The resale company Timeshare Disposal based in Tenerife has started approaching timeshare consumers with their offer to dispose of the timeshare, and as stated on the web www.timeshare-disposal.co.uk they offer a solution to those who have “outgrown their membership”.
Timeshare Disposal is a trading name of Hollywood Marketing SL with its registered office at Capecan Business Centre, Winter Gardens, Golf del Sur, 38639, Tenerife, Spain and telephone number 0203 4555 286
They kindly offer on their web a link to both RDO and TATOC the timeshare consumer associations, but this is just a very smart way of pretending to be a “member” resale company when in reality they are not members at all.
The fact that they seem to have timeshare consumers personal details such as telephone numbers and the knowledge they own timeshare, is quiet dubious and it is questionable where they obtain the information from.
This telephone number 0203 4555 286 will also take you to the websites of Tenerife Bargains http://tenerifebargains.tv/ or Travel promotions http://travelpromotions.info which offer a large range of bonus week holidays in Tenerife, and by reading the small print it is clear these are the so called Fly Buy holidays where a consumer has to attend a meeting / presentation or otherwise pay the full accommodation rate.
These websites are also trading names of Hollywood Marketing SL and are all registered under one sole administrator, Mark Rowe, who has a large history in the different timeshare resorts on the island.
Mark Rowe actually runs a couple more websites which strangely enough are the opposite of timeshare disposal…
Resort Results http://www.resortresults.com/ where he offers his services to the timeshare resorts & developers on this web; “We specialize in providing an on or off-site sales and marketing presence for resort developers, management companies and owners’ committees.” The contact number on this web is 922 750 492 or (34)626881912
And Hollywood Marketing www.hollywoodmarketing.co.uk where Mark Rowe offers Lead Generation and Sales & Marketing. Contact number is 922 750 492
So conclusion?
We have a group of companies that seem to have activities that are slightly incompatible with each other. On one hand you have Timeshare Disposal offering a dubious service to timeshare consumers to get rid of their timeshare and never have to pay again for maintenance fees or exchange fees…and then we have the lead generation side of the company, the fly buy holidays and the sales and marketing expertise.
Question is, do the resorts / developers who hire the services of Resort Results or Hollywood Marketing know that the same company is calling timeshare consumers to dispose of their timeshare? How do they feel about that?
How many call centers do the above “companies” have? Or are we talking about one and the same telemarketer taking calls for somebody wanting to dispose of their membership and another call for somebody booking a holiday with a sales presentation attached? Have you been approached by Timeshare Disposal.co.uk?
Please let us know!
Cold Called by HOLLYWOOD PROMOTIONS with discounted holiday offer. Havving just been pressured into signing up an £11,000 contract with EZE group Paid £250 up front on last holiday in tenerrife, I asked the following questions Is this a holiday on which I will have to attend a compulsary presentation of any kind for half a day. and the reply was No. So I agreed to pay for what appeared to be a good holiday in Mallorca, a place I know very well.
I was later offered more holidays for a further payment. I asked the same question again and the answer was no. later a further small sum was asked for for the uptake period to be extended to 5 years and another free week. same question, same answer.
When I received the confirmation docs they all stated that attending a promotion for half a day was mandatory or else I would have to pay the full amount for the holiday.
I have emailed them asking for full refund just now. Don’t think I will get it, so if I took the holidays and did not attend or attended for a brief period then said not for me and left would I realy have to pay th full amount since this appears to be a scam.
Hi there MindTimeShare. Hope you don’t mind me dropping in a link, but our group arrived at your blog entry through a research route related to your subject matter.
Our group have posted an account of a victim of a tele-sales scammer duping them out of money to resell their timeshare. It was apparently Russian in nature but as our research builds, we end up linking it to timeshare-disposal.co.uk and found our way here.
Telemarketing/Internet Scam – Sell My Timeshare, Russian
http://www.cybercrimeops.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47732
I’ve dropped a link to this blog entry on our thread too as it contains much needed intel.
Cheers & Thanks !
James
Hi James,
Many thanks for your message.
Very interesting indeed, and we do appreciate you let us know and we recommend everybody to have a look at the link!
