Rci serious crimes effects all members

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

I have yet to figure out what Bernie Madoff has got to do with this. And when reading this, not sure what RCI is doing either. It appears that slim owns in NC, but multiple times will repost notes from other sites that do not deal with his ownership. He appears to be upset with anyone that has two nickels to rub together, but then talks about chartering a boat and deep sea fishing and that is not cheap. He is upset his credit has been hurt, but it is because he has not paid his bills.

I agree, it does sound like someone probably not able to express himself because of a language issue.

Although I cannot assume anything from his name of Joe Walsh, I am venturing to say he is a native speaker. Yes, never assume, but I am deducing only here.

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You know...if this was "the Joe Walsh" I could understand the way the postings were written. If you listen to that Joe Walsh, well, just say no to drugs.

But...I am fairly sure it isn't that Joe Walsh. I am not say that slim has anything to do with the other Joe. I am not slamming slim.

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I'd like to know about the cancellation of your Hawaii exchanges. That sounds to be more recent than the other problems?

When did you book, when did they cancel, what excuse did they give you?

If the resort was destroyed or became uninhabitable, well, OK, but RCI should still try to find you suitable alternatives.

Also, did you book them using RCI points or weeks?

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If I recall I believe these all came the can't argue with a sick mind album

YouTube - joe Walsh Lifes Been Good

YouTube - Joe Walsh - The Eagles - 1977- Rocky Mountain Way

YouTube - Joe Walsh - The Eagles - 1977- Walk Away

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rci crimes

AMERICA BELIEVED AND LOVED BERNIE MADOFF AND SOME OF YOU BELIEVE AND LOVE RCI. MANY OF YOU GUYS COMPLETELY BLANK OUT WHAT I WROTE BECAUSE YOU LOVE RCI. I LOVE TO TRAVEL AND I LOVE RCI TO BE HONEST BUT THEY ARE NOT. PEOPLE SAY THEY DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING. TO BE HONEST,IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. AGAIN,BELOW ARE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT RCI. IT WAS TAKEN OFF SITE AS SEEN. BELOW IS NOT HONEST MISTAKES. THEY ARE ACTIONS TAKEN TO ROB MEMBERS. I KEEP WRITING THIS AND NOBODY SAYS I AM CORRECT. AGAIN,THERE IS NO PURPOSE FOR ME TO WRITE FALSEHOODS ABOUT RCI. IN THIS COUNTRY HAS BIG MONEY ROBBED AMERICA AT WILL? YES OR NO AMERICA KNOWS THAT IN CLASS ACTION RCI DID SERIOUS EVIL. THEIR PUNISHMENT IS PENNIES. YES OR NO. Martina of Houston TX (01/19/09)
Well I was 18 years old. I went to one of the meetings I was hammered by this sells guy and being so young I was told that I couldnt leave until I signed the contract to get me started on my free vacations. I was stuck being hammered by 4 different sales people until 11:30 ant night, they kept going at me and going at me. My friend went with me to this meeting - and in the middle of pitch she said well you just got your tax refund so that would cover your start-up well one of the sales rep listened into your so called private talk and told the manager - so he offered up more free items that I never got.

I am 27 now - that was the worse mistake that I have ever made it destroyed my credit and my life. I used it one time and it was the worse vacation in my life. I spent over $4 grand on the lowest package; I had a family emergency and needed to get to my mothers. I called up RCI to exchange my points into Flight at that time they said I could, so they set it up.

A month later I tried to set up travel again and the RCI rep said we dont do that. after I told them they did it the month before she said that must have been the special for that month. I stopped paying after that. I tried to cancel my contract the RCI rep said I couldnt until I caught up with payments, and then I would have to pay a $496.71 cancel fee. They preyed on a kid and won. I have had to over come a lot in life and this taught me a VALUABLE LESSION! Always go with your gut!

So far it has kept my credit score below 470 - despite perfect payment on school loans. I cant get a loan on a new car or a house or credit cards - I cant build my credit until this goes away - and for some reason every 3 years they open it up and leave it open for a 5 years as delinquent. I cant claim bankruptcy because I dont have enough debit! Because I cant get any debt to mess up on! Talk about FRUSTRATING! I cant get married either because it will destroy my boyfriends credit to! If you are looking to get a timeshare DONT! It is a waste of time and MONEY! The average vacation for a couple 1 time a year is 700$ at a major city with a 5 star hotel! 800$ for a all-inclusive vacation in Mexico on the BEACH!

