Another Fraudulent Company Investigated for Relief of Timeshare Owners

A timeshare marketing company gets an F rating from the Better Business Bureau because of their doubtful and fraudulent transactions. Creative Vacation Solutions of West Palm Beach targets timeshare owners seeking for timeshare relief.

The company hires telemarketers to contact timeshare owners wanting to get out of their timeshare contracts. They inform the prospective clients that they already have a buyer for the timeshare of the client but needs a deposit for the processing of the transaction. Once the client deposits the payment, nothing happens because Creative Vacation Solutions does not actually have any buyers. This system was disclosed by company employees who are disgruntled with the company for not paying them their salaries for several weeks.

This is not the first time that Creative Vacation Solutions is being investigated for its operations. The first time they were investigated was for hiring unregistered sales agents and operating in an undisclosed address. They were fined $17,000 for the violation.

This fraudulent company will surely pay more for this second violation. A number of timeshare owners are already calling Contact Five Investigators to help them pin down this company. And Contact Five is already doing their investigation. If you are a timeshare owner who was hoping to get rid of his timeshare through Creative Vacation Solutions, it would be best to also Contact Five Investigators to inform them of your case, and receive any financial remuneration that the company will be asked to provide their victims.

State’s Awareness Ensures Timeshare Relief for Owners

Several means are being employed by a number of vacation package owners who are seeking for timeshare relief and one of which is selling. And since getting out of a timeshare contract is not easy, these owners have the tendency to grab any opportunity that come their way to be free of the vacation package. This circumstance makes most of these owners prone victims of scams.

The awareness and concern of several states to the rights of its constituents surely provide relief for timeshare owners. In the case of Florida, the existence of its Deceptive and Unfair Practices Act and the Telemarketing Act shields timeshare owners from deceptive companies. Just recently, Florida’s Attorney General Bill McCollum has filed an injunction and a lawsuit against Universal Marketing Solutions and Creative Vacation Solutions, both Palm Beach County-based timeshare resale companies. These companies are collecting marketing fees without making any efforts to sell the units of it’s supposedly clients. The collection of these companies is estimated to be at around $4 million from a total of 400 people.

The manager of these companies, Jennifer Kirk, reportedly charged marketing fees for timeshare resale advertisements. They are doing so through online marketing and telemarketing. And since Florida prohibits the collection of advance fees for timeshare sales, the said companies are being blocked from reselling timeshares. They are also being demanded to provide restitution to customers, pay civil penalties, and reimburse fees and expenses being spent for the investigation.

It is only with the state’s power that timeshare owners are provided with beneficial means to get rid of their timeshares. Without the state’s concern for their constituents, fraudulent companies can continue on the scam schemes they plot against timeshare owners.