Mar 14 2005
Please check out the following and maybe link it on your page
- our own personal experience. It has only recently been published
so not yet spidered by search engines but am looking forward to that day.
The saga is ongoing the latest being that we have been threatened with
legal action if we do not proceed with the balance payment – this will
be updated to the blog. - Alan
Jan 11 2005
This really should be dated 1st April -
- the best bit is the link at the right to Mark Tabbs "Visit
Our Site".
Enjoy - anon
Oct 25 2004
Its good to see Bob Trotta’s minions rushing to defend the indefensible
as the two messages, clearly from the same person, were intend to do.
But, however glamorous picture one paints of Resort Properties the underlying
canvass is still fraud.
To cover their tracks Resort Properties resort (apologies for the pun)
to suppressing free critical comments on forums even to the extent
of creating a competitor (failed) to Crimeshare and part share in another
“independent” forum.
No doubt, Mr Editor, you will get a snotty letter from some crooked
lawyer claiming that Resort Properties are whiter than white but, take
it from me, white is the last colour I would chose to describe that bunch
in Tenerife. More likley a dirt brown colour – Michelangelo
Oct 24 2004
With regard to the latest rntry under Resort Properties dated 22nd.
Oct 2004 the writer states that Resort Properties did not attend the AGM
of Beverly Hills. How coiuuild they. Thay have nothing whatsoever
to do with my club of which I am a very proud owner. They are just
the On Site resale company. They have nolthing whatsoever to do with
the very good running of our club by our wonderful committee.
Proud owner of timeshare.
Please display this message on your message board - Proud owner of
timeshare
Oct 24 2004
I write in reply to the owner who is compaining about Resort Properties
selling him some weeks for investment,plus not attending the AGM of BHC.
I have been down that road, been there, seen it had it and wear the
Y shirt.
If you dont want it, do not buy it. It is the greed of owners who want
to earn some so called BLACK money by the buying and selling of Timeshare
for investment. If it was so good why dop the rerps not buy it. They
will tell you they are not allowed but have they no friends who would buy
it for them.(perhaps they have no firends)
Are these so called investors in the real world. I have heard
all the stories being told to me by the reps. I do not believe them
and therefore I do not buy any of them.
When you do buy from Resort Properties and you complete the form it
states on the form that the buying Timeshare for investment is a speculative
venture. Why do you think they put that on the form. They are not stupid
.It is to cover themselves in the certain possibility that they will not
sell it for the price quoted to you
It is not Resort Properties that are at fault it is the greddy timeshare
owner who wants to make a quick buck by playing the investment market.
Buy your timeshare to use and nothing else. I do not want my money
to go to any salesman. I go a few times a year to all three resorts and
funnily enough they never bother me now. I must be black listed but there
is one thing for certain I have a damm good holiday.
Read wisely and conform to the instructions.
Regards. Happy Owner.
Please display this on the web site of Resort Properties.- happy owner
Oct 22 2004
My wife and I have also been conned into buying from Resort Properties
and my Timeshares have now been on sale for almost two years,having reduced
the price to what we paid for them and also having them put on a so called
priority list. We also have a friend who has bought 5 and is unable to
either use them or get them sold.
I note in your latest web page Resort Properties are threatening you
with legal action, I for one will back you all the way.One of the problems
is that we are all fragmented and unable to get together so that we could
maybe fight them on legal grounds.Recently we went to the Beverley Hills
Club AGM only to find quite a number of others in the same situation. Resort
Properties were not present, I wonder why? - Regards
Oct 2 2004
The terrible summer weather here inthe UK inspired me to purchase
a holiday on the internet. I found a company called "Let's Go Canaries"
and took their superb offer of a week in a 5* Self Catering property at.....
The Beverly Hills Club, Tenerife. They did not inform me that
it was a 'fly by' until after I had paid, in full, for the holiday.
My partner and I felt that we could cope with a morning or afternoon presentation
so we continued with the holiday. We did enjoy the holiday very much
and found all the staff at the club very attentive. However, the
Tome Share team were a different story. I have never met such objectionable
people in my life. Our presentation rep, a blond by the name of Angela
Brooke, was totally ruthless in her approach to make a sale. When I informed
her that I really was not interested then she, and her line manager, a
fellow of very low IQ, tried to physically stop us leaving the premesis.
