I’m new to this - Is this call a scam?
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I then got passed to another person. However, I thought it a bit odd that, aside from wanting to know if I owned my own home and whether our combined family income was above £30k (what's that got to do with winning a prize I thought), during the conversation she also said that our names would still go forward into the big prize draw that was coming up soon. That then made me think that the original prize draw entry details had somehow been used as a means of harvesting contact details in order to peddle some other offer, maybe as an inducement to sell something else.
When I asked for my 'prize winning' to be posted to me, I was told we both had to attend in person at some local venue in Milton Keynes to receive details of the offer , and she pushed hard for me to agree a date, at which point my suspicions were aroused. In order to deflect this I said needed a day or two to sort out a suitable date. During the conversation she said we could see all the wonderful details of the accommodation online at CLCWorld.com. After a quick Google search, I immediately established they are a timeshare company, and the penny immediately dropped! A little more searching brought me to this excellent thread.
Needless to say, when they ring me again, they will be receiving a very firm, albeit polite, 'no thanks'
Hope this adds to the picture.
Rod
Elly
Lisa
Did you get your deposit back? ( silly me, i have just paid mine). Thanks
that ellyps looks like a fake post. probably written by the company. no other posts except for that one by a newbie who joined to post that it looks like
What people are saying here is all true. They cant sell you their 19 years plan in the presentation in the UK as it is illegal here hence why they have this easy package of 3 years that sounds too good to be true (and it is )
2 years ago i didnt go to the presentation in London , they asked few questions on the phone and off we went to Tenerife for a week - we had the hard sell, the visit of other complex etc... but we said no we dont have the finance and after few hours they finally let us go
this year,we went to Regent street, almost got fooled by the 3 years deal, went back home, made some quick calculations and comparasion and cancelled right away. They still refunded our deposit, we still got our amazon vouchers and we still have our week in May (this time we choose Costa Del Sol) and we had to pay i believe 90 pounds as we are going during the holidays.
For me, i take it as I pay one week for a flat for our family of 4 by spending a morning with them, now we know the drill, we know what to say (and not to say) to speed up things.
I’m fairly new to this and did have a call from that company
At first I thought it’s genuine but as I listened to the person I’ve realised it’s a scam
They wanted me to come to Manchester for a meeting which I’d have to pay for ...
So no I don’t think it’s genuine sorry ��
Got the £75 worth of vouchers, no hard sell.
Offered all that everyone spoke of on this thread.
I want to go on the one week free accommodation to Turkey, I know we will have a couple of hours of hard sell presentation, we've had it in passed but not with this company.
Anyone been to their accommodation in Turkey with Sunscape??