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Holiday Offer

Hi,

Just had a phone call from a lady in Dublin, apparently I completed an entry form at the Ideal Home Exhibition in Belfast and I'd been selected to be offered a cheap holiday to Malta.

She didn't ask for a commitment or money etc and has e-mailed details being the cynic I am I doubt it's for real but was wondering if anyone had received a similar phone call or had heard of the company.

Subject: Special Offers - Fortina 4* - 7 Nights
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 23:02:00 +0200
From: Map Holiday <holiday@map.com.mt>
Reply-To: holiday@map.com.mt

Comments

  • terryw
    terryw Posts: 4,396 Forumite
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    It looks like an invitation to go on a "fly-buy" to the Fortina Hotel in Malta. You will be offered this at a very low rate but have to put up with hard-sell timeshare presentation.

    It is a lovely hotel but only you can decide if the bother of the presentation is worth a very cheap holiday.

    I am a right timeshare tart and jump at the chance of these. But I am not and never will be taken in by the hard-sell.

    Absolutely not for the gullible or weak-willed.
    "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
    Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling
  • dmxdave
    dmxdave Posts: 1,607 Forumite
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    Have to say we did OK with "Freebies" from timeshare sales in Malta....but as terryw says "Absolutely not for the gullible or weak-willed."

    Be careful out there!
    Dave
  • HMorton
    HMorton Posts: 63 Forumite
    Thanks guys
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