These are British people treating their kind with such disdain it beyond
understanding. CAUTION: If you do stay at any of the Beverly
Hills resorts they will insist on your credit card number incase of 'any
breakages' in the appartment but do not believe this. I gave my card details
on arriving,2 AM Saturday morning, but after the Sunday morning presentation
I cancelled it with the credit card company. These people cannot
be trusted in any way or form. Please Beware. - Trebor
Sept 2 2004
For the information of Richard Fleming: How right you are! This is
nothing like a competition! The only thing you have to do to win
is have a credit card. Why? Because that's what they'll need for
your deposit on the timeshare they want you to buy. Here's
the way it works. You get there on Friday sometime and get shown to
your apartment. On Saturday morning all the reps are in the office at 7.00am
to get their list of clients for the week. Fly-buys (which is what you
are) are normally given to Jo Cuthill (if they're decent prospects)
or whoever else is trying to learn timeshare sales (if they're not).
At about 8.30am everyone is sent out to knock on the apartment doors,
introduce themselves and get an appointment to see them later in the week.
It's easy with fly-buys because part of the agreement for your week's
accommodation is that you WILL have a presentation. At a time that suits
Resort Properties, not you! If you refuse, you will be billed for the
accommodation. On top of all this, it's possible that you didn't arrive
until the early hours of Saturday morning so you're not in the best of
moods to be speaking to a rep anyway.
Jo Cuthill, however is a lazy bitch and quite often, as everyone goes
out, she will have breakfast and telephone the clients to make her
appointments instead of walking round as she should do. This also
explains why she is on the large side! The presentation last
two or three hours and you will be asked to buy timeshare. In case
you're half-interested then have a scheme (and that's a good word
for it) called "Buy and Try". You buy it, use it and if you don't
like it Resort Properties will re-sell it for the same amount you bought
it for. Yeah right! But they don't say how long it will take. Because
they've never done it. All the poor sods who fell for it still own
their weeks and are paying the maintenance every year. IT'S
A TOTAL CON! JUST A WAY TO GENERATE FOR FLY-BUY PROSPECTS! - One who knows.
Sept 1 2004
I am writing to inform you of a scam from Resort Properties - shock,
horror.
You will see from the link below, the company claims to offer 100 lucky
people the chance to win a luxury holiday on Tenerife. This 'offer' appeared
inviting, so I entered. This was back in April. I then received numerous
phone calls in the middle of May from the following number 0034 9 2275
0282. Unfortunately, the caller rang off before I could get to my mobile
on 2-3 occasions.
I rang the number on May 23rd to enquire, not knowing who these people
were. I was informed that "it was probably as I'd entered a competition"
and somebody would call me back within a few hours - they never did. It
didn't end here. I was called again on June 16, and again missed the call.
I finally managed to speak with a woman called Roxanne who told me I'd
got down to the shortlist and would be entered into the draw - the coming
weekend - for the luxury holiday.
I now know the company to be Resort Properties, but only after calling
the number above, as nowhere on the competition website (Tenerife Resorts)
does it give any indication that they're linked to a company with such
a checkered past. Tenerife Resorts is a Tenerife travel directory - not
sure I'd trust much of this, either, bearing in mind which company is behind
it!
Now, a number of things stink regarding this.
* Why had this company been trying to track me down in the middle of
May, long before their 'short-list' of potential winners had been known?
Clairvoyants?
* If there was such a need to contact me so far in advance of any draw,
why was my call not returned, and why the gap between calls? If I was a
genuine contender, surely there was a need to inform the competition entrant
as soon as possible.
* And when I was eventually told that I had won one of ten family holidays
- surprise, surprise - it began to dawn on me that this was nothing more
than a scam to pressure me into buying timeshare points, etc. The literature
sent through to me suggested the itinerary would include "having a personal
representative" on call, who - at some stage during the week - would show
me the many facilities the resort had to offer!
What a load of rubbish! And nowhere on the competition website does
it explain all of this. Only once you've entered, and been drawn into the
web of deceipt do you then realise that it is not all that it seems. As
a genuine holiday competition winner, one would expect just that - a holiday,
free of any outside hassle, pressure or expectation.
Tourism must be on the slide in Tenerife, if this company has to offer
this competition almost every month - or should I say timeshare must be
on the slide! Because that is all this is. It doesn't appear to be a genuine
competition, as there are too many inconsistencies regarding the methods
used. It appears to be a crafty, sneaky way of getting families over to
Tenerife cheaply, off-peak, and then going hard-sell on the timeshare.