R of Kennebunkport ME (01/16/09)
RCI's main objective is to capture your weeks so they can make a commission on a trade. Their next objective is to charge you constantly increasing fees. Now they CHARGE your credit card for an exchange search. They will also call you until you go crazy about special offers. Oh, and you pay a yearly membership fee for this.


Mike of Whitman MA (01/09/09)
i was given a coupon for a free week, to use any where within 12 months. filled out coupon, sent it in with a fifthy dollar returnable deposit, only to have it rejected because no one that did the sales pitch to me, filled in the date of the sales interview, but they cashed my check no problem for my deposit.

my vacation plans are fouled up because i chose a certain week off from work to go to west virginia, when my kids are off from school, and i cant change that week because the company wont alough it

Joanne of Staten Island NY (01/08/09)
We purchased a time share in Cancun 2006, we have paid out of pocket over $10,000.00 and to date have received little to no services. I had my niece use the accomodations and they were so bad she had to check out and get a hotel. Also their sales reps use alcohol to get their prospective targets drunk to complete their scams.

I have refused to pay the past two months payments of $447.96 a month and will not pay the maintance fee of $800.00 which is due in March as this is definitely a scam.

Mary of Hamilton Square NJ (01/05/09)
Ongoing problems with website. I have been unable to search for and book a vacation due to a non-functioning website. Customer Service has been unable to solve the problem. The problem is not with my computer as they imply since I am having the same problem on 3 computers in my home as well as my work computer.

I am forced to pay yearly maintenance fees for a service that I cannot use.

Lyndsey of Mount Pleasant MI (12/27/08)
My husband and I had decided to take the credit card offer from Bank of America that had a partnership with RCI to earn rewards. Later on down the road we decided to cancel the credit card, unaware that we would also lose our rewards that we had accumulated with RCI. I don't understand why the rewards account was closed when those rewards were earned by us spending money, how can they take them away, even if we cancel our credit card?

We lost out on the rewards that we accumulated by using our Bank of America credit card and then canceling it. I'm not sure how much that even is worth because when I canceled the credit card, they also closed the RCI Rewards account. Lost all rewards.

Valentin of Huntington Station NY (12/17/08)
We have been members with RCI for about 2 years and have never been able to book a vacation with them. They NEVER have anything available comparable to what we gave them, which is a high end 2 bedroom lock off unit with a Master bedroom suite in Playa Del Carmen Mexico. I told my husband at the beginning of July 2008 to get on the phone and don't hang up till you book us a vacation through this place. He ended up booking us in February 2009 in the MOON PALACE in the Dominican that is set to open January 10th 2009.

I have a sixteen year old daughter by a previous marriage so she comes with us , and we usually bring a friend for her to hang out with. At the time my husband made these reservations the representative from RCI told him that it was a Jr suite, so he booked one suite for us with the timeshare week and paid a deposit to get an adjoining suite for my daughter and her friend. Turns out that my daughter's friend can't go with us that week so not wanting my daughter to be on vacation in a suite by herself, I paid a fee to RCI to cancel one of them.

Get the cancellation and decide to look at the fine print and realize we don't have a suite we have basically a hotel room as a trade for a two bedroom. I call RCI to see if I can get an upgrade to larger accommodations and RCI tells me finally after a dozen phone calls that the Moon Palace only gives them rooms and not the larger accommodations. So the best that they could do so my (second husband ) and my sixteen year old daughter aren't in the same one room for a week, is to rent another room for more money now and pay the all inclusive price for four people instead of the three people in our party.

I tried to call the Moon Palace directly to see if I could get an upgrade from them and they said they are not allowed to give upgrades to people that contract through RCI. The morale of the story is, I gave them my beautiful 2 bedroom to be crammed into a one room with three people and more money than if I booked it straight through the hotel at least I would have been able to get a one bedroom suite for less than I'm paying to keep my family in separate rooms on vacation.PS The RCI representative knew all along that he was just giving us a room and passing it off as a suite.


Marie of San Diego CA (12/04/08)
I've had my RCI timeshare for some 20 years and never had trouble getting reservations until 2008. Now it's constantly UNAVAILABLE, yet they keep selling more timeshares; i.e. more memberships. Actually, when I pretended I was interested in BUYING a timeshare, suddenly I was able to get reservations of my choice, albeit for only 3 nights/2 days, AT NO CHARGE. These people at RCI, Las Vegas are fleecing the owners who paid a fortune for their timeshares -- and the maintenance fees just keep going up every year!

