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 !!!!
I heard an ad on the radio in Nov 2008 and called to try "Right-size smoothies" which was a weight loss smoothie. When I did the free trial they asked if I would like to be connected to the Disney Promotions line for a chance for a promotional vacation. I was 20 at the time, young and naive. So I said sure and they told me about this great deal where if you pay for 2 Disney theme park tickets ($99 each) then you get a weeks stay in their resort for free. Summer Bay Resorts is the company name. Made it sound really nice.
So I bought the tickets and they said I had a year to redeem this vacation. about 9 months later they call and ask why I haven't booked my vacation yet. After all is said and done, and they found out how old I am, they claim that I cannot take the vacation until I am at least 23 years old, and they are unsure how a 20 year old was sold this deal. I told him that no1 ever asked how old I was. He connects me to his manager and he gives me a 3 year extension to take this vacation and also adds cancun mexico as a vacation option. so I cough up 200 more dollars to these creeps and they leave me alone for awhile.
A few months ago they start calling me again and asking me to upgrade my vacation to "all-inclusive" for another $400, I tell him I dont have $400 dollars and that if I decided to do it I would call them. they continue to call me with the same upgrade a few times a day for about three weeks. I would answer if the time was convenient and tell them I already talked to the manager and that I am not interested. One time, I told the guy I already talked to his manager and told him I wasnt interest and asked why they continued to call me, he said he didnt know why, and hung up on me. the next time they called I let them say their spiel and asked the supervisor to take me off the list and I havent heard from them since.
I am still not sure if this is real or not, but judging from the other testimonies it seems to be a scam. I never had any problems with them being unprofessional except for the one guy hanging up on me. they have sent me official letters and such also. who knows.