I received a call from Destination Services, also called Global Destination Services. The sales person is Tanya Edwards Rivera. She said they are located at 411 Lincoln Highway, Sacramento. She said that they would rent out my timeshare to the Meinhardt Engineering Group for a Convention in Mexico and all I need to do is pay them for the reservation fee of $199 per reservation. They take your credit card number and charge it to different companies--Divas and Beyond, Catered World Wide Web, Gater Web Hosting -- and others, saying its a way to avoid international exchange fees. They say that Premier Exchange, another company located in New York and in Orange California, will be reserving the actual timeshare once they get the reservation fees. They say they are booking for a convention for the Meinhardt Engineering group at the Hyatt Regency in Cancun, Mexico. They will pay $3600 per week plus $750 maintenance fee. THEY ARE VERY CONVINCING AND PERSISTENT. They call daily to give you updates--with invoice numbers etc. They e-mail a verification agreement in microsoft word and say a formal contract will come in the mail with the check to you at which point they ask that you sign and return the contract. BEWARE, they are pretty convincing. I have disputed all the charges and changed my credit card number.
I am helping an acquaintance with managing her timeshare. Her late husband had advertised their timeshare for rent. She got a call from a company and asked me to call them back. She gave me the number so I called it but is was invalid. I told her to have them call me direct next time they called. I received a call late last night from a (303) 912-8368 number (changed number recording when I attempted to redial it). The call was the same exact detail as what Pat above got but from an Isabella Chase at Global Destination Service she gave me this 530 number to call back. They are convincing but I told them I needed to confer with the owner and call me in the morning. She put a manager on the line to supposedly take care of exchanging the timeshare for me for a mere $199 fee. So far they have not and I don't expect them to either. I kind of hope they do so I can give them a piece of my mind.
the 12 of july they ask me if y would be interesting to sell them weeks and the offer they made was very interesting but i had to pay the fee 199.00 they cauth me and y sold them 3 weeks for a total of 597.00 for the 3 weeks . on my credit card their name was technologie made for yo albany ga amt 597.00unit ed states dollarwith the taxes they took 623.70 y was suposed to receive 10.800.00on september .i never received any money it was for their big convention in cacun mexico now y want them to give me my money back and y cant speak to anybody they put me on hold for 15 min and the line close dont know what to do to get my money back would you help me please sorry for my english im a french person thank you very much her name was catherine young
I just got a call from them but I told them if they wanted to rent my timeshare to go to redweek.com because I have a post there, which I do. I asked for a name and they gave me a supervisor's name of Mary Jensen. Then they hung up. I think I threw her off when I had a come back.
Ricky (female) called me from Global Destinations today to rent my timeshare for $3,500 per week plus $750. They would charge the exchange fee of $199 but it wouldn't be final and I could change my mind until I receive the check between Nov 28 and Dec 3. I told them it didn't make sense to have to wait that long if they already had it rented out. The then said they had 137 units already rented and only needed 140 to close it out. I told them I could rent out 3 weeks to close it out and she was happy and said I could get my check in a week because now all rentals were completed. It made no sense at all and I continued to question her. I told her I would be happy to rent it out for $1,000 or $2,000 if I didn't have to pay the $199. She said it was a big company and they could afford the $3,500. I told her it didn't make sense and that no one would pay that much money to rent for one week and if your buying 140 units for the same week I'm sure she could call RCI and get a better deal rather than pay me such a large fee. She then hung up on me.
Just received the same phone call from Sonia Edwards 530-217-6051 Global Destination Services in California. Basically gave me same info about Meinhardt Engineering planning a convention in Cancun at the Hyatt Regency and would like to reserve a 2-bedroom for $3600 plus $750 maintenance fee. It is truly unbelievable how many scam artists are out there. We were scammed last year by Timeshares by Owner for $1200. Mindy Jonson was her name, assured us that our condo would be rented in November. Well, nothing happened from that, and then she was never available to answer calls. Life's lessons are sometimes very costly!