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Subject: Re: Selling Timeshare

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S Coghill

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Date Posted: 15:09:46 09/02/05 Fri
In reply to: S Coghill 's message, "Re: Selling Timeshare" on 15:00:32 09/02/05 Fri

Further reading http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,850566,00.html

ETOO is mentioned around the 10th paragraph.

>A quick search on there "whinges" page
>http://www.crimeshare.net/whingest.html came up with
>the following:
>
>Jan 30 2005
>My husband received telephone call from Veronica of
>ETOO based in Mill Hill London stating they had sold
>our timeshare week for �5,800 and which way would we
>like to be paid by cheque of by bankers draft. We
>thought great. But here's the catch - they wanted �670
>up front to cover legal fees which my husband paid by
>Nat West Advantage Gold credit card. I was incensed
>with his actions and he tried to stop the transaction
>with the bank but they could not do anything about it.
>Veronica then phoned me at my place of work. I asked
>her if ETOO was a Spanish company - answer no. I asked
>if they had dealings with Club Class - answer
>no.nothing but a pack of lies. When the package came
>the following day - guess what? it was from Spain. We
>thought we were dealing with a British company and
>therefore covered by a 10 day cooling off period. I
>sent a registered letter to Mill Hill London
>cancelling this verbal contract and demanding our
>money back. Our registered letter never arrived so the
>Post Office are looking into this for us. I sent a
>letter to the bank asking them to investigate. They
>wrote back saying they could not help as "this was a
>change of mind". How can this be a change of mind when
>we were told a pack of lies? Is there any avenue i can
>take to get the bank to change its mind or can this
>company be blacklisted? Should we take it to Watchdog?
>We await any positive reply. - Joan J
>
>
>>Hi David
>>This company are on the black list at the crimeshare
>>website http://www.crimeshare.net/list.html
>>I've come across this one before, where basically you
>>never see your so called legal fees cash again!
>>
>>>Just had a call from a company called 'European
>>>Timeshare Owners Organisation' offering to buy my
>>>weeks with a sale window of approximately eight
>weeks.
>>>Offer appears to be a realistic selling price
>>>(two-thirds of what I paid). Put them off for a
>couple
>>>of weeks while I try and find more information.
>>>Similar to a recent approach of 'legal fees' to be
>>>paid up front to make sure we're genuine sellers of
>>>which we get the fees back at the end of the
>>>transaction. Does anyone know of them or had dealings
>>>with them?, site address www.etoo.com

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