah I loved it, it really was a nice place and I had a great holiday, Im clever I now just book other peoples timeshares off websites and have the same holidays without all the services fees ;-D
    People dont knock timeshare's if you are a tight !!!! stubbon person like me they are a bargain
  • KipKip_2
    KipKip_2 Posts: 315 Forumite
    my dad "won a free holiday for 4" from the touts in malaga airport! we stayed in a really really nice resort in Fuengirola(sp) all flights and accomodation free then all my dad had to do was go to a meeting on the last day with them trying to sell timeshare - he just insisted on saying no and that was it!


    had a great time!!!

    but yeah they're dodgy ones (probably most of them!) but there are som decent ones!

    jsut gotta say NO!
    I have learnt from my in-debt days....never again!
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