We start the week with news of Friday’s court cases (14 April), 3 sentences were announced against Anfi, two from the High Court of Las Palmas and one from the Lower Court in Maspalomas.
The amounts awarded for these three cases is well over 100,000 euro, a severe blow to this resort, again the courts ruled as per the Supreme Court judgements. Contracts over 50 years, floating weeks and the taking of deposits within the cooling off period, (including by a third party), have all been deemed illegal.
All three clients in these cases are from Norway, they had employed Canarian Legal Alliance to fight their cases and release them from those illegal contracts. The courts declared them null & void and ordered that Anfi repay them their purchase price, plus double the deposits, legal interest and legal fees.
Along with the ongoing problems of the Tauro Beach Project, which again we have seen the authorities removing people from the beach, as it is still fenced off and closed to the public, these awards are a severe blow.
Gr8stays is once again the subject from several readers over the weekend, again the final demands are being received by ex-Club Class members. These final demands are for non payment of the admin fee associated with Club Class membership, the letters state that the membership has been reactivated as Gr8stays has taken over from Club Class and Leisure Alliance.
Many of those receiving these letters have not been members for around 7 years, especially since Club Class was closed down by the authorities in the UK. For many they have never received the promised discounts on their holidays, using the non payment clause in the contract. If you do not wish to continue membership, you just stop paying the annual admin fees.
Now Gr8stays is asking for back payment of the admin fee or if you want to cancel your membership, just pay around £200 and we will cancel it for you. Hang on did you not cancel years ago? They are obviously very short of money to come up with a scam like this, pay to cancel something you don’t even have?
In the end Gr8stays is trying it on, you do not owe the past admin fees, you do not need to pay them to cancel a membership you no longer have, just tell them where to go and keep your hard earned cash.
Back in January, we published the article about another new credits based lifestyle company, Keys Concierge.
The company became active on 6 August 2015, with the director being one Franz Markus Deutsch, who we know is associated with Mark Cushway of Silverpoint fame. In this article it was mentioned that due to the association between the two directors and their past relationship, could this new product be the new one being sold by Silverpoint?
Since that article, a reader has sent in the following information:
They attended a presentation at Beverly Hills Heights, where they signed up for the £995 1 year trial membership. They would receive 995 credits, which would give them access to multi discounts across major high street and grocery retailers. One which this reader was interested in was the 6% discount at Asda, being a major shopper there it would certainly save him a great deal.
The thing is this reader was not totally taken in, he checked with Asda and other retailers, not one of them had heard of Keys Concierge as a business, let alone had any “deals” with them. In his words “I am now a little dubious about their offer”. Inside Timeshare has contacted Asda and is waiting for a reply.
It does go to show that doing your due diligence and research is very important. There are many of these “Lifestyle Products” making an appearance these days, many are replacing the sales of “Timeshare”, as they do not come under timeshare law. (Is this why Silverpoint split from the RDO?)
These “lifestyle Products” “Credits” etc, make promises of big discounts and saving money, where have we heard all that before? Why would you pay for “credits” or “vouchers” to get a discount anyway?
If you have any questions or comments on any article published on Inside Timeshare we would love to hear from you. If you have had any dealings with any company mentioned and would like to share your experience with others use the contact us section.
It is through your information that others can find out who to deal with.
The post Since the Weekend appeared first on Inside Timeshare.