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Read this folks! You can hardly afford to join a fraudulent packages vacation club and be taken for a ride in this bad economy. While I recommend a legitimate packages vacation club, a number of discount travel club scams run rampant in this country. As one closes down, another phony packages vacation club pops up. And it could COST you thousands of dollars!
Gullible people see their hard-earned dollars THROWN away forever! These con artists lure people to 90-minute travel presentations that feature beautiful pictures of exotic packages vacation destinations and PROMISE you amazing discount travel club packages.
Con Job Travel Presentation
Perhaps you know the routine. You enter a nice-looking facility, and the receptionist greets you with some wonderful-tasting cookies. You sit and wait, and an extremely friendly individual comes and leads you to a beautiful room with spectacular travel photos.
A good-looking charismatic man starts the presentation by asking everyone their occupations and their travel experiences. He shares with you his family background... perhaps the son of a "missionary" and that he has traveled extensively.
He presents the company's credentials without a reference point... which amounts to meaningless.
As excitement electrifies the room, he shows slides of exotic destinations... Africa, Europe, Mexico, Australia and Hawaii. He promises you 70 percent off on vacations all over the world.
At the conclusion of this presentation, a high-pressured salesperson aggressively tries to persuade you to buy the packages vacation club membership.
Typically this salesperson explains the club's no-return policy, and by law he says the company's required to not offer one.
Huh?
You can picture in your mind what I'm about to reveal to you next. Of course you must recognize a white lie when you see one. Yes, the fraudulent packages vacation club wants to hook you before you discover you've been ripped-off.
After joining the packages vacation club, with an initiation fee in the thousands, the salesperson hands you a booklet of all the discount travel club packages. You drive home all excited, your next vacation dancing in your head, and you picture in your mind all those beautiful vacation savings club destinations.
Then reality HITS you hard. You browse through the booklet and discover that none of those vacations are offered, they're offered at full retail price, or each time you attempt to book a vacation savings club trip, you find it unavailable.
You also discover a number of torn or stained pages in the booklet... a clear red flag the booklet had been returned many times. You demand your money back, but the vacation travel club reminds you of the no-return policy.
Scared? You should be.
This leads to the million-dollar question: How do you avoid packages vacation club scams?
Keep Your Temptations in Check
Let me enlighten you with this:
Leave your checkbook and credit card at home. Kill any temptation to buy today. You will create a sounder mind during this cooling-off period.
Plant this in your mind: A great deal today remains a great deal tomorrow. With any legitimate travel vacation club, think it through... research the heck out of it!
Seek out information from the National Association of Attorneys General and the Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection Division before you commit to any packages vacation club.
Free or Not Free?
Don't buy into the word FREE... rarely does it mean free. One vacation savings club argued that it uses the word "complimentary" because it doesn't mean free. Wrong!
The office of the Attorney General defines complimentary as "given free as a courtesy or favor."
One former vacation savings club member learned the hard way what free means in the world of travel club scams:
"The free cruise proved to be elusive," she said. "I filled out cumbersome paperwork three times already.
"The requirements included that we select a cruise that was at least 90 days away, and that the selected dates (you could write in two) be a minimum of 30 days apart.
"There were no dates to choose from -- just a request that you fill in the form with a request date of your choosing. Each time, I received a notice that the date of the cruise was not available."
Pay By Credit Card Only
What if the discount travel club only accepts checks? Let me tell you a little story about me. I once searched for a website provider online and selected a man who only accepted checks.
When things went south, I demanded my money back... about a thousand dollars. Despite his promise of returning my money, I got stiffed!
Lesson to be learned: Only pay by credit card so you can dispute the charges. If the packages vacation club doesn't accept credit cards, run for your life! Plain and simple.
Read the Contract Carefully
Take the contract home and read it carefully. Don't sign away your right to rescind the offer. Yes, this might be illegal, but why go through the hassle of hiring an attorney. If you accept the no-return policy, you may miss the three-day window allowed by law.
Plus, look out for the fly-by-night travel vacation club. You may discover it in business one day and out of business the next. You will kiss your money goodbye forever!
The Better Business Bureau Bias
Don't allow yourself to gain this false sense of security. On the contrary to many people's favorable opinions of the Better Business Bureau, a number of complaints run rampant of it being bias for its members.
While it perhaps varies some from city to city, don't be surprised if nonmembers contain much lower grades.
Too Good Equals Not Good
Finally, remember the old adage: "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."
So be careful folks. Don't believe everything you hear. Thoroughly research any vacation savings club you're considering. If you would like information on the packages vacation club that I recommend, join my newsletter... see the address below.
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