Apex Asia Property Investors, a disposal offer in connection with an investment in Phuket.

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

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Apex Asia Property Investors has started cold calling timeshare consumers with an offer to dispose of their timeshare.

Apex Asia makes it appear they are not cold calling and claim to have spoken to the consumer “months ago” but most consumers do not recall this conversation at all nor the name of Apex Asia.

The offer is connected to an investment into the 5 Star Luxury Hotel Lakeside Phuket by Yoo.

With a minimum of £14.950 investment the consumer is assured they will dispose of his timeshare and on top he will have revenue from the investment.

Those consumers who are not keen on making any investment are straight away offered a disposal service for around £4500 per week owned.

Doing some research on Apex Asia Property Investors Ltd we can see they are registered in the UK Companies House since 07/02/2011

Their address is 104 Calverley Road – Tumbridge Wells – Kent

Website www.apexasia.co.uk and email address info@apexasia.co.uk

Contact number: 01892 538 889

The company Director David Cooper is also registered as Director of another 41 companies all related to Apex and Yoo Phuket.

Other companies such as Apex Fractional Properties Ltd and Apex Overseas Ltd were active in 2011. They would cold call Timeshare consumers as well and invite them to meetings to discuss Timeshare Disposal but in the end these meetings were as well about investments in Asia.

The responsible people behind these companies were also connected to certain developers that never finalized the projects in Asia leaving numerous victims behind.

Articles found in the press related to this:

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011/10/out-of-the-tenerife-timeshare.html

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1335672/READERS-CHAMPION.html

We would like to make clear that we are not against investments or projects in Asia. The only thing we are in a doubt about is the way these investments are commercialized through cold calls and disposal offers. Neither do we want to ignore the dubious history of these kinds of offers.

If you have been contacted by Apex Asia Property Investors, then please let us know.

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on this blog.

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Ultra Travel, the corporate buyer after the sale falls through with Half Moon..

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

The company Ultra Travel has been brought to our attention by consumers who have been dealing recently with Half Moon Holdings or HM Holdings.

This company was also mentioned previously in connection with Blue Chip.

As mentioned on this blog, Half Moon Holdings is a cold caller that claims to have a buyer for the consumers timeshare and requests and upfront fee of 1400€ to complete this sale.

Sadly this story turns out to be not true and after paying the 1400€ the consumer is notified that the purchaser has pulled out due to personal circumstances.

Refunding the (illegally requested) upfront fee does not seem to be an option but as per the agreement Half Moon sent to the consumer, they will guarantee a second resale offer for a similar sales prize.

This second offer now arrives in the name of Ultra Travel.

Although the consumer is explained this is a “corporate buyer” who is interested in their timeshare, the reality turns out to be “slightly” different.

First of all another payment is requested from the consumer to process this sale. A payment for a transfer of the original timeshare / membership into an Ultra travel Membership. The consumer is guaranteed this new membership will then be sold straight away in the same transaction.

The transfer fee is 2000€ but not to worry, the 2000€ plus the already paid 1400€ is built into the sales price and will be recovered…

The address for Ultra Travel is Apartado de Correos 173, Torre del Mar 29740, Spain. This happens to be the same postbox that Half Moon uses.

The agreement the consumer receives only mentions the purchase of the Ultra Travel Membership, and also mentions an 80€ Annual Membership fee.

Of course the agent on the phone will tell you that this has nothing to do with you as you are not keeping the membership…but from other similar operations we know better…

If you have been dealing with Half Moon Holdings or any other dubious resale company that has taken an upfront fee from you, and now claims to have the sale guaranteed through Ultra Travel, then please let us know.

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on this blog.

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Municip Principal Legal, a weird name for a weird set up!

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

A new cold calling company or supposed Legal office has been brought to our attention by the name of Municip Principal Legal.

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The person that is calling, Bradley Marshall claims to be the Court Liaisons Manager at the Malaga Court.

He seems to have information about the Timeshare Consumer and his dealings with fraudulent companies in the past. One of the companies mentioned is TD Recovery and we do not exclude the possibility that people involved in this dubious set up were also involved with TD Recovery.

Municip Principal Legal is based in Malaga at Edif. San Juan, Avda Paralelo 4, 29001 Malaga

Direct pone (Mobile) is +34 634003205 or landline   +34 952394401

The story Mr. Marshall tells from Municip Principal Legal is that the fraudulent company has been taken to court, assets have been frozen and money set aside for the victims.

In order for the Timeshare Consumer to recover the money that is due to him he will need to pay the court fees first.

These fees are around a 1000€ and need to be paid by bank transfer to:

Banco Santander, Acount name J-MPL

Bank address C/Alfonso X111 4, 29640 Malaga

Iban ES93 0049 1972 5127 9000 2501 & BIC SWIFT BSCHESMM.

Obviously this is NOT a bank account from a court. This is the bank account from an individual and as seen with many other companies mentioned on the blog, the bank is based in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol.

We can assure you that there is no such company or court office under the name of Municip Principal Legal. This company is clearly a fraudulent set up and we warn all consumers who are contacted by them.

DO NOT pay them a penny and let us know straight away if you received a call from Mr. Marshall at Municip Principal Legal with phone +34 634 003 205

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on this blog

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Agencia Inmobiliaria Astorga, the Fake Timeshare Resale Agent for the French Market.

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

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Agencia Inmobiliaria Astorga is a cold calling Timeshare Reseller that is mainly targeting French Timeshare Consumers.

They cold call the consumer with the great news that a corporate buyer has been found for their Timeshare Ownership.