Now I don't have the annual vacation I've been paying for, but RCI keeps selling timeshares for space that is NOT available in the first place. This is blantant FRAUD and must be stopped.

K of Chantilly VA (11/29/08)
My wife and I, unfortunately, purchased a Vacation Club membership with RCI/Raintree Vaction club. We were on vacation in Cabo at the Westin and were pushed into attending a sales seminar. We were plied with alcohol and hard-selled. My wife was very interested and I begrudgingly agreed. We didn't realize the scam until we got home and tried to schedule a vacation.

We've called over 10 times to make a reservation and everything is always sold out or unavailable. We're out of $12K and yearly maintenance fees. Outside of canceling the membership and eating the money, I don't know what to do. I'd like to be part of a class-action lawsuit against RCI, but I'm not a lawyer. They have scammed and stolen far too much to allow them to continue this obvious fraud. While I do bear responsibility for the purchase, I was not given what I paid to receive.

My wife and I lost about $14,000 total. We now have to find even more money during these tough economic times to pay our bills and plan any type of vacation. The intense stress and anguish I feel over wasting some of our savings is indescribable. My wife has cried numerous times about being swindled and being unable to receive any from of restitution.

Kam of Burnaby BC (11/29/08)
First of all Do Not buy time share from BlueBay or Temptation resort in Cancun. My story is too long to be told here but trust me. With this stupid 6000 poits rules its not worth it. I noticed some people have started a class action lawsuit. we would like to contribute to that.

Matthew of Sint Kat Waver OTHER (11/19/08)
We inherited our timeshares 4 yrs ago in the Canary Islands toegether with an RCI membership. We could exchange our weeks for RCI points to be used in exchanging for weeks of our choice. CHOICE ? There is no choice, I have NEVER EVER been able to get what I want in the exchange programme. I have only been to some magnificent photographs in their catalogue.

The RCI website works well, once you manage to get logged on, somehow RCI keeps changing our login and password codes. Anyway, RCI is a gigantic waste of time and I get positively sick even when I hear the name RCI.

We are now trying to cancel our membership with RCI, which is a near impossible thing to do. RCI has a stranglehold over you.

Scott of Centreville VA (11/14/08)
Have had the RCI timeshare for going on 4 years. Purchased when I was in my late 70's. I discussed then decided I was interested. This round-about conversation continued. I kept getting phone calls. I got promised different things and finally agreed and a contract was sent to me after paying $10,000. When I received the contract I again changed my mind. When I called to cancel within the 30 days the rep started making more promises such as an annual bonus week, which would only cost me the exchange rate.

I was promised I could go anywhere in the world yet everytime I try to book my week there never seems to be availability. I feel like I was prayed upon and have felt sick to my stomach every since. I told RCI I wanted to sell my timeshare and they said they could do it for $300. If it wasn't sold within so many days (I think 6 months) or if I sold it first then I would get my money refunded. I have called many times about that and get nothing but a run-around about it. I guess I didn't learn my lesson the first time. After you add up all the fees and then the exchange rate it is rather absurd. I would be better off just paying for a regular vacation going where I wanted in a quality hotel.

The facilities I seem to end up with are mostly dumps. Spent a week recently in Ormond Beach FL. There were roaches in the room. The young lady at the desk handed me a can of spray and said I could borrow it. I just wish I could get my money back and put it to better use. None of my children want anything to do with the timeshare so it isn't going to be handed down to them.

I JUST SUBMITTED THIS INFORMATION AND NOW FEEL YOU ARE PRAYING ON ME.

Scott of Centreville VA (11/14/08)
Have had the RCI timeshare for going on 4 years. Purchased when I was in my late 70's. I discussed then decided I was interested. This round-about conversation continued. I kept getting phone calls. I got promised different things and finally agreed and a contract was sent to me after paying $10,000. When I received the contract I again changed my mind. When I called to cancel within the 30 days the rep started making more promises such as an annual bonus week, which would only cost me the exchange rate. I was promised I could go anywhere in the world yet everytime I try to book my week there never seems to be availability.