Kind regards, - Richard Fleming
June 24 2004
Looks like Bob Trotta is heading for another accolade as Crimeshare
Sh*t of the Year 2004 - Cyn
June 23 2004
I am amazed that Resort properties have even the nerve to take legal
action against this website,dont they realise that its the very honest
people that THEY have lied and cheated that have put up the entries on
the site?
I have been through the talk at the Resort properties office in 'The
heights', and walked the walk around all the various timeshare available,
I have spoken to everyone around the pool at the Hollywood Mirage only
last November,and Resort Properties are NOT innocent by any means.
I think at last everyone is becoming aware of the scams that are running
in the 'Timeshare'industry, and thanks to Websites such as this, and word
of mouth to other holiday makers,we are becoming more knowledgable.
After all what are they worried about?if they were selling a dream
like they say they are, no one would complain, its the nightmare that most
of us end up with , that they are now worried they wont be able to sell
anymore.
its your turn now'resort properties'!!!You can have the sleepless nights
that we have had!!!! - Honest ordinary person
June 21 2004
[Our ISP received the following letter from a law firm in England -
Ed]
Dear Sirs
Resort Properties Limited
We act on behalf of Resort Properties Limited as well as Mr Bob Trotta.
Our enquiries reveal you to be the administrative contact and registrant
of the Internet website, crimeshare.net as well as the associated mirror
websites, crimeshare.com and crimeshare.org.
Our clients are mentioned numerous times within the crimeshare.net
website. As you will no doubt we aware, the number and scope of entries
relating to them are too numerous to list and a cursory glance by you at
the site will clearly reveal the nature and extent of the references. By
way of example however we refer to:-
Feb 23 2004
We were stupidly conned into buying a week of timeshare at Palm Beach
by Resort Properties in order to aid the sale of a week we want to get
rid of. You guessed it they haven't sold either week and we are a few grand
down.Resort Properties must be the biggest con in the canaries - fed up
Feb 4 2004 [updated Feb 6]
I sent you an e mail, but as I don't want my name published, I thought
I'd send this via your secure server. What I have to say relates to that
old diamond of a company in Tenerife.......You got it.....Resort Properties!
Somewhere on your site, it says Barry Fox has left the company - He hasn't,
he is still there, larger than life, and looking more like Jim Royle every
day - He is a manager now, so it seems that the more people you rip off,
the better your promotion prospects become with this organisation. Resort
Properties is run by Mark Cushway, He who drives an expensive array of
cars, and lives in a huge house in Golf del Sur - and every penny has been
dishonestly earned! Resort Properties now have a product, already mentioned
on the site, called the Holiday Investment Portfolio - It works like this
- they will tell an unsuspecting client that they have weeks of distressed
stock available, that has been returned to them through reposessions -
they are therefore able, as an investment, to sell 9 weeks of this stock
to you at 40% of the market value. They then list it for "Priority 1 resale",
add 15% to the price, which represents the investors return, and a further
25%, representing the companies commission on the deal. They can then sell
these on quickly, because they will still be listed at 20% less than the
market value - Now, we all know that the market value for a timeshare is
only what someone is prepared to pay for it, not what Resort Properties
decide it is. That's the 1st point. The 2nd point is this, if this is distressed
stock, which it isn't, then they have an awful lot of it, because last
year they sold over 2000 weeks in this manner - they must have more reposessions
than all the mortgage companies put together! and they can come up with
any number of these "distressed weeks" at any time. Suspicious? read on!
