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  • Report:  #1184801

Complaint Review: Virtual Travel Group - Internet

Reported By:
Ed - Torrance, California,
Submitted:
Updated:

Virtual Travel Group
Internet, USA
Web:
virtualgroup.com
Categories:
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Virtual Travel Group is a multi level marketing travel company. I listened to their 30 minute PITCH to attract "a very select few of the many inquirees". It sounded OK, but herein lies the problem. They first stated that there were no costs to be a sales representative. Then later, it was stated that you needed to pay $79.95 and $59.95 to an MLM travel agency called Paycation. So I did some due diligence and found an article by David Manning, CEO of Xstream Travel, talking about how wonderful a company Paycation is. He clearly stated that he had no connection with Paycation, but I later found out (thru google) that he is the C.E.O. of Paycation. When you go onto the website of Virtual Travel Group, nowhere can you find any of their executive team. This is a red flag.  

Just based on the blatant lie by David Manning and the fact that you must pay $80 to start and $50 monthly makes me feel that Virtual Travel Group is another scam. My gut tells me and hopefully to STAY AWAY from Virtual Travel Group. 

 



6 Updates & Rebuttals

E Dub

Aberdeen,
North Carolina,
USA
Paycation

#2UPDATE Employee

Sun, June 14, 2015

 If you quit before 90 days you will not get commission your upline will receive commission instead and if you quit before someone signed up on on your website you won't receive commission once you put in a support ticket to close your account you will not receive any commission that is why the vendors are ignoring your calls because they don't know who you are because your deleted out the system as a travel agent and as far as being pressured to recruit people I'm personally not like thats not my style cause I know that's the hardest part and doing that could scare my business partner away or make them drop out I just send out encouraging emails and have training parties for members only on my team and the opportunity for the new people last I know how it feels to be pressured and I don't treat people the way I don't like to be treated and pressuring is not the way to do it in any business


E Dub

Aberdeen,
North Carolina,
USA
NOT A SCAM

#3UPDATE Employee

Sun, June 14, 2015

 Paycation is not a scam David Manning has a compensation plan on youtube and he says the monthly fee..the person that recruited you should have been honest enough to tell you that first of all the monthly fee doesn't come from your bank account it comes from your commission and second it takes 90-120 days to receive commission on any thing booked on your website not within days or weeks this isnt a get rich quick scheme and that's not bad because it will be a large lump sum (depending on how hard you work and go on vacation) that's why you have to be consistent on getting traffic to your page so you have more buyers you get paid weekly on the people that you have personally recruited in the business and when they start paying their monthly fee recruiting people going on vacations etc... and I'm not going to lie recruiting is not easy for most people unless you're not afraid to spend money to make money and that is the majority of most people's problems in businesses that's the main reason why they decline offers to join a business.


anonymous

Los angeles,
California,
USA
victim of this scam

#4REBUTTAL Owner of company

Thu, March 19, 2015

I signed up for paycation travel which is the marketing arm for XStream Travel last year in September or october. I sold my 1st marketing package within a week and made 50.00, however i never received the 50.00 because they keep it in your paycation acct so that you can use the money towards your 59.95 monthly membership fee.. however because my balance was only 50.00 they continued to take the full amount due  out of my bank acct. However it was so difficult for me to sell the memberships to strangers, friends or family because they thought it was a scam, and I scared everyone I knew away and even my closest friends started ignoring me. So I  was exhausted with all the time and effort I put towards trying to get members to Join.  Meanwhile the existing members were bugging the crap out of me and stressing me out because they were pressuring me to get more ppl to join when they didnt have many personal enrollments themselves..it was so overwhelming.. so I decided to focus sell travel like hotels and concert tickets etc. However paycation says it can take up to 90days to get paid your commissions when you book travel thru a vendor or if someone books thru u on your website. Eventhough golden tickets which is the ticket vendor we book concert tickets thru, told me that they overnighted my commission to Paycation the day after I bookd concert tickets for a client. SO  You only get a weekly commission if you sell the membership. Meanwhile they're taking 59.95 out of my account each month. So I decided to cancel the service. However they never paid me the 50.00 for the membership I sold or my commissions from the hotels and concert tickets I booked And it's been 4 months since I've booked the hotels. I emailed them no response. I called the number on the xstream website and it rings. And I'm going to try the paycation contact number tomorrow because they answer calls at 10am cst, PER THEir voicemail. I've called them today all day and there's no answer. It's been 1month since I cancelled the service.. Also my mom is who got me to sign Up. After 3months she never got her commission either until she called they put it in her paycation account but she never received her money.. This is a Scam! I'M A SINGLE MOM OF A 2YR OLD LOOKING FOR EXTRA MONEY AND THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME.BETWEEN MY SIGN UP FEE, MONTHLY FEE, TIME I FEEL ROBBED. AND I WASN'T ABLE TO RIGHT IF OFF FOR TAXES LIKE THEY SAID!!! BEWARE.


tgirl

Chicago,
Illinois,
BEWARE OF VIRTUAL TRAVEL GROUP AD - IT'S A SCAM.

#5REBUTTAL Individual responds

Tue, November 18, 2014

Consumers deceived by these ads are losing thousands of dollars, in addition to their time and energy. They told me I needed to pay $90.00 and $59.90 monthly. In reality, you are buying a sub-site on a larger Web site and pressured to recruit more travel agents under you.

Walk away. Too good to be true is always a scam.

Spread words around to prevent another person get victimized.


SpyGirl

North Hollywood,
California,
Yes, I would say it's a valid complaint

#6Consumer Comment

Thu, November 13, 2014

When I see an ad in the "admin/office" job section of Craigslist, I expect it to be...let me see now...oh yes!....an ADMIN/OFFICE job...NOT another MLM biz opp.

SOMEBODY is making money from that monthly maintenance fee, as well as the initial set up fee.  It does not cost $50 to host a website, so most of that money is pure profit.

Whenever there is a virtual presentation, my credit card stays in my wallet.  In fact, if I have to be SOLD on a business opportunity, something is very wrong.  If this business were truly about travel, as opposed to "recruiting", you wouldn't have to charge a dime to work with you. 

Thank you to the OP for sparing me from wasting anymore time, not to mention money.

 


Anonymous

310 4th ave S,
Minnesota,
This complaint is not qualified

#7UPDATE Employee

Wed, November 12, 2014

Everybody knows that it doesn't matter what a growing company does, there will always be complainers who jump to conclusions without fact.  

Virtual Travel Group is an ethical company, and one that any individual can be proud to work for.

Where is the rip-off?  I only see blanket (and untrue) statements about Paycation and Xstream Travel

Where has David Manning ever stated he isn't afilliated with Xstream Travel, or vice versa?  He's proud of both of those companies and his involvement and he's stated that visibly many times over.  Why would he deny that?  Who cares?

Virtual Travel Group is a group of professionals building a network of travel agents through a professional approach, and through the utilization of a strong and provent infrastructure and platform provided by Paycation and Xstream Travel.  Every person on our team is proud to have joined these incredibly innovative companies because the mission is the same - sharing an incredible opportunity with people to be part of an industry that is poised for growth.

If you have an actual complaint, based on an ACTUAL experience about working with us (which you don't because if did you would go to us first and we would resolve it without having to post untrue accusations on this site) than let's hear them.  Fact is you don't.  It would be a shame if a single person hungry for an opportunity was deterred by this baseless claim!  

Sad that someone would discourage others against something just because they have a "hunch" based on nothing at all.

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