We start this week off with more information on the company linked to Silverpoint and contacting their own clients regarding relinquishments and claims, Centaurus Mediations SL. Once again Inside Timeshare has received more emails from readers who have been contacted or attended meetings at their office in Tenerife.
There is now another new twist to the tale, this is a company based in Stirling Scotland called Fullbrook Associates, this company it seems is employed by Centaurus Mediations (who are charging extortionate amounts) to take on their “cases” to get the owners out of the Silverpoint contracts and claim back their money!
Who are Fullbrook Associates?
According to company house, they were incorporated on 13 June 2016, under the name of Fullbrook Marketing Ltd, changing the name to Fullbrook Associates on 17 March 2017, with the company registration number: SC537793
FULLBROOK ASSOCIATES LTD – Overview
The registered address is:
4/5 Stirling Business Centre, Wellgreen, Stirling, Scotland, FK8 2DZ. But the address given on the website shows a slightly different address: 73 Wellgreen Pl, Stirling FK8 2DZ, UK. This is a business center offering office space to rent either full time or on a need to use basis, as with all these business centers they are also mail delivery points.
According to company records the nature of their business is: 70229 – Management consultancy activities other than financial management. So this begs the question what are they to do with timeshare?
The director section of company records is rather interesting, the original director was Martin Scully, appointed 13 June 2016, but resigned 13 June 2016, (no that is not a mistake) with Kathleen Mary Scully also being appointed on 13 June 2016. It is also believed that Martin Scully was at one time working in the marketing department of EZE Group, not an unfamiliar name to these pages.
When looking at “Meet the Team” section of their website, they show the photos of 6 ladies including one solicitor and one paralegal, yet in their profiles not one of them shows any history or knowledge of timeshare matters or law. Although according to the Legal Services section on Timeshare Termination they state “Fullbrook Associates has such specialism. We can not only extricate unhappy clients from their timeshare contracts but can successfully pursue compensation claims surrounding mis-selling and consumer credit breaches”.
On the point of “compensation Claims”, one has to ask how they are going to do this?
Are they going to use the Credit Consumer Act 1974 Section 75?
Staying on the website, they do not show any company registration numbers, no SRA registration number for the lawyer or any registration with the Institute of Paralegals for the Paralegal, which one would have thought was of great importance. They also show no official membership to any organisation, or show any registration for claims management with the Ministry of Justice.
Obviously, we have mentioned the link between Centaurus Mediations, Silverpoint and Mark Cushway, we have also in the past published that Silverpoint / Mark Cushway had approached Claims Solutions Group to take on cases against themselves!
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Once again we have timeshare owners being charged huge amounts of money by one company to extricate them from their timeshare, (run by the very people who sold it to you in the first place), then being passed onto a third party to do the work. One can see the problem here, if the work is not done by the third party, Centaurus can get away from any Section 75 claim by stating they have fulfilled their contract, it is not their fault the work has not been done.
Remember, if you purchased your timeshare in Spain after January 1999, your contract is for more than 50 years, you have points or floating week systems, you paid any money within the cooling off period, then the only way to successfully claim is through the Spanish Courts using Spain’s very stringent timeshare laws. (Please also bare in mind that not all are claimable regardless of what you are told).
If you just want to terminate your membership, contact your own timeshare company first, many are now offering to allow termination, most will not even deal with third parties, only with the member direct, so you could be paying for nothing.
Just because a company boasts they are UK registered does not mean they can be trusted, look for their track record, how long have they been operating, are they able to prove their “expertise” in timeshare law, can you get independent confirmation that they have actually got people out of timeshare and got their money back? (Do not always trust testimonials published on their websites).
These are all questions you need to be asking, do not just believe the “pitch”, do your homework before you pay any money out.
If you require any information about any company that has contacted you or one that you have found on the internet, then contact Inside Timeshare and we will point you in the right direction.
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