Kind regards
Customer Care
have been contacted by Travel Promotions offering to sell my timeshare to the Russian market thro TimeshareDisposal.co.uk provided i buy 2 open weeks at £295 each stating they have high success rates and are selling 20 per week
I was contacted yesterday by Travel Promotions with exactly the same offer as john. Being an elderly widow,I badly need get rid of my timeshare, and fell for their plausible chat line ,foolishly giving my card number to sign up.Imediately they rang me to say the “card had been rejected,probably due to the fact that it was requested in euros,and would I ring the bank and ask them to accept it”. Fortunately my card company put a block on the transaction. I asked my daughter for advice and help and she did a search on web which brought up all the same companies above and guess what ? the phone number I was given is 02034 555 286 the very same as all the others mentioned here. When they rang me today ,I told them that I didnt want to go through with it.he started to argue with me until I told him I had looked up the name of Mark Rowe ,who I had spoken to the previous night, and he imediately said ” Im very sorry densie” and hung up .I have since requested a new credit card number.
had a e-mail today from a company called sell my timeshare or otherwise known as hollywood marketing ltd
I have had a number of calls from Travel Promotions offering to help me sell my Marriott Timeshare gold week into the Russian market. I have spoken to two reps but not spoken to the ‘Valuer’ who wants to talk to both me and my partner together to ensure all our questions are answered (and I guess to ensure we dont have cause to back out). I had noticed the need to attend presentations at the holiday resorts but was advised it was a short session advising me of trips etc not pressurising into purchasing another form of timeshare.
The first person I spoke to said he could not guarantee to sell the property but the Russians like the big names like Radission, Marriott etc. They apparently only forward 15-10 properties a week through their Russian office. In the call today I was told they could almost guarantee I would sell by February if I were to place the property with them this week. They also advised their admin departments would handle all the liaison with Marriott. The fee I would have to pay for the service – £885 gives me 3 weeks holiday in a variety of resorts to be used over 5 years. The fee covers all legal fees too apparently. I was advised not to sell myself short. The valuer was asked what he thought the property could sell for – he said between £11-14K. They do sound very knowledgeable and I was feeling very optomistic until I came across your website today!
They are calling me back tomorrow to see if we can sort out time for us to both speak with the ‘Valuer’ – I wonder if that is Mark Rowe by any chance?
Just looking at the first email I received the email was from mark@travelpromotions but I had spoken to Michael who apparently is unable to work at the moment as his wife is ill. I have been speaking today with Jenny.
Does everyone think this Company is bogus and not genuinely selling Timeshares?
I have also been lured into parting with 294.61 euros (told it was £295) by the smooth talking Travel Promotions. In all honesty I suspected this was a scam but I’m afraid to say greed got the better of me when they started talking re-sale figures and all my good sense went out of the window. I feel ashamed that greed and stupidity was my motivating factor here. Successful scammers prey on these dubious virtues, and some would say I got what I deserve !
I am pursuing the refund with my mastercard provider.
Dear Carl,
Thanks for your comment.
Please let us know if you need any help with the refund claim.
Kind regards
Customer Care
Do not be ashamed, these guys use some very advanced mind altering techniques. Called NLP. I am a therapis and use some of these fort the benefit of my clients. So i thought I would recognise what they were doing and I said it was not for me a number of times and my partner did too. they kept on at us and I kept refusing and then I felt a distinct switch in my mind and my attitude changed and I began to see it as a good proposition and parted with the deposite, Since being back home I still keep getting the od threat from them to take me to court if I don’t Honour the “contract”, O yeh!
The only safe thing to do is say NO and mean it and leave the building after 20 minuits even if you have to take a taxi back home
I have seen on my caller display that this number 02034 555 286 has been calling me incessantly. I haven’t answered the call having read the posts on here.
I have had timeshare for some twenty years (and I love it) but with highly reputable 5* organisations so how did these people get my contact details? It’s rather worrying.
poppikin
Dear Poppikin,
Thanks for your message.
The question is always the same, where did they get my details from?
Probably from an ex employee who worked at a resort you visited, or a form you filled in on the web…and your name is on the list and being sold on and on.
That’s why people are not called once by a company, but a lot of times by different companies one after the other.
