I’m new to this - Is this call a scam?

Thank you for the useful insight into this company. Received a call earlier today to say my wife, as a result of some sort of draw she'd entered at the Ideal Home Show, was a lucky winner of 7 nights free holiday self catering accommodation at a choice of 4 destinations - Orlando, Costa del Sol, Tenerife or Turkey. All that was required was for us to book our own flights and there would be no other costs. The lady on the phone kept buttering me up, saying how lovely it must be to receive this prize and that I must be 'really excited' by it and how happy she was to convey the news. My first thoughts were that my wife must have entered some kind of prize draw (I wasn't there at the time) and we were the lucky winners.

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

I’ve just received a phone call from CLC and arranged to go the presentation in 2 weeks. I’m glad I have read everyone’s posts to pre warn me what may happen. We are just going there to see.

Lisa

Hi thanks, that was the only positive response.
Did you get your deposit back? ( silly me, i have just paid mine). Thanks

EllyPS wrote: »

My partner and I have just been to the presentation. There was no hard sell. Plenty of coffee and refreshments. The presentation lasted about 2.5 hours rather than 90 minutes, but that was mainly because my partner kept going for vape breaks and reminiscing about past holidays. We had a free night in a hotel and have our holiday voucher for a week in Tenerife. We liked what they were selling but didn’t want to commit at the moment. The man and lady who dealt with us were really pleasant and didn’t try to push anything on us!

Elly