I feel like I was prayed upon and have felt sick to my stomach every since. I told RCI I wanted to sell my timeshare and they said they could do it for $300. If it wasn't sold within so many days (I think 6 months) or if I sold it first then I would get my money refunded. I have called many times about that and get nothing but a run-around about it. I guess I didn't learn my lesson the first time.

After you add up all the fees and then the exchange rate it is rather absurd. I would be better off just paying for a regular vacation going where I wanted in a quality hotel. The facilities I seem to end up with are mostly dumps.

Spent a week recently in Ormond Beach FL. There were roaches in the room. The young lady at the desk handed me a can of spray and said I could borrow it.

I just wish I could get my money back and put it to better use. None of my children want anything to do with the timeshare so it isn't going to be handed down to them.

James of Hamburg PA (11/12/08)
My wife and I celebrated our anniversary in Gatlinburg, TN. While there we were offered a bunch of free tickets and stuff to sit in on a meeting. Before going we promised we wouldn't do buy whatever it was they were selling. While in the meeting, though, the sales agent made it sound like a dream come true. When we asked questions, his answers were perfect. Despite our previous vow not to buy in, we both readily agreed to the offer. After using our points twice, though, we have discovered it has been a huge waste of our money. Not only are we paying more than we would on a regular vacation, but we are not getting what we were promised. There are so many hidden fees and limitations on what you can do. If anyone can help me seek legal action against them, I would greatly appreciate it!


Craig of Red Deer OTHER (10/26/08)
I purchased weeks and points while on vacation in cancun at a blue bay resort. I had the sales manager, explain to me and answer questions of mine in details which are the complete opposite of the service I am recieving. Some of his answers must have been outright lies while some of the answers have been change due to this bait and switch that RCI and Blue Bay seem to have come to an agreement on.

What it comes down to is that I spent around $8000 dollars for some Blue Bay resort weeks that I was hoping to rent out for money through Blue Bay's rental program which was promised to me would happen from the sales manager(which later was explained to me could not happen anymore and that all I could get in return for renting my weeks is food and drink credit at their resorts) and that I could use my points without restriction through RCI to book flights and hotels, etc.

Well as all of you my points are now practically useless with the 60000 point maximum that has been imposed on us. A complete change from the service that I signed up for when I purchased my weeks/points from Blue Bay. Please let me know how I can assist in any type of class action lawsuit as I like all you others would just like to stop wasting my time and recuperate my money now.

Economic damages of about $8000 lost. Plus time and money spent trying to get explanations of why I am not getting what I paid for. 04/06/09 DEAR XXXX, MY ACCOUNT IS XXX. THE REFERENCE NUMBER IS XXX. IN MY PREVIOUS LETTER I GAVE YOU PROOF OF BIG CRIMINALS. AS YOU WILL SEE BELOW RCI ROBS PEOPLE AT WILL AND DOES NOTHING. I CAUGHT THEM REPEATEDLY ROBBING ME AND THEY DO NOT RESPOND.AS I SAID IN MY PREVIOUS LETTER,I WENT UP CHAIN OF COMMAND TO MR. BALLOTTI CEO WITH NO ANSWER.THEY CANT ANSWER BECAUSE IT WOULD ADMIT THEIR CRIMES.THIS IS NOT ABOUT GETTING 2 CHARGES BACK,IT IS ABOUT GETTING EVERY PAYMENT BACK THAT I HAVE EVER PAID RCI WITH THREE AMEX CARDS.THIS LIKE MR. MADOFF IS VERY SIMPLE TO PROVE. KINDLY TALK TO MR. BALLOTTI,CEO, AND ASK HIM IF HE OR HIS OTHER EMPLOYEES HAVE RESPONDED TO FRAUD CHARGES IN 9 MONTHS. AMERICA WOULD LOOK UP TO YOU IF YOU STOPPED ONE OF THESE BIG MONEY CRIMINALS. LIKE IN THE PONZI SCHEME,EVERY DAY IS MONEY LOST FOR TAXPAYERS. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER AND PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT.
Martina of Houston TX (01/19/09)
Well I was 18 years old. I went to one of the meetings I was hammered by this sells guy and being so young I was told that I couldnt leave until I signed the contract to get me started on my free vacations. I was stuck being hammered by 4 different sales people until 11:30 ant night, they kept going at me and going at me. My friend went with me to this meeting - and in the middle of pitch she said well you just got your tax refund so that would cover your start-up well one of the sales rep listened into your so called private talk and told the manager - so he offered up more free items that I never got.

