Stormy Point Village

[JLB]

At the bottom of this page:

http://www.bbb.org/southwestern-miss...040/complaints

there is an Industry Comparison chart you can click on. For the size of Summrwinds, no other company has had more than 25 complaints in the last 35 months. Summerwinds is, thus, the only one in the 100-plus complaint category.

[dougp26364]

I'm surprised the MO AG hasn't checked in on this one. As I remember, they were one of the more aggresive AG's at going after timeshare companies who were doing wrong.

[JLB]

I'm surprised the MO AG hasn't checked in on this one. As I remember, they were one of the more aggresive AG's at going after timeshare companies who were doing wrong.

That was Nixon; now it's Chris Koster.

It is election year, and there are other priorities.

But, what is being done is so blatant, and there are so many BBB complaints, that there has to be some to the AG as well.

I have some experience with filing complaints with the MO AG, and some interesting responses from some interesting companies. I would talk more about this, and about how I am sorta trapped around a lot of timeshare salespeople, and "marketers", the ones we have talked about for years, but not on an open forum.

I have learned to be careful because of prying eyes, hatefulness, and vengence on the Internet. I have nothing to gain and something to lose by getting involved.

[Sport]

A Florida man was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a timeshare resale telemarketing scam that involved 54 victims in southern Illinois.

Brian Christopher Morris, 46, of Boynton Beach, Florida was sentenced to 14 years in prison, five years of supervised release, fined $1,000 and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment fee.

Morris pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with telemarketing in February 2012.

The indictment alleged Morris and other were involved in a telemarketing scam in Florida that bilked more than 22,000 victims of $30 million in all 50 states.

Morris was a manager of Universal Marketing Solutions and later Creative Vacation Solutions in Palm Beach County, Florida. The scheme began in October 2007 and continued through January 2010.

Telemarketers called timeshare owners and falsely represented that the company had actual buyers for the owners' timeshare properties. They solicited advance fees up to several thousand dollars and promised they would be refunded once closing on the property occurred. Despite collecting fees from 22,000 victims, the indictment alleged the companies did not sell a single timeshare unit.

Several others have been charged and sentenced in the case.

[JLB]

I have had a few conversations with Pam Bondi, or those on her staff. I have told them it is nice that they are cracking down on resale scams, and although I understand how important it is to the State of Florida to appear to support the legitimate timeshare industry, it is, in fact, the shortcomings of the legitimate industry that has created the situation spawning resale scams.

I understand how she/they could not open the can of worms that (at least much of) the industry itself is a scam.



Yeah, the "No Exit Strategy" problem.
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Hey, Sport, how did you happen to find this?

Google?

[Sport]

KFVS-TV online edition....Cape Girardeau, MO.

[JLB]

KFVS-TV online edition....Cape Girardeau, MO.

That's how you found this site, and thread?

[Sport]

http://www.kfvs12.com/story/19689322...dWwSt8kQ.email

[JLB]

What I am asking is how did you find this thread about Stormy Point Village/Summerwinds, to know to post (Post #7)?

[Sport]

Yes, Google