Built into the contract these investors sign, is a clause stipulating that
they cannot use the weeks they have just purchased, because they are for
resale only - Reality is they cannot sell these weeks on, because they
have been owned already by owners for many years - essentially, they are
double selling the weeks, without permission of the existing owners - How
do they get out of this? Simple, when after some time, nothing has been
sold on the investors behalf, and then they get billed for 9 weeks of maintenance,
at around 300 quid ( or 450 Euros ), this adds up to pretty near 3000GBP,
many owners will refuse to pay this, giving RP their ideal get out - they
snatch the weeks back for unpaid maintenance, no one knows the scam existed,
and some people ( clearly those who can afford to ), simply write the loss
off. Others, who will pay these fees, are lining RP's pockets again, they
will come back next year, and be met by some other rep, who will persuade
them to spend some more money to sort it all out - the initial rep must
have sold the wrong kind of stock - somewhere in this myriad process, they
will manage to get these double sold weeks back, and sell them some available
weeks at "discount" - they will then be saddled with them until they don't
pay the maintenance - or, if they are really unlucky - or maybe gullible,
whatever term you want to use, they will come back the third year and be
taken again! These people should be locked up, but they won't be - at least,
not by the Spanish authorities - for whatever reason - and there is little
the UK authorities can - or will - do. I have no idea how the RP reps (
for REP read REPTILES ) sleep at night, perhaps it with comfortable eiderdowns
purchased on the back of innocent peoples misery! As an afterthought -
has anyone heard of their new development? It's called Club Paradiso, located
just down from Calle Rodeo Dve in Los Cristianos - Pure luxury, and a snip
at 55,000GBP for one week! have a look -
- This seems to be selling in a straight manner right now, although exorbitantly
priced - but they must be rubbing their hands at the thought of the resales
potential here when it's finished - Out of Tenerife ( Thankfully
)
Jan 13 2004
we have just returned from tenerife & make the following observations
resort properties are now trying to steal all the Palm Beach Club owners
time by changing their certificates from owners to users
also OASIS radio obviously dont no or turn a blind eye to resort properties
past history of dishonesty as they continually promote them on air as (THE
GOOD GUYS )
pity the PLOD in UK wouldnt grip B T,s arse - curious
Jan 6 2004
Ran across your CRIMESHARE information while doing a GOOGLE search
on Resort Properties. We are in dire need of some direction of whom
to contact regarding this bogus resort. Purchased several units in
2000 and are continually dumping money into it. We learned too little,
too late but need some serious legal direction if anybody can point us
in that direction? We live in the USA and understand that we will
have to go abroad legally. Thanks! - B
Jan 5 2004
Cant understand why Bob Trotta got away so lightly in TSY 2003 – perhaps
Palm Beach owners havnt yet worked out what fate he has in store for them
yet – ITK
July 17 2003 Re: Resort Properties. Pig Sick is correct. Barclays in the Isle of Man is a good place to look. Try the account with the title "Ebony Marketing". That should be a good start.- jp
July 14 2003 what is H.I.P HOLIDAY INVESTMENT PLAN
IT IS AN EASY WAY TO SCAM YOU OUT OF 10,000 TO 80,000 POUNDS. IF YOU
DONT BELIEVE THIS. THEN HOW CAN A COMPANY CONTINUE TO WRITE IN EXCESS OF
30 MILLION POUNDS WORTH OF BUSINESS EACH YEAR WHEN THE RESORTS WERE SOLD
OUT YEARS AGO.
SIMPLY TAKE ALL REPO WEEKS ALSO WEEKS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BACK PERSONALLY
BY SENIOR MANAGERS FROM DISGRUNTLED CLIENTS WHO ARE JUST HAPPY TO DUMP
THEIR TIMESHARE WEEKS.
THEN GET SOME POOR PUNTER TO PART WITH AN AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR EXAMPLE
20,000 POUNDS . THE REP SAYS YOU CAN BUY 6-8 TIMESHARE WEEKS FOR THIS AMUONT
OF MONEY , THE REP WILL THEN STATE THAT HE/SHE WILL SELL THESE WEEKS AT
AN AVERAGE OF 4-5000POUNDS PER TIMESHARE WEEK .NICE PROFIT IF IT WORKS.