This Corporate buyer is willing to pay good money for the Membership as they are buying in bulk to provide Holidays to their employees. One of these buyers is actually Zara Homes, a branch from the famous Zara Clothing Factories.

Sounds too good to be true? Well indeed and it certainly is!

AGENCIA INMOBILIARIA ASTORGA is based in calle Donoso Cortes 09, 28015 Madrid, Spain

Their contact numbers are Telephone +34 602 572 027 or +34 603 345 375 and Fax : +34 91 769 2897

After the initial contact with the Timeshare owner they proceed to send him a very official looking agreement of several pages.

We have done research on this company and we have NOT found any company registered in Spain by the name of Agencia Inmobiliaria Astorga, not on the mentioned address and not on any other address.

As this company cold calls and does not seem to be registered at all, we can only imagine that the following step will be a payment request to the owner for some kind of legal fee, Notary fee or maybe a Tax charge before completing the sale.

We certainly do not recommend this company and would advise all Timeshare Consumers who are contacted NOT to pay any money upfront for a supposed resale.

If you have been contacted by Agencia Inmobiliaria Astorga with mobile numbers 602572027 or 603345375 then please let us know.

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on this blog

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RSI Group Madrid, the cold calling Antony Piazza Lawyers

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

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A new cold caller has started strong this week by the name of RSI Group Madrid 

This company presents themselves on their website http://spantrading.com/ as specialist lawyers and “Insurance Brokers”.

But when they cold call the Timeshare consumers they actually seem to know all about the consumers dealings with dubious companies and bring the good news that the police has raided these companies and ceased their assets.

Finally the Timeshare consumer will be able to recover the money lost to these fraudulent companies and all he needs to do is send a Money Gram of €650 for a “Filing Fee” to RSI Group / Anthony Piazza Lawyers and in 14 days the refund will be done.

Money Gram? That is a very strange payment method for a supposed legal office!

Contact details for RSI Group are:

Madrid Financial District, Paseo de la Castellena 95-15, Torre Europa, 28045 Madrid, Spain

Telephone 0034 951 239 336 and email: admin@rsigroup.es

The name Spantrading has been mentioned various times in connection with other dubious companies that have taken money from Timeshare Consumers for services that have never been delivered.

We have been unable to find a company registered under RSI Group or Antony Piazza Lawyers in the Spanish Companies House.

Once again we have to make consumers aware that it is not a common procedure for a Legal Office to cold call, to ask for payments upfront and less by payment methods such as Money Gram. Adding this up to the fact they are not registered anywhere, we certainly recommend caution when dealing with this company.

If you have been contacted by RSI Group in Madrid or anybody from Antony Piazza Lawyers,with phone number +34 951239336 then please let us know.

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on our blog

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Monster Travel, Timeshare Resales on the Russian Market with an upfront fee.

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

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This company is not a new one and is connected to others mentioned on this blog such as Travel Promotions, Hollywood Marketing and Sellmytimeshare.tv

They all seem to use the same pitch, the “Booming Russian Market” and the possibility to sell the timeshare in no time through their Russian websites.

Monster Travel also uses the Russian Market as the attraction of the resale offer.

As they know very well that upfront fees for Timeshare Resales are not allowed through the Timeshare Directive, they have found though a clever way to get around this.

If the Timeshare owner is interested in selling quickly through their successful Russian website, they need to purchase an amount of “Holiday Credits” which cost between £1000 and £1500 and can be spent with Monster Travel on flights, accommodation and other Holiday products.

So far the feedback we have received from consumers that have purchased Holiday Credits with Monster Travel is that the timeshare is indeed published on the web, but no buyers have shown up.

Monster Travel has a website www.monster.travel.com registered in February 2012. The website does not really provide any information about their Timeshare Resale program or anything to do with Timeshare.

Contact details are Telephone 0845 5280 613 Email info@monster.travel.com and an address for offices in the UK and Tenerife, Spain.

The address for Tenerife is Hollywood Suite, Maia Executive Suites, Capecan Business Centre, Winter Gardens 38639 Golf del Sur, Tenerife, Spain

It is questionable is anybody will eventually sell their timeshare through Monster Travel and also if a consumer would have purchased the Holiday Credits without the assurance his timeshare would be sold.

If you have been contacted by Monster Travel from 08455280613 with an offer to sell on the Russian Market, please let us know.

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on this blog.

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Legal Release the follow up from Property Management Services…

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Consumers who have been dealing with Property Management Services not so long ago are very likely to receive a call from Legal Release.   sell_it_postit PMS

Legal Release contacts the consumers with the dubious story about PMS going into liquidation but by miracle the timeshare of the consumer was just sold before that. Legal Release was instructed to contact the Timeshare consumer who against a payment of taxes due could release the money paid for their timeshare.

Humm…sounds very dubious, and actually it is.

Legal Release Ltd is registered at the Companies House since August 2012. Coincidentally the director mentioned on the registration is also director at another company called Creative Solutions Ltd. This name is familiar to those who paid to PMS as this is the name of the company that shows on the Credit Card receipt.

Legal Release does not have a website and the contact details they provide are an email address: legalreleaseltd@mail.com and a Telephone number +44  01603 294 525

The supposed Tax charges are to be paid by bank transfer, which is an unprotected payment method and no possibility to claim a refund in case something “goes wrong”

For those who were unfortunate enough to pay PMS the upfront fee for the guaranteed resale that later on fell through, please be aware of the above as you might be on top of their list to be contacted.

If you have been called by Legal Release from 01603294525 then please let us know.

You can email us at customercare@mindtimeshare.com or place a comment on our blog.

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