Ian Podesta - Stephen Cloobeck

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

This morning I wrote a personal e-mail to Stephen Cloobeck at Diamond Resorts.
I invited Mr Cloobeck to call me at home today if he was sincere in helping to satisfy the issues with the Scottish families.

Less than six hours later Mr Cloobeck returned the call.

After a conversation lasting some 40 minutes he confirmed that his intentions were to look after all the issues of these Scottish families.

I therefore gave Mr Cloobeck my assurance that various web forums would receive this communication stating his intentions.

Obviously I cannot speak for the Scottish families but I am sure that this good news will be received maybe with some caution but I gave Mr Cloobeck my assurance that once the Scottish families have been settled satisfactorily then everybody will be notified.

On a personal note, what's gone in the past we cannot change, what's being proposed by Mr Cloobeck could finalise a long and painful experience for myself and many other people not least my estranged family and on that note I believe we should give Mr Cloobeck and Diamond Resorts the time and space to resolve these matters.

If you don't know who these guys are just google their names.

[eagleman Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eagleman]

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Frankly surprised you heard from Mr. Cloobeck directly. I have emailed the company several times and all I get is a response from someone else with a long story about how great they are and that I am not using the system properly. Amazing that you can't book many places even a year or more in advance when in fact the company is selling space to people they want to entice to join. Where are the priorities? Seems obvious to me.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Frankly surprised you heard from Mr. Cloobeck directly. I have emailed the company several times and all I get is a response from someone else with a long story about how great they are and that I am not using the system properly. Amazing that you can't book many places even a year or more in advance when in fact the company is selling space to people they want to entice to join. Where are the priorities? Seems obvious to me.

According to this thread at TimeshareTalk, DRI is also renting some or all of its European inventory for less than maintenance fees to the general public:

http://www.timesharetalk.co.uk/forum...TOPIC_ID=11235

That said, Cloobeck does have a reputation for sometimes getting personally involved in some issues at DRI is a very positive way. Perhaps this is one of them.

Ian Podesta is an urban legend, a former exec with Sunterra (DRI's predecessor) turned whistleblower who brough Sunterra crashing down, at which time DRI picked it up for a song. He came to be known as ''Ipod'' during that effort.

The Scottish families raised a real ruckus with Sunterra with several websites, one of which was entitled ''Sunterror'' and another ''Sunterrafied''. One of them even bought an old ambulance, had it repainted as the SCAMbulance with various anti-Sunterra slogans and drove it around to various Sunterra sales sites to run off their prospects. Supposedly, Cloobeck settled very early after DRI bought Sunterra on the Scottish claims, and the websites were taken down. This post makes it appear that somewhere along the line, DRI must have renigged on the settlement.

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eagleman dug this up from 2 years ago?

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Sorry, didn't notice the date. It did surprise me that Cloobeck would make this settlementand then go back on it.