I am 27 now - that was the worse mistake that I have ever made it destroyed my credit and my life. I used it one time and it was the worse vacation in my life. I spent over $4 grand on the lowest package; I had a family emergency and needed to get to my mothers. I called up RCI to exchange my points into Flight at that time they said I could, so they set it up.

A month later I tried to set up travel again and the RCI rep said we dont do that. after I told them they did it the month before she said that must have been the special for that month. I stopped paying after that. I tried to cancel my contract the RCI rep said I couldnt until I caught up with payments, and then I would have to pay a $496.71 cancel fee. They preyed on a kid and won. I have had to over come a lot in life and this taught me a VALUABLE LESSION! Always go with your gut!

So far it has kept my credit score below 470 - despite perfect payment on school loans. I cant get a loan on a new car or a house or credit cards - I cant build my credit until this goes away - and for some reason every 3 years they open it up and leave it open for a 5 years as delinquent. I cant claim bankruptcy because I dont have enough debit! Because I cant get any debt to mess up on! Talk about FRUSTRATING! I cant get married either because it will destroy my boyfriends credit to! If you are looking to get a timeshare DONT! It is a waste of time and MONEY! The average vacation for a couple 1 time a year is 700$ at a major city with a 5 star hotel! 800$ for a all-inclusive vacation in Mexico on the BEACH!

R of Kennebunkport ME (01/16/09)
RCI's main objective is to capture your weeks so they can make a commission on a trade. Their next objective is to charge you constantly increasing fees. Now they CHARGE your credit card for an exchange search. They will also call you until you go crazy about special offers. Oh, and you pay a yearly membership fee for this.


Mike of Whitman MA (01/09/09)
i was given a coupon for a free week, to use any where within 12 months. filled out coupon, sent it in with a fifthy dollar returnable deposit, only to have it rejected because no one that did the sales pitch to me, filled in the date of the sales interview, but they cashed my check no problem for my deposit.

my vacation plans are fouled up because i chose a certain week off from work to go to west virginia, when my kids are off from school, and i cant change that week because the company wont alough it

Joanne of Staten Island NY (01/08/09)
We purchased a time share in Cancun 2006, we have paid out of pocket over $10,000.00 and to date have received little to no services. I had my niece use the accomodations and they were so bad she had to check out and get a hotel. Also their sales reps use alcohol to get their prospective targets drunk to complete their scams.

I have refused to pay the past two months payments of $447.96 a month and will not pay the maintance fee of $800.00 which is due in March as this is definitely a scam.

Mary of Hamilton Square NJ (01/05/09)
Ongoing problems with website. I have been unable to search for and book a vacation due to a non-functioning website. Customer Service has been unable to solve the problem. The problem is not with my computer as they imply since I am having the same problem on 3 computers in my home as well as my work computer.

I am forced to pay yearly maintenance fees for a service that I cannot use.

Lyndsey of Mount Pleasant MI (12/27/08)
My husband and I had decided to take the credit card offer from Bank of America that had a partnership with RCI to earn rewards. Later on down the road we decided to cancel the credit card, unaware that we would also lose our rewards that we had accumulated with RCI. I don't understand why the rewards account was closed when those rewards were earned by us spending money, how can they take them away, even if we cancel our credit card?

We lost out on the rewards that we accumulated by using our Bank of America credit card and then canceling it. I'm not sure how much that even is worth because when I canceled the credit card, they also closed the RCI Rewards account. Lost all rewards.

Valentin of Huntington Station NY (12/17/08)
We have been members with RCI for about 2 years and have never been able to book a vacation with them. They NEVER have anything available comparable to what we gave them, which is a high end 2 bedroom lock off unit with a Master bedroom suite in Playa Del Carmen Mexico. I told my husband at the beginning of July 2008 to get on the phone and don't hang up till you book us a vacation through this place. He ended up booking us in February 2009 in the MOON PALACE in the Dominican that is set to open January 10th 2009.

I have a sixteen year old daughter by a previous marriage so she comes with us , and we usually bring a friend for her to hang out with. At the time my husband made these reservations the representative from RCI told him that it was a Jr suite, so he booked one suite for us with the timeshare week and paid a deposit to get an adjoining suite for my daughter and her friend. Turns out that my daughter's friend can't go with us that week so not wanting my daughter to be on vacation in a suite by herself, I paid a fee to RCI to cancel one of them.

