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Subject: To All Victims


Author:
Heros
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Date Posted: Thu, Jan 25 2007, 15:07:55

This is my story that I think worth sharing to all people and to warn people of those ill and evil doing Timeshare CONpany in Singapore.

I brought a Timehare from XXX company a couple of years back. Two to three years back, this company have closed down.

I keep paying the MF to the resort and had been using their facilities almost every year. Nothing to shout about.

A few year later, XXX company called up. Saying that I am able to trade-in my timeshare with cashback in 5 years for additional top-up of $XXXXX.

Under their hard-selling tactics and the greed of $, I stupidly signed on the dotted line without reading the fine prints on the contract.

I paid the deposit and a few months of instalment payments until I received a letter of payment notice from my previous resort.

I was shocked. Shouldn’t it be transfer to the XXX Company when I trade-in for their new membership? I run through the contract content of XXX company.

There was nothing state about the trade-in non the resort name of any kind in the contract but only a premium discount offset from the total amount. And that the cashback is an option with a fee payable, not as entitlement where the salegirl had told me earlier. I went down to their office immediately.

The salegirl was told had resigned and I was been attended by another lady. She claimed this is their standard way of administration in the contract and that she is not able to reveal anything about the cashback unless I pay up the balance. What the CRAP!

I was flaming and about to walk out when this lady called me again.She was telling me that their company have some arrangement with XXX bank where the client will have interest-free for six months if they apply for the loan facility with the bank. And that I can use the loan facility to pay off the balance in one lump sum. What a BRILLIANT idea!
So that the bank will chase after me instead of them if I can’t pay?

They are all suckers until your last penny. I stop instalment payment to them thereafter and started to receive their reminder letters for payment and not long, lawyer letters threatening to sue me if I do not pay them.

I went to CASE. They told me to stop payment to them while they write to them about refund and termination. All these are in vain as the contract states as non-cancellable.

This issue was dragged for a good 3 years. During the period, I have many correspondents with my resort counterpart (it is still under my name though it has been ‘Transferred’ when I traded-in), asking whether they have receive any monies from XXX company and if the membership has been transferred. All is negative.

I forward all these mails to CASE while they wrote demanding letter to XXX company for explanation why was the transaction not done even after a long period of time.

The reply took weeks to come and is always those crap excuses, where I feel they are buying time hoping that I will lose my patience to follow up.

I am very persistent and wanting CASE to wrote letter for demand of explanation. Recent, XXX company finally agreed to refund 70% of my money as they could not produce evidence that the transfer and MF have been processed for my resort membership.

Though I am confident that I can get back 100% of the refund if I pursue further, I would rather settle it fast cos the money with them is not alot. Just take it as I have donated to NKF but the money went into other person pocket!

For those people that is having those Timeshare member with ‘tangible’ resort and those Club member without ‘tangible’ resort, do not think of selling off or trade-in for cashback. The cost price of this Timeshare is only a few hundred bucks in the UK Resale Market. No one would buy a Timeshare from you that is tenth to hundredth times more that the market price. The worst is the Club membership. If the company went bust, your membership will also went bust. Unlike Timeshare member, the resort still operates even the sales company went bust. Just like the case of mine, the resort is still operating as of today.
If the company tells you they can sell it at a good price for you, then you are probably gone into another scam.

Just wrote a letter to your resort stating you want to give up your resort membership will do, it's FREE!
But do not expect any money back.

And from those ex-staff of these CONpanies, 90% of the money collected from the customer will transferred out of Singapore in less than 24hrs leaving only miserable 10% to pay for the overheads. Some of the staff salary have been held back because they couldn’t get more sales or not able to collect the instalment payments from their clients.

Most of the Directors of these CONpany are Ang Mohs while the slave workers are mostly Singaporean. They will also pay handsomely to their General Manager who is also Singaporean. And when things goes wrong, they will be the scapegoat while these Ang Mohs could run away freely with their pockets filled with our hard-earned money.

For those staff working in these CONpanies reading this mail, please wake up your idea and search for your soul. Leave the company as they got not career path for you.

For those victims out there, be persistence and do your own homework to collect evidences. CASE can be a powerful media if you provide them all the facts and evidences just like my case. And do not pay those CONpanies any cent from now. They do not dare to bring you to court as they themselves know that they are doing. If they ever bring someone to court, all the worms will pop out from the can just like the NKF case. Therefore ignore all their laywer letters, they are just scaring you.

If everyone is aware of their ill-practices and no such human greed on ‘free gift’, then there will be no demand for such companies to exist!

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