Kind regards
Customer Care
We were talking to travel promotions with the similar offer to one above yesterday. Buy 3 week s of holidays for the price of £295 each and they would sell are timeshare for us. We thought this was too good to be true but were trying to do some reasearch into it. The claims of getting our money back from the russian market was very tempting. We are being pressurised to make a discision by monday!
May I provide an update of my recent experience with Travel Promotions. (I refer to my initial posting dated November 16th). After several email exchanges with them I have received a full refund of my £294.61 (not euros as I first wrote) from Travel Promotions.
They started off wanting 3 weeks @ £295.00 but settled for 1 week, which they said enrolled me as a member of Travel Promotions, so they could market my timeshare to the Russians…
..for free.
Clearly it is the outcome I wanted….but it is certainly not what Travel Promotions expect.
This is item 1 of their T&C’s 1….
This offer is non-refundable and exempt from a “cooling-off” or cancellation period as stated in
Statutory Instrument 2000 No.: 2334 (The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations
2000). This information can be reviewed at http://www.opsi.gov.uk.
My card provider tell me this is incorrect and that Timeshare legislation in the UK covers this type of visa/mastercard purchase, and provides a cooling off period of 10 days. Sometimes more.
You do not have to explain to any company why you are cancelling during this period.
I recommend anyone dealing with time-share re-sales should consider much longer and much harder than I did, and do the homework before staking money on what sounds “too good to be true” sales pitches.
Yes, I come away with my refund, but also with a feeling of being tainted by their contact.
So it looks like I have been caught with Travel Promotions as well.I getting a bit fed up with trying to get rid of my timeshares
iv just been scammed
You are not going to believe this… EZE & co have just sent me a Christmas card wishing me a happy Christmas and a PROSPOROUS new year! Would be more prosporous if they returned my deposit!
It shows just how far they will go to appear real.
Aleck
Hi everyone
I’ve just come off the phone with Timeshare Disposal who are claiming to be working with the Spanish Gov to give compensation to members of a bankrupt holiday club!!! I was offered a lump sum of nearly £4k immediately, without signing or providing any documentation. Here’s the catch I have to transfer up front taxes of over six hundred pounds to the Spanish solicitor whose name could not be provided to me.
This immediately rang alarm bells…….
I also fell for the sales chat up from travel promotions and Mark Rowe ‘s valuer .who offerd me a very good price and as Carl said in a previous post GREED took over my sense’s . even though in my mind I knew it was a scam!!!
So I guess I got what I deserved. I just hope other people read all these posts and and dont fall into the same sales trap as I did
Keep up the good work mindtimeshare in keeping Gullable people like myself from these sharks
Dear Sidecar, read my 2nd post (dec 2nd) for help in getting a refund via your card provider.
Cheers
Carl
cheers carl much appreciated
Hello I have just found your web site by chance and would like to commend you on its content.
As I have had several time shares for many years and have had a great many fantastic holidays with them, however due to the ever rising maintanance fees need to to reduce my ownership of some of them.
I have tried to sell one of them through the resort, it has been on their books for 5 years without any response it seems as long as you pay your fees every year they are happy to do nothing to promote the sale.So how do we dispose of unwanted weeks? I did fall for one of the scams about 5 years ago at a cost £500.never again. Your web site is great for exposing the fraudsters but do not seem to have a list of honest agents,if they exist.
You have stated in the past the telephone No. 0203 4555 286 being conected to a Mr Mark Rowe guess what it has appeared yet again @ Sellmytimeshare.tv this web site was advertized on the email from you to comfirm my registration,I’m confused.
Dear Martyn,
Many thanks for your comment.
Indeed our blog is focussed on the fraudulent and dubious companies and we do not really dedicate space to the “others”.
But when recommending resale companies we do say to have a look at the RDO website- http://www.rdo.org – as there is a list of affiliated resale companies.
In case you use another company, always use the golden rule of no fees upfront to process a sale!
You comment about the publicity on the registration email is very worrying and I can assure you that we will contact WordPress straight away in order for them to correct this.
Unfortunately WordPress as part of their set up, includes publicity in the certain areas of the blogs and although they took away the publicity from the blog itself, it now seems they forgot the registration email.
I can assure you that any publicity displayed on the regsitration email is certainly not approved by us!
Many thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
Kind regards
Customer Care