Get the cancellation and decide to look at the fine print and realize we don't have a suite we have basically a hotel room as a trade for a two bedroom. I call RCI to see if I can get an upgrade to larger accommodations and RCI tells me finally after a dozen phone calls that the Moon Palace only gives them rooms and not the larger accommodations. So the best that they could do so my (second husband ) and my sixteen year old daughter aren't in the same one room for a week, is to rent another room for more money now and pay the all inclusive price for four people instead of the three people in our party.

I tried to call the Moon Palace directly to see if I could get an upgrade from them and they said they are not allowed to give upgrades to people that contract through RCI. The morale of the story is, I gave them my beautiful 2 bedroom to be crammed into a one room with three people and more money than if I booked it straight through the hotel at least I would have been able to get a one bedroom suite for less than I'm paying to keep my family in separate rooms on vacation.PS The RCI representative knew all along that he was just giving us a room and passing it off as a suite.


Marie of San Diego CA (12/04/08)
I've had my RCI timeshare for some 20 years and never had trouble getting reservations until 2008. Now it's constantly UNAVAILABLE, yet they keep selling more timeshares; i.e. more memberships. Actually, when I pretended I was interested in BUYING a timeshare, suddenly I was able to get reservations of my choice, albeit for only 3 nights/2 days, AT NO CHARGE. These people at RCI, Las Vegas are fleecing the owners who paid a fortune for their timeshares -- and the maintenance fees just keep going up every year!

Now I don't have the annual vacation I've been paying for, but RCI keeps selling timeshares for space that is NOT available in the first place. This is blantant FRAUD and must be stopped.

K of Chantilly VA (11/29/08)
My wife and I, unfortunately, purchased a Vacation Club membership with RCI/Raintree Vaction club. We were on vacation in Cabo at the Westin and were pushed into attending a sales seminar. We were plied with alcohol and hard-selled. My wife was very interested and I begrudgingly agreed. We didn't realize the scam until we got home and tried to schedule a vacation.

We've called over 10 times to make a reservation and everything is always sold out or unavailable. We're out of $12K and yearly maintenance fees. Outside of canceling the membership and eating the money, I don't know what to do. I'd like to be part of a class-action lawsuit against RCI, but I'm not a lawyer. They have scammed and stolen far too much to allow them to continue this obvious fraud. While I do bear responsibility for the purchase, I was not given what I paid to receive.

My wife and I lost about $14,000 total. We now have to find even more money during these tough economic times to pay our bills and plan any type of vacation. The intense stress and anguish I feel over wasting some of our savings is indescribable. My wife has cried numerous times about being swindled and being unable to receive any from of restitution.

Kam of Burnaby BC (11/29/08)
First of all Do Not buy time share from BlueBay or Temptation resort in Cancun. My story is too long to be told here but trust me. With this stupid 6000 poits rules its not worth it. I noticed some people have started a class action lawsuit. we would like to contribute to that.

Matthew of Sint Kat Waver OTHER (11/19/08)
We inherited our timeshares 4 yrs ago in the Canary Islands toegether with an RCI membership. We could exchange our weeks for RCI points to be used in exchanging for weeks of our choice. CHOICE ? There is no choice, I have NEVER EVER been able to get what I want in the exchange programme. I have only been to some magnificent photographs in their catalogue.

The RCI website works well, once you manage to get logged on, somehow RCI keeps changing our login and password codes. Anyway, RCI is a gigantic waste of time and I get positively sick even when I hear the name RCI.

We are now trying to cancel our membership with RCI, which is a near impossible thing to do. RCI has a stranglehold over you.

Scott of Centreville VA (11/14/08)
Have had the RCI timeshare for going on 4 years. Purchased when I was in my late 70's. I discussed then decided I was interested. This round-about conversation continued. I kept getting phone calls. I got promised different things and finally agreed and a contract was sent to me after paying $10,000. When I received the contract I again changed my mind. When I called to cancel within the 30 days the rep started making more promises such as an annual bonus week, which would only cost me the exchange rate.

I was promised I could go anywhere in the world yet everytime I try to book my week there never seems to be availability. I feel like I was prayed upon and have felt sick to my stomach every since. I told RCI I wanted to sell my timeshare and they said they could do it for $300. If it wasn't sold within so many days (I think 6 months) or if I sold it first then I would get my money refunded. I have called many times about that and get nothing but a run-around about it. I guess I didn't learn my lesson the first time. After you add up all the fees and then the exchange rate it is rather absurd. I would be better off just paying for a regular vacation going where I wanted in a quality hotel.

