51, Report:
#373602
Posted Date:
Jan 21 2009
Vacation Travel ClubDestinations Unlimited For Vacation Travel Club lying, cheating, scam artists Branson Missouri
About three years ago we were visiting Branson Missouri and went to a meeting of the Vacation Travel Club there. We were treated to a fancy presentation where we were quoted very low rates for cruises, flights, hotels, condos, etc. anywhere in the world if we were to become members...
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Categories: Travel Services
52, Report:
#317986
Posted Date:
Jan 15 2009
Utopian Travel - Vacation Travel Club Scam Beaverton Oregon
Travelers say club took them for ride
Complaints - A Beaverton firm is accused of bogus offers and threatening members
Friday, March 07, 2008LAURA GUNDERSON The Oregonian Staff
Utopian Travel's sales pitch -- free airline tickets in exchange for sitting through an evenin...
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Categories: Travel Services
53, Report:
#370019
Posted Date:
Nov 08 2008
Global Travel Group Vacations SCAM ... Don't miss this one Scottsdale Arizona
It was a very long, and a high pressure presentation. We heard everything they had to say, and we asked questions. We did buy into the vacation travel club (suckers).
After all is said and done, we get our free, all inclusive Mexico getaway vacation for attending the presentat...
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Categories: Travel Services
54, Report:
#388364
Posted Date:
Nov 06 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club - CRI Bait & Switch Club Bransom Missouri
While on a trip to Bransom, MO in September 2008, we stopped at a travel information center which was located in a quick trip/service station in Ozark, MO, where we were offered two free nights in a Bransom hotel in exchange for attending a presentation by Roark Vacation Travel Club...
Entity
Categories: Bait-and-Switch
55, Report:
#385610
Posted Date:
Oct 28 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club Aka CRI Aka Branson Hotline Refused to date stamp/sign/initial acknowledging acceptance my letter of rescission presented to them Branson Missouri
We purchased a $99 vacation from Branson Hotline for 3 nights in Branson. We got a $30 gift card to Olive Garden and two show tickets. In exchange we had to attend a 90 minute presentation given by Jane Roden for Roark Vacation Travel Club on Sunday, October 26, 2008. The benefit...
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Categories: Travel Services
56, Report:
#376115
Posted Date:
Sep 26 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club Roark Club Resort Interval Scam Branson Missouri
Buyer Beware or Roark and CRI (Club Resort Interval) !!!!!! I really wish I had access to the Internet before I got shafted by Roark Travel and CRI as well. And yes, if it sounds too good to be true it's probably not.
PLEASE - The seminar is mis-leading, they do not disclose all...
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Categories: Travel Services
57, Report:
#367557
Posted Date:
Aug 27 2008
Vacation Travel Club Cannot follow through on promises, Called two times for prices and all the Good Deals were gone Benton Harbor Michigan
Joined VTC in June. Called for hotel rates in Memphis, TN and they did not have any Good Rates there. Called back at the end of June to set up a group to go skiing in March '09 and got the run around about groups. Was told that as long as I was with the group I could take the people...
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Categories: BBB Better Business Bureau
58, Report:
#340793
Posted Date:
Aug 22 2008
Vacation Travel Club Joining the VTC was a TOTAL RIP OFF Benton Harbor Michigan
After joining the Vacation Travel Club I tried to book a vacation in Hawaii. I have copies of e-mails and documented phone calls. e-mails were slow or never answered, phone calls were slow to be returned or never returned and when I began to see a pattern of poor service I asked f...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
59, Report:
#364249
Posted Date:
Aug 18 2008
Vacation Services Of America MO/ Vacation Travel Club MI-Clint Sweet/ Dee Wroblewski/ Thom Wood Unreturned phone inquiries; misleading promises of saving travel money; refused cancellation; total misrepresentation; pressure to sign and pay with credit card Branson Missouri
This merchant is a total scam...rude representatives with high pressure tangled messages, routine stalling in verbal concerns, unreturned phone calls, total misrepresentation in procedure to cancell then absolute refussal to accept proper cancellation.....by offering another scam! ...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
60, Report:
#363998
Posted Date:
Aug 18 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club BEWARE --- Roark Vacation Travel Club is a Scam Branson Missouri
A year ago we got a call back from filling out a form at the Kansas State Fair for a opportunity to win a trip. We got a call from Roark Vacation Travel Club (VTC) saying we didnt win the primary prize but we did win the secondary. This should have been out first clue.
The stipu...
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Categories: Travel Services
61, Report:
#155332
Posted Date:
Jun 29 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club - Jane Roden lied to us, too, ripoff Branson Missouri
We have been thoroughly checking this travel club out and find that what we were told about this travel club is not true. For instance, this morning we called the Vacation Travel Club for a quote for a Carribean cruise sometime in the first two weeks of December.
The Vacation ...
Entity
Categories: Travel Agencies
62, Report:
#328253
Posted Date:
Jun 09 2008
Event Planners / Vacation Travel Club Lied about company name, purpose and reputation. We were unable to go into meeting with saving information. Benton Harbor Michigan
Copy of our letter:
Event Planners
9943 E Bell Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Dear Event Planners/VTC,
Please rescind our Membership Agreement, dated 4/19/2008 (enclosed with this package).
The reasons we wish to cancel/rescind this membership are as follows:
When we book...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
63, Report:
#315428
Posted Date:
Jun 06 2008
VTC Vacation Travel Club Scam, Ripoff or What? Bento Harbor MICHIGAN
I received a call from a relative that they were invited to come to one of their seminars in a different state. I began doing some research before they attended and found that they used to be in Branson Missouri. A Rocky Pridgeon is owner and has been arrested for two counts of obta...
