Hi, There appears nothing has been posted since April 2011, I live on the Gold Coast in Australia.
I went onto the web into a site, that I play games on, and had a message in my inbox, and flashed up I had won $3,000 with Perfferred Guest Resort, towards accommodation for a trip to Florida,
I rang the Sydney phone number and was directed to Orlando Florida, I then spoke to a lovely man called Eddie, As I had problem with the 18mth time limit, he put me through to another lovely man called Ross.
At the end of the conversation I had 3 years to use the accommodation etc....7 day car rental, 2 passes to one of the theme parks, a dinner at sunset, a lunch and a breakfast for 2, a cruise to the Bahamas, all for $3,898, - $3,000 I won, so $898 for this great 15 nights help with cheapest travel, so sounded really good, I spoke to my partner and he looked up this site, as I had Ross holding on the phone, he mentioned it was a Time share, and also not the best service with cockroaches, etc... so we did not go ahead with the deal.
Who has been over there in the last year and got a deal like this ? Feedback would be great is this really a Scam ? Had I not rung my partner I probably would have done the deal !!!!
South Australians are being targeted by a phone scam which promises a heavily discounted holiday in Florida.
The scammer claims to be from Summer Bay Holiday Resorts.
The American phone operator promises a trip to Florida and admission to an amusement park for just $1,000.
A victim of the scam, Sally Hunter from Blackwood, says the operation was very professional.
"I mean I was a bit sceptical at first, and I asked lots of questions and they kept me talking for what must have been nearly an hour," she said.
They even gave Ms Hunter a return phone number.
But after giving out her credit card number, she contacted her bank, who told her they were already investigating alleged calls from Summer Bay Resorts in Florida.
South Australia's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs Mark Bodycoat says he has had reports of holiday scams out of the United States.
He says the best advice is to never give a credit card number to a cold caller.
This caller said he was calling to confirm scuba tanks we reserved. Not He did have some wrong info on us and I did not correct him...but now I know and will not pick up again.
The name of the company is Best Vacation Ever. Their web site is http://www.bestvacationsever.com/. According to one of the many ppl I was pasted on to Kendil Manier is the director of customer services. Their number is 1-800-656-3780.
This is a scam claiming to offer "free vacations" or similar garbage "prizes." You will be asked to give a credit card number and charged. You will never get your money back. The so-called prize is a roach-infested toilet (no air fare included) where you will be forced to attend high-pressure time-share sales presentations. If you don't attend the presentation you will be scammed out of more money on your charge card to cover the "costs" of your stay in the roach-infested toilet.
Don't be stupid enough to fall for this. These pieces of filth have been operating this fraud for years under various names like "Preferred Guest Resorts", "Summer Bay Resorts", and so on. The calls use phony spoofed numbers (area codes 407, 201, and so forth) and illegally violate the worthless "Do Not Call" registries.
I received a call from this number but was busy and did not answer. When I returned the call it was an automated answering machine telling me the person on this extension was busy. I got a weird feeling and googled the number and wound up here. I know I haven't filled out a free vacation form, so I have no idea how they got my number and I am on the DO NOT CALL list as well.