Make Timeshares illegal due to the deceptive, fraudulent practices used to Sell them!!!!

Make Timeshares illegal due to the deceptive, fraudulent practices used to Sell them!!!!

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August 9, 2021
Signatures: 7Next Goal: 10
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Started by Tia Miller

Please beware of IPetitions.com.  This site eliminated my first petition attesting to making timeshares illegal. I believe this site is influenced by those who would be negatively affected by this petition.  My original petition site at iPetitions was located at:

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/make-timeshares-illegal-due-to-the-deceptive

This petition was taken down by iPetitions so please ignore link to the above site. 

Actually, I have attached a photo of all the signatures I had gained on my  previous site at iPetitions in only a few hours. This is indicative of how the american public are tired of timeshares and their scams and here is a link as well:  https://1drv.ms/w/s!AmRlFqirg19LgyrxqA10ymNHZCyS?e=FdHN3j

This is my new petition site so please sign here and share this petition. In case this petition is taken down, I will create back up petitions and save the signatures so I will not be stopped.

First, I would like to state that this Petition will be going to the 1) Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Protection Bureau 2) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and the The President of the United States, Joe Biden. These agencies were put in place to protect its citizens from fraud, abuse, and financial scams, especially on such a massive level as Timeshares.    

This is the cries of the American people.  And we are asking that Joe Biden use his authority to implement an Executive Order to make Timeshares illegal.  After reviewing the following material, I am sure you will be convinced that such a dishonest industry needs to be obliterated entirely.  We are also asking that FTC file and enact legislation to recover the lost funds from its citizens to timeshares purchased under fraudulent means.

I also would like to say that I urge others to sign, share this petition and create petitions of their own to assert their rights.

Not only is the Timeshare industry victimizing many of its citizens, especially elderly, but the timeshare exit scams are making a twice victim of these consumers, because they are desperately seeking to exit their timeshares.

The Timeshare industry has become the biggest scam for hard-working individuals, the elderly and veterans. This industry targets those who makes a certain income bracket and deceive them into purchasing a contract with the promise of an investment in which they would receive a financial return and leaves very important details out which would be critical to the decisions of the consumers to purchase the contract in the first place. I was a victim of Westgate-Myrtle Beach Timeshare when I visited there to take a vacation last year with my daughter. I was lured into the timeshare presentation with the promise that it was a tour of the resort and I was told that it would be a 90 minute tour. I was promised a discount of the room and tickets to the nearby amusement park as an exchange. I was also asked my income, which I thought was quite strange. What I encountered was from a tour but rather a prolonged imprisonment in which my daughter and I was bombarded with requests to purchase a timeshare, although we had refused several times but that did not matter. The next day I arrived at the Westgate Myrtle Beach, I was told to come to the lobby to begin my tour. I was greeted by a Westgate representative name Marla and she guided us into a room in which she proceeded into a most vile unforgiving coercion of persistent grilling, implementing every method to get us to purchase a timeshare. I repeatedly told her I was not interested and informed her I was going to leave, however, she told me that I had to stay until she was finished. I later found out that I was only required to stay for 90 minutes but I was not told that I could leave after 90 minutes. We had been grilled by Marla for several hours, which detracted the time we could actually spend on vacation and we were ready to leave. After nearly four hours, we went on a tour to a unit and at this time, I agreed to purchase because my daughter and I was desperate to continue our vacation.