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Categories: Travel Services
64, Report:
#337372
Posted Date:
Jun 06 2008
Vacation Travel Club/ Event Planners update to last report Kansas City Kansas
This morning I spoke with the owner of Vacation Travel Club regarding my original report/complaint about Event Planners/Vacation Travel Club. Here is an update:
My original report details the presentation experience, but I will reiterate the basics: was told on phone that busine...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
65, Report:
#325058
Posted Date:
Jun 06 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club Possible Scam Branson Missouri
My wife and I visited their seminar last summer. They offered us a membership for $2995. They gave us the leather packet with their CD etc. then when it came 2 months later I attempted on their website to book a flight. I was able to find a flight on their website for a reasonable c...
Entity
Categories: Travel Agencies
66, Report:
#322271
Posted Date:
Jun 06 2008
Roark Vacation Travel Club NOT SATISFIED WITH $4000.00..HAD TO GET MY $167.90 MORE BRANSON Missouri
We were a VICTIM of this Roarke Vacation Travel Club in Branson, MO last year.. we tried to get our money back since we were MISLED..LIED TO... in buying this travel club.... we even wrote the STATE ATTORNEY for MO but ended up we had to SUFFER and ACCEPTED the fact that we cant get...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
67, Report:
#332016
Posted Date:
May 11 2008
Vacation Travel Club/Vacation Travel Services Of America Don't let this happen to you!!! Branson Missouri
In October, 2007, my husband, myself and two friends went to Branson for a long weekend. We were offered discounted show tickets to sit through a spiel about great savings for travel. Determined that I was not buying a time share, the presentation was a real grabber. Mike Messeng...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
68, Report:
#324136
Posted Date:
Apr 07 2008
Vacation Travel Club And Vacation Services Of America misleading promises and information. Branson Missouri and Benton Harbor Michigan and internet
They made offers of discount airfare, not true. they made offers of Condominium rentals at reduced rates, not true. That your purchase of membership was all you have to pay. Not true, There was a $25.00 charge every time you wanted to book a condominium regardless of whether you g...
Entity
Categories: Resorts
69, Report:
#280046
Posted Date:
Oct 22 2007
Roark Vacation Travel Club Not sure it is a Rip Off but smells to me of a scam Branson Missouri
I am not 100% sure that it was a rip-off but certainly think it fits a scam of some sort to which my wife and I had a very close call i.e. feeling I was getting scammed, while on Vacation in Branson with one of the Vacation Clubs in the area, namely Roark Vacation Resort.
This is...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
70, Report:
#279663
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2007
Vacation Travel Club (Director Victoria Hayes)Vacation Travel Club (Director Victoria Hayes), Roark Vacation Club Went to Branson Mo this pass July, We were offered $50 to sit in on a great idea, thought why not, 1st mistake. presentation showed how vacation club could save us money if we joined, we did!! greatest mistake, $3,000.00!! we've tried to book 3 DIFFERENT vacations have completed none!!!! Benton Harbor,Branson Missouri Michigan
This pass July we went to Branson, MO, While in a Wal-mart we were approached by a lady that promised us $50.00 if we went to a presentation. we thought why not? Now we know why we shouldn't have.
We set through the presentation, and because we love to travel, the ideas of goi...
Entity
Categories: Resorts
71, Report:
#261478
Posted Date:
Jul 18 2007
Roark Vacation Travel Club Beware of Roark Vacation Travel Club! Ripoff Branson Missouri
My husband and I recently fell for this. We are now being jerked around by Roark regarding a refund.
We are going to file a law suit and we are going to contact an investigative reporter at our local media (and their affiliates in other areas) to see if they will do a story warn...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
72, Report:
#261038
Posted Date:
Jul 16 2007
Roark Vacation Travel Club, Jane Roden Today only price Branson Missouri
Three of my family members and I went to the Roark Vaction Club presentation. It was explained that the membership would cost $8000 plus but the program sounded too good to be true so we considered it while waiting for Jane Roden, the sales associate to come speak with us. After hea...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
73, Report:
#258805
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2007
Roark Vacation Travel Club BEWARE...ROARK VACATION TRAVEL CLUB... Great Ripoff Branson Missouri
Just want to WARN everybody.....When in Branson, MO... the Bible Capital as described by the RVTC (Roark Vacation Travel Club)... PLEASE..PLEASE ....Stay Away from RVTC....Don't FOLLOW our footsteps...DON'T BE FOOLED ....
SALES REPS will LIE to you to sell their Travel Club...PL...
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Categories: Travel Services
74, Report:
#241896
Posted Date:
Jun 29 2007
Vacation Travel Club - Infinity Travel ripped off again! ripoff Johnson City Tennessee
we bought into vacation travel club on 4-26-03. we were told and also have this information on paper that we would get condo weeks at myrtle beach and other places for 399.00 a week. this just didnt happen. they made so many claims and we have not been able to use this at all. w...
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Categories: Travel Services
75, Report:
#250424
Posted Date:
May 25 2007
Roark Vacation Travel Club DECEPTION...FRAUD = Roark Vacation Travel Club Ripoff Branson Missouri
After reading some of the REPORTS in this website..... we now knew that we're not alone... in short ..our story is pretty much like the rest of those who were victimized by this company. We were convinced to be a member because of the very nice presentation and specially when I inqu...
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Categories: Travel Services