Got a call from a company called Club La Costa last week informing me that subsequent to returning a questionnaire in the past, we had won a holiday!!

 

A little surfing reveals that all is not what it seems!:

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/article/2003/jul/19/budgetingforyourholiday.scamsandfraud

 

Just a warning in case you've been offered the same!

 

Simon.

There's no such thing as free ;)

There's no such thing as free ;)

 

yeah tried to get some free love once :rofl:

yeah tried to get some free love once :rofl:

 

then you woke up and found the ring on your finger :rofl:

time share mate.

time share mate.

 

So it seems. Cheeky buggers have been phoning twice a day for past few days wondering why I haven't called back to book my place at their "exhibition" in london this weekend!

 

Simon.

then you woke up and found the ring on your finger :rofl:

 

Yeah but a ring of what????? :rofl: :rofl:

i used to work for a company who gave free holidays to couple who came and sat through a 3 hour presentation and an attempt to sell them timeshare... at the end of the night whether they bought the timeshare or not... they got their holiday vouchers... but omg what a holiday - eugh

They have been ringing me for weeks. I just say "hang on, thee's someone at the door" and then put the phone on the couch and carry on with whatever I'm doing until they fook off.

Went to a timeshare presentation once in Tenerife and ended up getting thrown out!. I told them I was unemployed to screw them up and the "manager" said I was lazy so I threatened to smash his face in. Didn't get our free tickets to the water park either :rofl:

I won a timeshare in Fuengirola with a 50% discount off these many years ago after entering a competion in a sunday magazine ,

Being a lowly panelbeater and having fook all savings i phoned them up to see what it was all about , basically seeing as i couldn,t afford to use my prize they suggested i could sell it , using the services of a soliciter for peace of mind to the buyer , it could have been worth upto 6k .

Would you buy a half price timeshare voucher from an add in the paper ?

i know i wouldn,t . :nono:

I let it go and forgot all about it till reading this :slap:

You know what they say .. if it seems too good to be true it probably is .