DWVC and key properties

by **Abbiesmum** on Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:43 pm

Because I received information to late to be of any use I 'invested' in DWVC in 2006. Last night I received a very odd phone call from a chap stating that several hundred 'investors' were using his company to take DWVC to court for not honouring their cashback promises, did I want to join? which (of course) would cost me a 'small' fee.

As I had had a previous call from a company telling me they had a purchaser for my DWVC membership which of course again would cost £1000 up front which would then be refunded I am justifiably, I think, sceptical of this company too. I refused to pay anything to sell my membership, much as I would like to, and haven't heard from them since.

I have a feeling these companies are all related and it is just another scam to get money our of members. I asked how he had got my telephone number and name,see3ing as they are ex directory and we are on the tps service, but he wasn't able to tell me. Has anyone else had this? and does anyone know anything about this supposed court case?

by **Fred 2** on Sat Jan 03, 2009 13:29 pm

Key Property Town Advisory is one of the oldest scams. I don't suppose that they will ever take anyone to court - but they make a very nice living saying that they are going to. They have done this for years. Don't give them any money as you will never see any return from it.

Your DWVC "membership" is completely worthless and it follows that no-one is going to buy it. Anyone who says that they can sell it is lying to you, however good their story.

If you are cold-called by anyone the only safe thing to do is to put the phone down. Similarly, do not respond to any advertisements which say that they can help you to dispose of a membership, timeshare &c.

You are clearly on a database which is being hawked around, so expect more calls of this kind.

by **Abbiesmum** on Sun Jan 04, 2009 19:54 pm

Thanks for that Fred, I thought it was another scam. I shall have great fun telling him where to go when he rings back tomorrow!

by **Fred 2** on Sun Jan 04, 2009 20:24 pm

I suggest that you look at the Cashback thread below for current information about that company - which is not good, but is probably as expected.

by **bernigriff** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 08:30 am

I also have recieved a call &email from key properties
They say that the cashback has stopped trading my timeshare
was in the cashback price can anyone give advice. I phoned cashback
but the phone is out of order.I should have been sending the cert
at end of this month

berni

by **streakyb** on Tue Jul 28, 2009 19:24 pm

We joined DWVC in 2002 and last year, in line with our membership, we sent back the CashBack certificate - all in order and correctm- we've had confirmation of this! Since last October, despite emails, we have received neither a reply or our monies which are well and truly overdue. Has anyone else had this problem? How can we resolve it? Have we been well and truly conned"???

by **wingiwong** on Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:19 am

My parents paid Incentive Leisure Group over £6,000 to sell their timeshare in 2007 but ended up they had bought into DWVC with Reclaim cashback in 51 months! Because ILG hadn't transferred my parents' timeshare into their name my parents were still being invoiced for the maintenance costs, which is where I stepped in to help. I emailed ILG UK who said the paperwork had got lost and I had to arrange for duplicate contract documents. Now they say they have ceased trading and every time I email them I get a nasty replies from a Martin White. His last email to me said"I would advise you to give up the private investigation and stick to your day job. This is another unresearched allegation, but this time it is libellous. I will be taking advice and will issue proceedings against you".

My parents have also paid Kep Properties over £1,000 to take ILG to Court. Another scam company.

In the last few weeks they have now been contacted by a company first calling themselves PREMIUM GROUP, then EXCALIBAR MARKETING, then OWNERS 2 BUY. Has anyone heard of them? They said they had a buyer for my parents' DWVC membership, even had the name of the buyer - a Mr Chapman, but my parents would have to pay £995 up front which they would get back upon receipt of signed contracts and the "silver box" my parents have with all documents on holidays in it. Then they would pay my parents £5,600. All sounds too good to be true. All this is becoming such a nightmare, any ideas?

by **Full Monty** on Sat Sep 26, 2009 23:49 pm

Rule One

Anyone asking you for money up front is a scam.

Rule Two

Anyone asking you to go to their premises is a scam.

It is possible to get timeshare for the cost of the transfer fee. Go to Ebay and look.

http://www.westberks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=17013

tells you all about ILG

by **lostalot** on Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:26 am

To anyone who is cold called,or requested to attend a meeting, or pay money up front. THIS IS A SCAM. Do not believe anything that is said to you by these pe
ople all they want is YOUR money and for you to join some other scam.
If in doubt just think ,why would anyone want to buy a Timeshare ?

by **Jacquiskudder** on Tue Sep 29, 2009 14:53 pm

DWVC - Cashback Europe

Can somebody help please !!! We unfortunately are members of DWVC - purchased 2006 - we have now been approached by Cashback Europe who say our certificate was not lodged properly. They passed our details to Future Group Administration based in Barcelona who maintain that our certificate is worthless as South Beach Promotions were closed down in Tenerife by the police and that thousands of certificates were not lodged properly with them. To rectify this we have to travel to Stoke on Trent in March next year (the earliest they can see us !) once we have paid them £250 holding deposit - they will then guarantee us a new certificate and we can cash it in at that point and they guarantee 90% of its value.

We are so confused by all of this and are unsure as to whether it is yet another scam. Is there anybody that can please advise us a) whether we are ever likely to get any money back from this cashback certificate and b) if the above is legitimate or another scam.

Many many thanks