Comments on: Costa del Con

By: Lisette

Lisette — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:44:42 +0000

Hi, to anyone having complaints re. Full Circle Holidays. You can talk directly to the owner Ms Fiona Louise Darroch. The office is in Arroyo de la Miel (Benalmadena Costa), Avenida de la Constitucion 1, top floor, first office to the righthand side. Ms Darroch has a criminal record re. fraud (she had a court case in Tenerife) and stalking a former ex-employee (court case in Torremolinos). Busy with money laundring since a decade, owing several bars and pubs in Benalmadena Costa, the money goes straigt to a bank account (Jiskey Bank) in Gibraltar. Why Spanish banks and the tax authorities are not investigating on her is something very strange. If anyone out there wants to go to the national police in Malaga, at least they have some information to take with them.

By: Patricia West

Patricia West — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:15:43 +0000

I was taken in, like many other people, by the ETOO/Club Class Concierge scam and payed out sums of money to get rid of our time share. I thought I had at last closed the door on the whole sickening incident.

Today I had a phone call from someone calling himself David Wall, telephone number 01942 498017. He said that after the Watchdog Investigation I would be getting my money back and payment for the time share. He then went on the mention a transaction fee. I told him that if money was due to me, I was happy to have it, but that I would not be paying anyone a single penny in regard to this time share business. He hung up.

I doubt there will be any money paid to my account and strongly suspect this is yet another money grabbing scam.

Trish West

By: Sandy Grey

Sandy Grey — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:41:19 +0000

If you are a victim of Club Class Holidays/Concierge then look at http://www.timeshare.org.uk/hc.html

Sandy Grey
Timeshare Consumers Association

By: kev

kev — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:07:57 +0000

we where nearly con but we did.rt have anought money in the account we gave them our details and a deposit of £100 .they ask us to put the rest in when we got home which we agreed .we signed up to ccc .we went home and change our bank details so they could not take any money out .now they say we owe them £4900 and will be taking legal action .THE NAMES ARE ANDY DIXON .JOANBE ALLEN DIRECT NUMBER )0034922724564 )in emergencies BECKY HARRIS on (0034922715771) address is G B MARKETING AVDA BRUSELAS S|N.CC FANABE PLAZA.L237.ADEJE.TENERIFE.tel 0034922-724564 fax 0034922-714060 this mite be all bu****it but you could try if you was con good luck

By: Colin B

Colin B — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:04:20 +0000

We faxed the court claims to CCC & they have paid the money owing to the resort. Pity they didn’t do it sooner.

By: Colin B

Colin B — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:48:40 +0000

Thanks Gary, but it’s the people from Pueblo Evita in Benelmadena & their sister company in Tenerife which we joined in 2002, who write & phone & say they’ll take us to the small claims court becaus they say we’re still responsible for maintenance fees. CCC say not to worry just keep sending any correspondence to them, CCC, as we’ve handed the deeds over to them (for a price). It seemed the only way to escape from our timeshare & RCI Points, who are also chasing us. We are still hoping we are in with a chance of the cashback in 2011.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:20:16 +0000

Colin, so far CCC have never taken anyone to court because they know once they start operating under UK Law they haven’t got a leg to stand on. If you visit ‘Holiday Watchdog’ site and search Club Class Holidays you’ll see lots of others like us and plenty of advice going back 2 years!

By: Colin B

Colin B — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:40:07 +0000

The timeshare we traded to CCC say they’ll take us to the small claims court. CCC say we can’t be sued for non payment of maintenance fees. Please, which is true?
We get letters & phone calls saying we’re still responsible for payment, which goes up each month. We’re afraid to answer the phone. We say we’ve handed the deeds to CCC.
We believe in being honest. We’ve always paid our debts.
This puts us in a bad light, gives the family a bad name.
To think, we joined CCC primarily to be free of our timeshare & RCI Points

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:23:39 +0000

We have been in touch with the European Consumer Council who believe that when people have been conned in the same way we were they may be able to fight a case under Doorstep Trading Law in Spain, plus if you actually signed the contract on the trader’s premises that also contravene’s European Law (although this has been untested as yet). Write to;
European Consumer Centre
1 Sylvan Court
Sylvan Way
Southfields Business Park
Basildon
Essex
SS15 6TH

They are very helpful and promise to reply within 2 weeks of your query with them. The more of us there are for them to fight a case against GB Marketing, Club Class Concierge and all the other associated companies the more powerful the case, and even if we don’t get any money back we might be able to close the swines down (for a while at least)

By: ndy and Jenny Collins

ndy and Jenny Collins — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:48:38 +0000

Hi everyone, We too were taken by CCC. We were contacted by DGS Brokers first, who said they had a buyer; which did not materialise. This was after paying a ‘Holding fee of 1200 Euros[ which we were told that we would get back] We didn’t. Then we were forwarded to another ‘Buyer’, had to pay more money; but turned out to be another Time Share for Full circle Holidays, which they said would make it easier for us to sell our original Time share with Club Greece ‘Sun Beach Holiday Club’ Yes we were Gullible, we are not greedy people, all we wanted was a fair price for ‘our’ Time Share. Next we were contacted by Club Class Properties, who said that they had a Buyer for both of our Time shares, They wanted us to go to Malaga to pick up the money for the Time Shares, but we only had a short time in which to this. Yes you’ve got it… Club Class Concierge. NO MONEY, Just wanted us to buy into their deal. We signed over our deeds, after nearly 7 hours of talk. Only gave them a small amount of Euros as a down payment. Once back in UK,said we did not have the money. They gave us a while, then said they would sue; so we said Go Ahead, we have no money. We were lucky, we only lost £1500.
Has anyone been contacted by ‘Key Properties Town Advisory S.L’ Are they legit? They said they are Solicitors who are going after CCC,DGS Brokers; and the rest. They want a small fee of 788.80 Euros to retain a fully qualified lawyer to take on our case, and others. Then take 10% of what we get back. This sounds too good to be true, What are your thoughts… Also ‘Selling Time’ has made enquiries about our time share, does any one have anything on them also. Please advise. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE THAT HAS BEEN TARGETTED. iT’S ABOUT TIME THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE PUT IN PRISON.