Is this good or bad for me???

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

I feel competely mislead and taken advantage of. I too have 4000 GL points. I've only used the bonus time and have never needed my points. When I bought into it I was lead to believe that if I wasn't happy with it I could sell it and since the point value continues to go up I could sell at a profit. Not only could I not sell it, I can't even give it away! Now VI may be different and willing to take their stinkin points back but now with the increase in fees I am willing to consider it a lesson learned and just walk away. I'm definately interested in legal action so count me in!!!

The legal action should be against the Great Links developer.

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

greatlinks

well that is my question.. we do make payments on our timeshare, we bought 9000 points...

what can they do to me if I just walk away from this and not pay? so far I have kept paying the monthly fee's for the maintenance and the timeshare payment to resort funding...

I just don't know if I stop paying.. is it resort funding I am shafting?

Can they come after us for not paying the payments? The product I bought no longer exists.. We have not signed the papers that VI sent to us... I don't know what to do.
...Pam...

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

well that is my question.. we do make payments on our timeshare, we bought 9000 points...

what can they do to me if I just walk away from this and not pay? so far I have kept paying the monthly fee's for the maintenance and the timeshare payment to resort funding...

I just don't know if I stop paying.. is it resort funding I am shafting?

Can they come after us for not paying the payments? The product I bought no longer exists.. We have not signed the papers that VI sent to us... I don't know what to do.
...Pam...

as i see it, YOUR Homeowners Assn, controlled by the developer who originally sold to you, voted to sell to VI. You haven't said what your payments consist of - for sure they include maintenance fees and payments for purchase if you did that over time. If you walk away, VI may just repossess in some fashion or they may attack your credit.

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

Well good luck trying to sell your points, I've been trying for over a year...can't give them away. My monthly maintenance fees are automatically withdrawn from my chkg account. They helped themselves to a withdrawl just yesterday 2/5/10. I sent an email to GL to discontinue the withdrawl and so far there has been no response. On Monday I'm going to my bank to see if I can stop them on my end. If there are any lawyers out there I think many of us would love to here from you regarding this whole f'd up situation. What a freakin scam this timeshare was/is!

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

great links

Thanks for responding

I pay my maintenance monthly and it is to great links and is 38 or so a month.
I also pay my timeshare fee's to Resort Funding who I have many years worth of payments to make at 220 ish or so...

I don't think I'd be as upset about the whole thing , if I could be sure I could trade in interval and put up a low season studio somewhere, and see what I can get for it.. see if I could get a 1 br or 2br somewhere... but it doesn't seem to work that way

[timeos2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close timeos2]

Her, take my signed checks and do what you will.

Well good luck trying to sell your points, I've been trying for over a year...can't give them away. My monthly maintenance fees are automatically withdrawn from my chkg account. They helped themselves to a withdrawl just yesterday 2/5/10. I sent an email to GL to discontinue the withdrawl and so far there has been no response. On Monday I'm going to my bank to see if I can stop them on my end. If there are any lawyers out there I think many of us would love to here from you regarding this whole f'd up situation. What a freakin scam this timeshare was/is!

Usually the only way to stop an automatic withdrawal is for the taker to voluntarily stop (yeah, they will do that!) or you have to close the account. You cannot unilaterally stop the withdrawals without their approval once you grant it (which is why I'll NEVER authorize an automatic withdrawal again. Not ever). And even then if you stay with the same bank some will automatically transfer the auto withdrawal to the NEW account s check that before you do anything.

Automatic withdrawals is like opening your checkbook to an outsider. NEVER allow it or you may regret it.

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

Class action?

Sorry, I have been busy with personal stuff, but I still intend to start a website for the Great Links members.

We need to connect and share information.

