Timeshare Chat Costs British Couple £3,000
by Transfer America on December 7th, 2010
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Timeshare Company Resolve Marketing's home office
In one of Great Britain’s leading publications, The Daily Mail, today was an article selected as “Readers’ Champion” about one couple’s meeting with a timeshare company called Resolve Marketing.
A man who refers to himself as B.J.T. tells his story of a chance meeting with the Marketing company and Bavington Consultants Limited where they chatted about selling the timeshare he owned with his wife.
They told him that Bavington was an agent for a Manx Company, Telos, that was going to build a new and luxurious hotel in Cornwall and told us that we would get £3,500 for the unwanted timeshare in our possession if we invested in the new hotel. They told us that all we had to was simply place a small down payment on my wife’s MasterCard and when they took our card, allegedly to check it, they came back saying that the entire deal had gone through and we had been charged a total of £2,995.
We soon left after the pressure sale and realized that we would need to mortgage our home if we did not get our money back, but as you probably expected, we were unable to do so. The only thing we knew at this point was that we had to find a way to get our money back.
Armed with no other information aside from this, the couple began their search. First, they found that Resolve Marketing was nothing more than a website and the phone number on the site did not appear to work any longer. After reporting this information to The Daily Mail, they began to do some investigating.
They started by contacting Bavington, who was not legally allowed to charge the credit card without reaching an agreement to do so with the client. With this information, the publication contacted HSBC, the credit card issuer, and they agreed that inappropriate unauthorized action had taken place and therefore, would be refunding the money back to the couple’s account.
Now several of the men behind Bavington, such as John Wiseman, Maurice O’Sullivan, and Spencer John Golding have been court ordered and face mounting charges. When approached for comments, Wiseman simply said, “We do not advise people on the suitability of a business transaction. We act as agents for the developer and introduce them to the opportunity.”
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