The facilities I seem to end up with are mostly dumps. Spent a week recently in Ormond Beach FL. There were roaches in the room. The young lady at the desk handed me a can of spray and said I could borrow it. I just wish I could get my money back and put it to better use. None of my children want anything to do with the timeshare so it isn't going to be handed down to them.

I JUST SUBMITTED THIS INFORMATION AND NOW FEEL YOU ARE PRAYING ON ME.

Scott of Centreville VA (11/14/08)
Have had the RCI timeshare for going on 4 years. Purchased when I was in my late 70's. I discussed then decided I was interested. This round-about conversation continued. I kept getting phone calls. I got promised different things and finally agreed and a contract was sent to me after paying $10,000. When I received the contract I again changed my mind. When I called to cancel within the 30 days the rep started making more promises such as an annual bonus week, which would only cost me the exchange rate. I was promised I could go anywhere in the world yet everytime I try to book my week there never seems to be availability.

I feel like I was prayed upon and have felt sick to my stomach every since. I told RCI I wanted to sell my timeshare and they said they could do it for $300. If it wasn't sold within so many days (I think 6 months) or if I sold it first then I would get my money refunded. I have called many times about that and get nothing but a run-around about it. I guess I didn't learn my lesson the first time.

After you add up all the fees and then the exchange rate it is rather absurd. I would be better off just paying for a regular vacation going where I wanted in a quality hotel. The facilities I seem to end up with are mostly dumps.

Spent a week recently in Ormond Beach FL. There were roaches in the room. The young lady at the desk handed me a can of spray and said I could borrow it.

I just wish I could get my money back and put it to better use. None of my children want anything to do with the timeshare so it isn't going to be handed down to them.

James of Hamburg PA (11/12/08)
My wife and I celebrated our anniversary in Gatlinburg, TN. While there we were offered a bunch of free tickets and stuff to sit in on a meeting. Before going we promised we wouldn't do buy whatever it was they were selling. While in the meeting, though, the sales agent made it sound like a dream come true. When we asked questions, his answers were perfect. Despite our previous vow not to buy in, we both readily agreed to the offer. After using our points twice, though, we have discovered it has been a huge waste of our money. Not only are we paying more than we would on a regular vacation, but we are not getting what we were promised. There are so many hidden fees and limitations on what you can do. If anyone can help me seek legal action against them, I would greatly appreciate it!


Craig of Red Deer OTHER (10/26/08)
I purchased weeks and points while on vacation in cancun at a blue bay resort. I had the sales manager, explain to me and answer questions of mine in details which are the complete opposite of the service I am recieving. Some of his answers must have been outright lies while some of the answers have been change due to this bait and switch that RCI and Blue Bay seem to have come to an agreement on.

What it comes down to is that I spent around $8000 dollars for some Blue Bay resort weeks that I was hoping to rent out for money through Blue Bay's rental program which was promised to me would happen from the sales manager(which later was explained to me could not happen anymore and that all I could get in return for renting my weeks is food and drink credit at their resorts) and that I could use my points without restriction through RCI to book flights and hotels, etc.

Well as all of you my points are now practically useless with the 60000 point maximum that has been imposed on us. A complete change from the service that I signed up for when I purchased my weeks/points from Blue Bay. Please let me know how I can assist in any type of class action lawsuit as I like all you others would just like to stop wasting my time and recuperate my money now.

Economic damages of about $8000 lost. Plus time and money spent trying to get explanations of why I am not getting what I paid for.

[Chap7 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Chap7]

Hey Slim, have you tried enlightening the folks at some of the other popular timeshare websites? Perhaps you'll be able to get through to someone over there because obviously it ain't happening for you here.

I suggest going with CAPS, bold, italics, underlines, 48 font red lettering and lots of exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Throw in a bunch of emoticons like this : Lastly, copy and paste these same testimonials over a few dozen times. That should get someone's attention.

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Or slim, if that doesn't work, you could get the point that people here also do not like RCI. No one here works for RCI and we do understand your frustration, even if we can't understand your writings. But, please stop the continual copy and pasting of the long posts. It doesn't do you any good. We have seen this type of information before.

Back off of the Madoff references, he doesn’t have anything to do with this. Get over the fact that people have money. It didn’t all come from you.

