club class "take over" buy back.

[aramis]

FlyingHI, that is really good advice, and just a pity that reputable holiday companies, and airlines don't offer it in their pre-departure instructions. It's far too sensible of course for the Office of Fair Trading to think of or advise!
As you say, just tell them you ain't got a credit card - brilliant.

[timmw]

We were conned into joining club class by working areas in Tenerife, 5 yrs ago. We got our deposit back, but not the main payment.
We have just been contacted by a company called key property advisory who claim to be taking club class and others like them to court.
Has anyone else been approached by them? I read the email they sent and get the feeling that we would have to pay for the ' Legal costs '.
There is no way we will pay any more money to anyone, but wondered if anyone else already has.

[merabe]

i have just been contacted by some outfit telling me club class has gone into receivership and i am entitled to my money back. all i have to do is go to tenerife, 'golf plaza hotel' or something like that free of charge. this is because you can only fill in the paperwork in spain. all i have to do is turn up after paying them 149 pounds for spanish vat and they will fill all the paperwork in for me when i get there. i can stay for upto a week buckshee so he reckons. what does anyone think???

[Fred 2]

Well what do you think? It is a copper-bottomed scam, isn't it.

[merabe]

i am convinced its a scam, and i told him so on the phone. how come its not all over the news i asked him, to which he replied it is in spain!!! yeah right o'
he was also trying to tell me i was entitled to more money back than i had actually paid. like was said before by some-one else 'its not even a good scam'

[Mand.]

Has anyone been approached by Castillo Brokers ?. So far we have replied to an email following their phone call also saying they were acting for a French Client. They have, up until today sounded very plausible. The first call we received 2 months ago advised that they could probably get half our money back. We were conned into handing over just under �6K in 2000. (I had bad feelings before sending the second part of the payment and should have stuck to my gut instinct).

However todays phone call told me to expect �18K, lucky me; but this was only as long as we paid �3K brokerage tax up front. I naturally refused as we had been approached by the Gibralta Squad about 4 years ago with a similar scam.

Castillos Brokers said they would lodge the proceeds of my sale with the Bank at their end ready to send within 48 hours of me paying my �3K tax payment. I was also told that I could check through my bank that the payment from them was ready to be sent.

As an employee of a bank, I know that payments of this nature are never guaranteed and even if sent, can still be recalled within reasonable time. Therefore BEWARE

[Fred 2]

Mand - Do you have a personal name -address - phone &/or fax - bank details for this lot? They sound just like, and may be the same as, another company mentioned here.

[grandmaof10]

has anyone heard of The Samuel-Bergen Partnership?????? They're offering me �200 per share - i have 100 shares!!! I'M VERY SUSPICIOUS!
IS THIS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE????

[metoo]

I had a phone call this week from Club Class. We should have received half our money back a few years after buying into club Class but as a lot of people forgot to claim the Canarian Tourist Board now wnat us to go to Tenerife and spend a week in a 5 star hotel. There we will meet one of their agents and he will sort out our claim for us. We need to pay �149 to register. Its clearly a scam - I was told we would get at least �3000 back although we got the Club Class membership 'free' when we bought a timeshare. It sounds very similar to the post above in this chain.

[Fred 2]

Grandma - the "Samuel-Bergen Partnership" does not appear on any web search so they probably started calling themselves by that name about five minutes before they called you (and it will be different tomorrow). You know it's a scam without being told.


Metoo - it is NOT the Canarian Tourist Board who want you to go. They do not do that kind of thing. This is an attempt to scam you. Do you have the name of the people who contacted you?