After we returned to the room which we dreaded, I refused again to purchase the timeshare. At this time, Marla went and fetched another man who started a new pitch all over again. We already had spent so many hours and we were ready to go on our vacation. Thus, I agreed to purchase. Once we entered the purchasing phase with Cathy Vanderbilt, I noticed that most of the paperwork to be signed was housed within an Ipad and the verbiage was very small and hard to read. During this time, I also asked about the interest rate and was told we would get to that later, which we never did. I proceeded to sign the documents and after I was nearing completion of the paperwork, I was told that there was a yearly maintenance fee of approximately $700. Later, I paid a maintenance fee of $1900, and after signing the paperwork, I was given a CD which housed all of my paperwork. This was done intentionally to hide the contents that was within, such as the interest rate, maintenance fee and how much it is and how it can increase every year, and when the Westgate owner dies, this debt is passed on to the children of the owners. None of this information I could view because I was given a disc and understandably did not bring a computer with me to view the contents of the CD. They know this and they are aware that you usually do not have a computer with you on vacation. This is why they avoided giving me the actual paperwork. I later found out that my interest rate was a whopping 18%, yes 18% and 75% of my payments goes to the interest, only 25% of my payment goes to the principal. Not only was I required to pay a monthly mortgage and maintenance fee, but whenever I wanted to take a vacation, I needed to come out of my pocket even more, paying at least a $399 deposit. Furthermore, I was told by other Westgate owners that they could never book travel when they wanted and was always told that the room was being used. During the pitch, I was given a pamphlet by Marla which indicated the vacation spots which I could take my vacation. I found out later that almost 1/4 of those vacation destinations did not have a Westgate and this was used to lure us into purchasing this timeshare. Thus, when I attempted to book at my desired destinations, I was told that I could not because there was no Westgate at those destinations. I also found out that I was only allowed to vacation every odd year, thus I could not take a vacation when I wanted as I was told during the pitch. I was also given coupons to take a vacation, none of these coupons were applicable, because I was told that they had expired although I was told differently (and had proof via email that the expiration date was November 2021 even when I tried to book on July 2021) however, the representative with whom I attempted to book the destinations told me that the coupons did not apply to the destinations I wanted to book and furthermore, only applied to very few destinations, undesirable destinations. I contacted Demetrice Davis at Office of Attorney General in Virginia and after submitting my complaint, told me that they did not have jurisdiction and cannot force westgate to exit my contract but would only negotiate. However, there was no negotiation or arbitration, once Nancy Emara, the Westgate attorney responded to my complaint, she closed my case and that was it. The same process occurrred with Melvin Watlington at South Carolina Consumer Affairs. They both closed my case without any arbitration on my behalf whatsoever, although they claim to be a consumer advocate office. They were most uncaring about the situation.

Furthermore, Westgate reported to my credit that they had closed the account after I hired an attorney, but this was just another trick. Since I saw that the Westgate account was a closed account, I did not make a payment. However, they reported on my credit that I had not made a payment, which bought my credit down. Westgate is relentless and evil and persistent in forcing every cent out of its consumers, although the consumers were tricked into the contract and not getting any return on their investment.

After doing research, I realized there are millions of hard working individuals, and elderly who were victimized by these timeshares. The timeshare professionals would do anything to get consumer to purchase a contract. They would lie, steal, cheat, or in someway 'kill' because that is exactly what they are doing to elderly who have worked their whole lives to save for retirement, only to be cheated out of their money they have worked for their whole lives. This society should not treat our elderly like this, for goodness sake. I have contacted Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the above mentioned persons at the agencies above, and they are not doing anything about this, thus this situation needs to be escalated to the President of the United States, and I ask that you implement an Executive Order to make timeshares illegal and keep them from victimizing many of its hard working citizens. I beg that you take these concerns seriously for I am speaking for millions, we need our money!

Here is an elderly woman cheated out of 14,000 from paying a fictional timeshare exit company, who saw that she desperately wanted to exit her timeshare contract. If there were no timeshares, these scams would not exist:

https://youtu.be/_tSE1Pdrq2Y


More elderly(who have cancer and heart problems) timeshare victims:

https://youtu.be/ROFvEb7C2q8

Couple is given alcohol to be made drunk in order to sign timeshare contract: https://youtu.be/fZs0y0D8SSs

Man purchase a timeshare and for 6 years, has never been able to use it:

https://youtu.be/S9qRLAoHPxg


Below are the results of my research and the cries of many thousands around the world needing rescuing from these timeshare crooks!


More Westgate scam reviews:

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/specific_search/Westgate

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/westgate.html


Also, please see this letter a Westgate owner has written: https://vacationownershipconsultants.com/three-time


See all the reviews by all those that Westgate has victimized: More Westgate scam reviews:

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/specific_search/Westgate

There are literally hundreds of facebook groups ( https://www.facebook.com/Dont.Let.Westgate.Rip.You.Off ) devoted to helping clients get out of their Westgate and other timeshares. These people are evil, they lie about everrything and anything to get people to buy their timeshares and none of what they said was true.

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/westgate.html

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate_Resorts
I have proven the character of this organization Westgate and the number of individuals they have victimized. This is not only an individual impact, this is affecting society on a global level and many others have been affected. Westgate has committed major fraud on a massive scale, similar to Charles Ponzi schemes and Enron.

I am asking the Federal Trade Commission, The President of the United States, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to make timeshares illegal.

Dave Ramsey's assessment of Timeshare Industry:

https://youtu.be/7PcAyClA3sc


https://youtu.be/3f7xhDOu_dk


Timeshare Salesman Tells All

https://youtu.be/At2A3pK8qUo
 

 

These sites are full of people complaining about how Westgate deceived and forced and pressured them into signing Westgate contracts:

https://www.complaintsboard.com/westgate-resorts-class-action-c226610?page=2#c2171578

 

https://www.classaction.org/news/lied-to-and-misled-westgate-resorts-ltd.-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-filed-by-hundreds-of-timeshare-buyers

 

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/westgate.html?page=3#sort=recent&filter=none


 

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