BEWARE- Holiday club Club Class Concierge

Laura.J_3

My mum and dad have just got back from benidorm, and have been scammed by this company. they have contacted them and told them they want to cancel. I have read that some people have managed to get their deposit back, but these were all people that paid by credit card, my parents paid by switch. Anybody know anything about going about getting a refund back?
Thanks very much!

carlover

be aware ,you go to maidenhead thinking you have a buyer.They then say they won't deal with the rogues but they have a solution.I know the sales pitch because one of the former sales guys explained it.

PolishBigSpender

Just how on earth do people actually fall for this?

M4RKM

PolishBigSpender - you have won a FREE holiday, so please give me £1000 deposit now, and £3000 pounds per year for the next 3 years to claim your FREE HOLIDAY!

Cash Only, sent to

Markymoo
PO BOX M00
England


Thanks

M

PolishBigSpender

I just managed to spit water all over my computer monitor, thankyouverymuch!

Maybe it's because I'm of a different mentality, but high pressure sales tactics have never worked with me at all. Is it really that hard to say "no" and leave?

Pollycat

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Maybe it's because I'm of a different mentality, but high pressure sales tactics have never worked with me at all. Is it really that hard to say "no" and leave?

PBS, I think it must be (for some people) that hard to say 'No'.

Maybe they go to the presentation with high hopes of a 'free' holiday and just get caught up in the whole idea of 'cheap' holidays.
Maybe they are just naive or not savvy, street-wise or whatever.

High pressure sales tactics don't work with me either.
In fact, I had a representative of a well known double glazing company (I'd had a quote from them and he rang to see if I'd made my mind up about their quote) put the phone down on me after 15 minutes of experiencing my polite but relentless demolition of his company, their product, their sales practices, their estimator, their over-inflated quotation etc.

He actually said to me 'I can't deal with you anymore, you're doing my head in, I'm going to have to put the phone down now'.
My OH was in hysterics. :rotfl:

old_motters

Pollycat wrote: »

He actually said to me 'I can't deal with you anymore, you're doing my head in, I'm going to have to put the phone down now'.
My OH was in hysterics. :rotfl:

Awesome!

I think a rule to follow in life is that if it sounds to good to be true it usually is.

M4RKM

I used to sell, so I know a sales pitch from a mile off these days.

Let me tell you this story, of how you can blag things, and still walk away without buying anything.

When in Gran Canaria last year, I went along for a "free tour" of a complex, where I could BUY my week there, and keep coming back. It was a hotel / self catering thing, and however beautiful it was, I already knew that I wasn't going to say yes. Basically, we had time to kill, and would get some free tickets to the water park.

2 hours in, and we're still not finished, I made my excuses, mainly because I was bored, but, we guessed the price, of how much it would be, and came up with excuses, credit crunch, starting own business, etc etc, and we got our free passes, and left. Free taxi there, free taxi back, and saved €50 on the waterpark tickets.

The sales guy saw me later that week, and said hello, and commented to his friend, how much of a lovely couple we were..

the most amusing thing is, the guy who asked us to go, told us to pretend we were a "couple" when actually we were brother and sister.. hilarious really, as the sales guy didn't have a clue!!!

It is easy to say no and leave, you just need to have the guts to do so

M

Pollycat

old_motters wrote: »

Awesome!

Thanks.
Actually, more on topic, years and years ago my OH filled in a form that came with colour film (pre digital camera days) and a while later he got a letter that said he'd won half of a free week in a timeshare. They sent details and it didn't take us long to work out that the admin fees were very expensive so we declined when they gave us a follow-up telephone call.

Several weeks later, I got a call from the same company with the 'good news' that I'd won half a free timeshare too.

Being a bit of a minx, I said 'Hey! It's even better news than you think 'cos my OH has also won a free half so we'd like to put his free half with my free half and have a totally free week'.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, then she said 'It's doesn't work like that'.

So I replied:
"It MUST work like that, it's simple arithmetic:
one half plus one half = one
so we want our free week". (we didn't really but I was having such fun winding her up).
Anyway, she said she couldn't cope with the conversation so she put her boss on and we went through the same thing.
Eventually, after about 30 minutes of me repeating that half + half = one, she too said she couldn't continue with the conversation. :rotfl:
Result!

kandyflossxxx

Pollycat wrote: »

Thanks.
Actually, more on topic, years and years ago my OH filled in a form that came with colour film (pre digital camera days) and a while later he got a letter that said he'd won half of a free week in a timeshare. They sent details and it didn't take us long to work out that the admin fees were very expensive so we declined when they gave us a follow-up telephone call.

Several weeks later, I got a call from the same company with the 'good news' that I'd won half a free timeshare too.

Being a bit of a minx, I said 'Hey! It's even better news than you think 'cos my OH has also won a free half so we'd like to put his free half with my free half and have a totally free week'.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, then she said 'It's doesn't work like that'.

So I replied:
"It MUST work like that, it's simple arithmetic:
one half plus one half = one
so we want our free week". (we didn't really but I was having such fun winding her up).
Anyway, she said she couldn't cope with the conversation so she put her boss on and we went through the same thing.
Eventually, after about 30 minutes of me repeating that half + half = one, she too said she couldn't continue with the conversation. :rotfl:
Result!

WELL DONE YOU TELL EM, THE EVIL SCUMBAGS!!!!:beer: