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eal wrote: *I have to agree with Pixie and Mima, Geoholiday is an excellent and responsive timeshare points company. The sales pitch that I attended was clearly described as a 90 minute affair, and it was not a minute longer. We did win receive a free vacation, and we went to Lake Tahoe for a week where we had a great time. We were the only ones that purchased a membership that night, but the sales staff treated everyone else with courtesy and respect. I have been a member for a few years now and I continue to get great service and great vacations from Geoholiday. They add new resorts to their portfolio on a regular basis and disassociate themselves from ones where the standards have dropped. I am sorry that some of the posters had bad experiences but my experiences have been totally positive. * Be very careful about posts like these. I suspect it is from somebody who works for GEO Holidays pretending to be a satisfied customer, which is a common Internet marketing tactic which takes advantage of the anonymity of postings. Beware falling for this dishonest tactic! -- ae871 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ae871's Profile: 650 View this thread: 22540 |
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eal wrote: *I have to agree with Pixie and Mima, Geoholiday is an excellent and responsive timeshare points company. The sales pitch that I attended was clearly described as a 90 minute affair, and it was not a minute longer. We did win receive a free vacation, and we went to Lake Tahoe for a week where we had a great time. We were the only ones that purchased a membership that night, but the sales staff treated everyone else with courtesy and respect. I have been a member for a few years now and I continue to get great service and great vacations from Geoholiday. They add new resorts to their portfolio on a regular basis and disassociate themselves from ones where the standards have dropped. I am sorry that some of the posters had bad experiences but my experiences have been totally positive. * Be very careful about posts like these. I suspect it is from somebody who works for GEO Holidays pretending to be a satisfied customer, which is a common Internet marketing tactic which takes advantage of the anonymity of postings. Beware falling for this dishonest tactic! -- ae871 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ae871's Profile: 650 View this thread: 22540 |
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So much for posting a dissenting opinion! (and not the only one on this thread I might add). You will just have to take my word for it that I am a satisffied customer, nothing more, nothing less. This board should be just that - a place to post my opinion for others to read and consider. -- eal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eal's Profile: 641 View this thread: 22540 |
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So much for posting a dissenting opinion! (and not the only one on this thread I might add). You will just have to take my word for it that I am a satisffied customer, nothing more, nothing less. This board should be just that - a place to post my opinion for others to read and consider. -- eal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eal's Profile: 641 View this thread: 22540 |
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Hi everybody, This is the letter I have sent to GEO Holidays 2 days after signing a contract which ruined my life and cause mental duress and pressure for us. I am waiting for their reponse now and I get ready to go to the court to fight for our rights. Please be away from these people and don't be fool by free vacation package. We are victims of these vacation scams and are trying to recover from that devastating presentation. Thanks, and again Keep yourself safe and away form GEO Holiday. To: GH Marketing Inc. 2225 Sheppard Ave. E., 18th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M2J 5C2 December 16, 2004 Dear Sir/Madam, Please accept this letter as a cancellation of the Purchase Agreement Contract for vacation club membership with GH Marketing Inc. signed by us, our names removed, on Dec 12th 2004. We, our names removed by canceling the vacation club membership purchase agreement contract consider no obligations under the contract and all authorized money withdrawal are assumed void effective now. This cancellation is done within the five days grace period provided in the contract and is based on the following reasons: - The contract was signed under undue influence by the sales people gathering around us at the time of presentation and no time was provided for consulting, studying the terms of the contract, looking at the vacation package materials, calculating the worthiness of the deal. - We were solicited by phone and offered a free vacation package with no obligation for attending a promotional presentation for a maximum of 90 minutes starting at 12:30 Sunday Dec 12th 2004. The arrangement for our child babysitting was for that timing and the whole session was extended to 4 PM and put us under high pressure to leave the place as quick as possible. The salespeople were frequently insisting on that matter that we get all the benefits only and only in that presentation which led us to unwise, influenced and wrong decision. - The most important materials of the vacation package were not presented to us before signing the contract which would definitely affect our decision for contract consideration. This includes, but is not limited to, vacation credit charts showing the worthiness of the credits for vacation resorts, the time and size limitations of the vacation places and hidden costs of reserving the vacations. - There were several numbers of misrepresentations during the presentations including, but not limited to, showing the lowest credit needed for a resort like the one in Mexico for 4500 credits which would only happen under specific conditions not mentioned in the presentation. Certainly this led us to a misjudgment about the worthiness of the credits we get. - The financing options and the total money due were not clearly communicated and there were confusing dollar numbers in US and Canadian currencies. We were not allowed (by frequent interruptions by salespersons) to discuss and consult with each other the affordability of such a financing and the effect of that on our lifestyle. We have just bought a house and and already have so much liability. This was only realized when taking a moment of thinking out of the presentation place and away from the sales people. - My request to talk and consult with my wife in Persian (our first language) to clarify the terms and conditions was interrupted and broken by representatives to mention several times, over and over, that they are giving us away a free club membership in somewhere in Ontario (which later at home we realized is far away from our home and is only to use a park). The continuous interruption by representatives, which do their job very well, to remind us of ridicules promotions over and over, led us to be mentally incapacitated persons and therefore unable to give the situation a little thought. - Most of the presentation time (about 2 hours) was spent on showing the beautiful resorts and flexibility and freedom of owning such vacation memberships and we were frequently told that we could have our dream vacations every year anytime anywhere which is a total misrepresentation and might only happen with very high credits and continuous hassling of checking the last minutes deals and spending most likely some extra money on them. On the other hand, there was only few minutes (about 15 minutes) allotted for talking about our obligations and expenditure. - The vacation club obligations were not presented to us in the so called presentation meeting. All the important material which would affect our decision were in a closed binder delivered to us only after signing the contract and up on leaving. Of course we were not aware of such things to ask for them and it is a hiding of material which misled us in signing the contract. Even after reading the fine prints about the club’s obligations we are still wondering if there exists any obligation by the club and concluded the contract as a one way contract for the benefit of the club and no contract consideration for us. The contract and material presented to us do not show at all what would happen if the club ceased to offer their services to us. Our reasons are not limited to the above mentioned and all in all the Sunday presentation turned out to be a devastating event for us later on instead of getting a free vacation package. This contract by no means has any benefit to our family and has already put hardship and monetary problems for us and ruined some of our belief to Canadian companies leading to fear and anxiety. By canceling this contract, which by any measure of law, fairness and human conscience is our absolute and non disputable right, GH Marketing Inc. or GEOHoliday or whoever responsible for that is obligated to reimburse us all the money withdrawn from our accounts and consider all of our obligations void effective now. We reserve our right to make a complaint to proper authorities and take every necessary course of action to claim financial damages, if not fully rectified, and report our mental duress and hardship this unsolicited invitation for a free vacation package has caused to our family Regards, -- hnparmis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hnparmis's Profile: 659 View this thread: 22540 |
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I received a nice call too exactly as described by many others. I’m the kind of person that believes nothing is free in this world. However, this scam made me hesitate. Thanks to the information I found here, I’m now 101% sure there is nothing free in this world. This scam tries to get people’s attention, and then by extreme 90mins physiological pressure, they make you sign a contract, which you will regret for the rest of your life. I don’t know why the government tolerates this. Thanks so much everybody!!! -- yan-yan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yan-yan's Profile: 686 View this thread: 22540 |
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I was this close to going because they said you don't have to buy anything to get 2 free dinners at local mid-class restraurents in town, 2-3 days free in the Laurentians and a chance at either 2 year free lease on a BMW or 10,000 in cash right away if they key they give us starts it or opens the door. I called Neelam back at # provided 1-866-231-5550 x.239 and had to leave a msg. to cancel our apt. Very strange that they don't let kids in and you need to go as a couple. The kids thing should have be enough warning but my wife was really taking by Neelam. She Neelam said to me they pick 2 couples to give these prizes away to and they relly on word or mouth instead of advertisement... . BS!!!The manager that gave me directions was named Raoul. Another thing I found weird was when we setup the meeting there was a 10:45,12:45 & 2:15 timeslots? If their only giving prizes to two couples why so many timeslots. They said we need photo ID like drivers license or Ohip card. I usually always say no, no, no and have a nice day to any salesperson on the phone and just about fell for this one. My wife being so excited about helped a bit though. So if you are reading this remember if there's anything weird about any type of offer like they have giving you it's because its BS!!!! To quote Monthy Python Holy Grail's Frenchman --- "I fart in your general direction" GeoHolidays Services. -- Flyers1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flyers1's Profile: 692 View this thread: 22540 |
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In Toronto – Thanks, if I did not see this forum, I may have wasted some very valuable time. I got a similar narrative, “…lease on a BMW or 10,000 in cash right away if they key they give us starts it or opens the door…”. But, I was warned the BMW may be gone, but there was another car to choose from. The caller also babbled on about a vacation prize. If I win a prize, my whole family must be allowed to be present. The contact name I got was Karen at 416-964-2158. I hope this posting helps someone whose time is as valuable as mine.
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