Discuss ONLY your directly affected issue. If it was your resort, your booking that was affected, fine. Otherwise, don’t tell me that a thousand people did or didn’t do something.

So many posts you have said that your signature is on some documents, but ‘they’ aren’t faxing the documents to you for your review. Then get a lawyer and get those documents. You have nothing to discuss other than there maybe documents with your signature or false documents, but since you have not seen them, there is no issue. Have that lawyer get copies of the times your unit was used and you did not profit from that week. But don’t keep repeating the same thing to us. We know, we have heard it. In some part, we agree. But since we are only getting bits and disjoined pieces, we cannot do anything for you. Talk to a lawyer.

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Well, at least we are not the only ones slim rants to.

OK, slim, one more warning. Unless you conduct yourself respectfully here, and treat others with respect and dignity, I will find you in contempt.




Pretend TS4Ms Justice of the Peace JLB

OK slim. I warned you. You give me no choice but to hold you in contempt of TS4Ms.

Bailiff, please escort the plaintiff to the lockup, and call the psychiatrist.

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[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

Mods,
Can Slim's repetitive postings (x2) be edited out ?
Just for G.P. ?
Thank you,
B.

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Rci crimes

I am giving repetive postings because all i am getting is the repeated needless insults. To any logical person the evidence is clear in what i showed you,but you completely ignore the evidence.there are so many people here who will defend rci no matter what the clear evidence here shows. If i dont get some support,i will be leaving here shortly. If blue bay owner here,kindly say hello and what happened to you. If anyone has complaints kindly let us know. You folks will see the truth shortly but you wont believe it. Go ask alice when she is 10 feet tall.

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I am giving repetive postings because all i am getting is the repeated needless insults. To any logical person the evidence is clear in what i showed you,but you completely ignore the evidence.there are so many people here who will defend rci no matter what the clear evidence here shows. If i dont get some support,i will be leaving here shortly. If blue bay owner here,kindly say hello and what happened to you. If anyone has complaints kindly let us know. You folks will see the truth shortly but you wont believe it. Go ask alice when she is 10 feet tall.

You don't get it, there's no one here defending RCI. Please leave, hundreds of members have viewed and tried to make sense of your ramblings and you won't quit and say anything that leads us to believe you are sane. Who knows what you are talking about with ilegals in your unit, who knows what you signed with that resort, you sure don't. Please leave.

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I am giving repetive postings because all i am getting is the repeated needless insults. To any logical person the evidence is clear in what i showed you,but you completely ignore the evidence.there are so many people here who will defend rci no matter what the clear evidence here shows. If i dont get some support,i will be leaving here shortly. If blue bay owner here,kindly say hello and what happened to you. If anyone has complaints kindly let us know. You folks will see the truth shortly but you wont believe it. Go ask alice when she is 10 feet tall.

We're illogical ? You can't even give a straight answer. Not once, not even a tiny little one without bringing in Madoff, Merrill Lynch, etc. Oh, you forgot to haul in Adam & Eve - the ones who got us here in the first place.

Illogical ? With us, you've been in contact with lawyers, a physician, Naval Academy grad, business owners, teachers, nurses/nurse practitioners. I guess we're just a bunch of illogical defenders of RCI.

Clear evidence ? Where ?

Try running your game over here: Timeshare Users Group - The first and largest online community of timeshare owners providing timeshare resort reviews, timeshare ratings, FREE timeshare advice and FREE Timeshare Classified ads! and see what those illogical folks have to say.

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I am giving repetive postings because all i am getting is the repeated needless insults. To any logical person the evidence is clear in what i showed you,but you completely ignore the evidence.there are so many people here who will defend rci no matter what the clear evidence here shows. If i dont get some support,i will be leaving here shortly. If blue bay owner here,kindly say hello and what happened to you. If anyone has complaints kindly let us know. You folks will see the truth shortly but you wont believe it. Go ask alice when she is 10 feet tall.

Promise?

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If blue bay owner here,kindly say hello and what happened to you. If anyone has complaints kindly let us know.

Slim,

Blue Bay owners will have now worked out that they need to talk to Blue Bay to address their problems and not RCI. Joys post #103 explains the situation well. The Blue Bay owners have enough problems, I doubt they would be interested in talking to you about RCI when it has nothing to do with their issues. As you have no relationship to Blue Bay there is little incentive for them to tell you their problems.