MK

[baumer64 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close baumer64]

I got a call from VI

I received a call from a nice lady with VI on Saturday. She was trying to set up a time with me to meet their representative who will explain the VI system. As she was talking with me, she realized that I'm on the East side of the state (WA) and said that they would have to schedule something at a later date. She was very positive and how exciting this is and how much I will enjoy being a part of VI. I then very nicely told her that I don't view this as a positive in any way shape or form. I explained that we bought in mainly to use Desert Canyon, Moses Point, and Great Links at Ocean Shores. All three of these resorts were not part of the merger/take over. I explained that the biggest obstical I had to cross when buying was the maintenance fees. I was afraid of these fees jumping way up over the years. When I bought I was told that these fees could not go up over 5% from one year to the next. I have that in writing in my owners agreement as well. I then asked her how much it costs to buy more VI points. She didn't have an answer for me. She said that she is just a scheduler and that another woman in sales would have that answer. I told her I've left messages for thier sales reps to contact me so I can find out how much VI points cost. She said that GL owners will be given a "special deal" if they choose to purchase more points but that she didn't have the details. I again explained my frustration that I still have 3 more $500 payments on my $8000 purchase for a vacation timeshare that doesn't have the features or locations that were the reasons we purchased in the first place.

Through our conversation, I remained very calm and polite. She was very nice as well. She did say that she has had many upset GL owners she has spoken with while making her scheduling calls.
I haven't sent back the paperwork VI mailed to me yet. I'm not sure what to do at this point. I know that going after the original GL developer won't do any good just as there isn't anything to go after VI for because they just purchased us owners who have been screwed over by GL.

Has anyone else received a scheduling call with VI? If so, how did it go? The call and the meeting.

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

greatlinks/.VI

well we just got a phone call and they want us to come down and talk to them so we are going to go down to see them. I will come and post what that is about. I'm to bring the papers " they'll be happy to help me with them" Yeah, i'm sure.

I emailed back to say we will be there but I don't know if I'll be signing anything as this doesn't seem a good deal to us, so I'll post. I imagine it's going to be a hard sell, and if it is, I'm so out of there.. we don't like that kind of stuff.

At this point I imagine they are wanting us to sign because the maintenance fee's would be coming due.. so that's likely to now be over 1000 bucks because it's over double what I was paying with great links.

I feel like taking all their papers and

...Pam...
It's really to bad there is no lawyer amoungst us that we could ask for some guidance on this.

[baumer64 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close baumer64]

Pambo please report back

Pambo,
When is your meeting with them? Since you say you will bring the papers to sign, does that mean you haven't signed the papers sent out at the beginning of the year?
We haven't signed and sent ours in yet either.
I'm really curious as to what they will have to say and what kind of a deal we have now.

Look forward to hearing back from you!

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

Hi There,
We haven't signed anything yet and don't intend to for all the reasons that everyone else has indicated here. I am going to speak to a lawyer in Washington and see what they have to say. Has anyone here gone that route yet and what was the reply?

Thanks I will post what I find out.

Steve & Carlisa

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

timeshare

Well I got the dates wrong.. and now have to reschedule because I'm working in the date they set for us.. so we have still not had the meeting. So I have not seen them yet.

I'm very interested in hearing what a Lawyers opinion of this is, whether it's legal, whether we can just stop paying the payments.

I can't believe I'm being billed for Great links Maintenance fee's... for what? I don't have exchange power with them through interval anymore.. so i'm not sure why I should bother paying that either.

...Pam...

if we do go down soon I'll post the outcome, and I'll keep checking to see if there are any more posts re; lawyer visit Carlisa..
..

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

well that is my question.. we do make payments on our timeshare, we bought 9000 points...

what can they do to me if I just walk away from this and not pay? so far I have kept paying the monthly fee's for the maintenance and the timeshare payment to resort funding...

I just don't know if I stop paying.. is it resort funding I am shafting?

Can they come after us for not paying the payments? The product I bought no longer exists.. We have not signed the papers that VI sent to us... I don't know what to do.
...Pam...

I did stop paying and they are now threatening collections. How can this even be right? We can't even use the darn thing now and they still want their money!

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

timeshare VI

I am still getting bills for the great links monthly maintenance fee too... maintenance on what? I can't exchange anything, I don't believe I have great links points anymore... I'm in limbo and they still want money

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

I called Great Links to stop the automatic mo. payments for the yearly maintenance fees, they told me I needed to cancel the withdrawls through AFTS and they also told me that I'm still responsible for the balance of the maintenance fees since I received my points for this year. So does that mean I'll be paying maintenance fees for both? Has anyone gone to the new owner meeting yet and have they discussed that?

I have not signed my VI papers yet and really have no intention to do so. I didn't want VI when it was offered through GL and I'm not interested now.