FACT, LESS THAN 5% OF THESE DEALS ACTUALLY WORKS.OBVIOUSLY A FEW NEED TO
WORK SO REALISTIC PRINTOUTS CAN BE SHOWN TO THE NEXT LOT OF POOR UNSUSPECTING
CLIENTS . WHEN THE CLIENT REALISE THAT THEIR INVESTMENT IS NOT WORKING
THEY WILL DEMAND TO SEE ANOTHER SALESPERSON .THIS SALESPERSON WILL THEN
CONVINCE THE CLIENT THAT THEY WERE SOLD THE WRONG STOCK LAST TIME,BUT IF
THEY SPEND A LITTLE MORE THEY CAN SWAP AFEW WEEKS AROUND AND HAVE A FEW
MORE WEEKS OF TIMESHARE. ANOTHER YEAR PASSES NO WEEKS SOLD MAINTENANCE
IS DUE AGAIN. YOU THEN GET OFFERED EXTREME DEALS SOME POOR PEOPLE GET TAKEN
AGAIN. AND SOME OPT OUT . TO OPT OUT YOU MUST SEEL YOUR WEEKS AT A LOSS
SO THEY CAN BE SOLD , AND GUESS WHAT THESE WEEKS THEN GET SOLD ONTO SOMEONE
ELSE. IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE A FAIRYTALE JUST REMEMBER SOME OF THE BEST SCAMS
ARE RUN BY ORGANISED CRIME AND HOLLYWOOD MIRAGE IS ORGANISED.CHECK SOME
OF THE OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS BARCLAYS CHANNEL ISLANDS IS A GOOD PLACE TO START.END
THESE SCAMS
PS MARK AND PAUL DONT LAUGH YOUR ON BORROWED TIME
SOUNDS UNBELIEVABLE - pig sick
June 17 2003
I ran across this site and am totally sick. Last year in June my three
friends and I (all women) went to the Canary Islands and stayed at the
Beverly Hills Heights. While we were there we were approached by an agent
for Resort Properties. We were scammed into buying into their resale program
with the promise that they would be able to sell the property before we
could get home. All together we invested about $50,000.00. A year has passed
and nothing but us paying mainetance fees and now they want more money
to keep trying to sale. Can you please help us recover some of this money
or at least make it where these people can never con another person again.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Teresa Fonseca
Nov 19 2002
Resort Properties...seem to be beyond the law.....
I have a friend working in Tenerife for a timeshare company whose job
it is to ring all owners, (from a stolen list)!!! offering them a deal...which
she admits is a con!....However they are under instructions NOT to
contact any owner of Resort Properties managed resorts!!!!....
This stinks!!!!
takenforaride
Sept 2 2002
resort properties in tenerife are the biggest cheats i know and
i have dealt with timeshare and owned and sold my timeshares i owned for
over 20 years.resort properties wanted to know the price we paid and i
said that was of no consequence to them and would they please just get
us the best present going price they could.i knew that whatever they said
they would offer us a small profit and the difference would be theirs and
our timeshare is in demand and fetching good prices.they would have consired
it maybe if we had invested £6000 in a mythical apartment for their
paperwork and then we would make a profit on the £6000 as well as
them.this was diabolical treatment of a member &owner of the club who
actually employs them and although most of the committee has complained
about them they still get away with it.
mitzi
Mar 23 2002
It must be a coincidence.
A “Colin Collins” is now Chairman of the Palm Beach
Club.
Can this be the same Colin Collins I knew at RCI back in the 90’s?
The very same Colin Collins who arranged for Bob Trotta (crooked
controller of Palm Beach) to become the very first recipient of the RCI
“Hall of Fame” award?
The Collins I knew at RCI was a large slab of lard, with
an even larger opinion of himself; brains well hidden close to his
C-of-G and a willingness to accept any form of currency (alcohol
included) to say anything his briber wanted.
Are we talking about the same man?
truthman
Feb 7 2002
RE RESORT PROPERTIES
LP PLEASE CONTACT ME AT THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL ADDRESS, I CAN HELP..............
Ben
Feb 6 2002
I have been in an investment programme with Hollywood Mirage.I lost
£15,000. Then manager John Exley advised us to keep units held
they would "turn them round 2-3 times a year" until we got our cash back.
We had no choice and have just got a maintenance bill for £2000,
as there are several small units and guess what none have been sold .We
cant bank the units with RCI because we don't hold the deeds as they are
investment properties which should keep being resold and our maintenance
refunded' isn't happening!
To add insult to injury , we can never get our phone queries answered
,they have a Doberman on switchboard!
John Exley has left, as have Barry Fox, and Dave Taylor
Seriously worried LP
Feb 6 2002
Anybody who wants to complain about RP, needs to get in contact with
Sam Gunasekera at BBC, she is with Watchdog, and would be interested in
the HIP program or other scams they have pulled on the public.
Contact her on,
anon
Feb 4 2002
Yes I am fred elliott and I do not hide under some mysterious name.
No I have nmot got a R.P. Cresit Card. Are there any about.
I do not take my friends ( How many do I have) and family on holiday
to
Tenerife or anywhere in the world.
In fact I only go to PBC BHC and HMC for holidays in my
own weeks.
I do not receive any money from R.P.
I always have and always will fight for our owners against any wrong
doing whatever or whoever the company.
To MirageOwner. Why do you not contact me direct or are you afraid
of
the truth and are unable to stand by your statements.
Waiting for your reply.
Fred Elliott
Jan 11 2002
BS, appropriate initials. Resort Properties resold over 6000 weeks
for more than 4000 owners last year. Are you seriously suggesting, that
each of those owners had to go to the newspapers to get their week sold
? What planet are you on ?
You may have had an unsatisfactory experience, but that happens in
all businesses. Mercedes Benz have unhappy clients, Walt Disney have unhappy
clients, some of them even make it to the newspapers. That doesn't make
them bad companies !
truthdrug
Jan 8 2002
Having been lied to on several occasions by Resort Properties and made
all sorts of wild promises by them about reselling our timeshare weeks
I would advise anyone wanting to do business with them to avoid them like
the plaque, and I would advise you to contact a National newspaper newdesk
with details of any cons, lies or scams you have endured from them as this
seems to be the only thing that works.
BS
Dec 21 2001
I cannot think of anything that will do more harm to the excellent
reputation of the Christel House charity than being associated with that
arch rogue, Bob Trotta.
He has the effrontery to include on the maintenance fee invoices a
“request” for a contribution to Christel House so worded that it is very
difficult for owners to avoid paying it.
Or is it an unsubtle way of getting more maintenance fees?
Perhaps, Mr Ed, you would invite Christel House to comment.
OxFord
Dec 13 2001
The question on everyone’s lips is “How much does Fred Elliott get
paid to tell lies for Resort Properties”.
Fred, for those of you who do not know him, has been an owner at, and
Secretary of, Hollywood Mirage for donkeys years. In
exchange for Fred’s public support of the actions of RP – which are almost
entirely anti-owner – Fred is handsomely rewarded.
Free holidays for family and friends, not only in Tenerife, and unquestioned
use of a RP credit card.
Fred probably earns more from RP than from his ice cream business in
Blackburn.
Perhaps someone in the Resort Properties empire might, ever so quietly,
enlighten us?
Mirage Owner
Oct 19 2001
Dear Sir.
I am seekign ny information you may have regarding a Mr Anthony Christopher
Petty an associate of Bob Trotter dating back to 1995 he was involved in
Resorts Properties and the Palm Beach club in Tenerife.
Regards Tony Davies
Aug 28 2001
Good old Hollywood Mirage is at it again. Bob Trotta has decided to
build again. What has prompted this? Lack of money? No, he's got plenty.
The Tenerife timeshare market showing times of recovery? No, it's still
in the toilet. So why? It's so he can give his crew of lying, thieving
bastards somewhere else they can buy-sell people into because the poor
sods that actually went for the non-existent Holiday Investment Pack are
getting angry. Twenty thousand quid is a lot of money. Of course the rep
takes over two thousand of that and the other eighteen thousand pays liars
like Mark Cushway and Paul Stewart or drug addicts like Dave Taylor. Salesmen
(or con men really ) like John Exley (if you can catch him on a day when
he's neither drugged nor drunk) and Steve Marginson and Shane Marcel Walsh
( who gave the poor guy that name) will all be explaining that it's all
going to be OK if only they go for this. AND IT'S NOT TIMESHARE. Well OK,
it's timeshare by another name - F!
ractionals. Please everyone BEWARE!!!! YOU WILL NEVER SEE YOUR MONEY!!!!
JP
Sept 10
A little bird suggests that Resort Properties will soon get the
tv treatment a la LBC.
RT
Like jd (below) I 'invested' with Resort Properties a
year ago and now they are saying I must pay a further GBP300 if they are
to continue trying to sell my investment weeks. I paid over GBP13,000 and
need the money. When I telephone they are very nice, but nothing
actually happens. What do I have to do to get them to keep their
promise to sell the weeks I bought?
Derek.
I 'invested' £20,000 with Resort Properties of Tenerife in
February 99.
The deal was that they would purchase timeshare at the Hollywood
Mirage and Beverly Hills Club on my behalf and resell them at profit.
The indication from their salesperson was that 'it would take a
few weeks' to get things happening but from then on all I had to do was
bank the cheques.
By June I was concerned that I had heard nothing so I contacted
them directly by phone. Since then I have been given all sorts of 'comfort'
stories of sales coming but to date nothing!
I started to investigate if there were others in my position and
there are lots. I have spoken to two other 'investors' and they have horror
stories far worse than mine and they also know of others that would not
be identified as they were embarassed. In some cases figures of £35,000
were involved over periods of 30 months. My advise to
any would be 'investors is don't do it! If anyone can
help me and others to recoup our losses we would appreciate it.
jd