Comments on: Four years after Vegas vacation, travel club tries to collect another $433

By: Harassed FCTW Customer

Harassed FCTW Customer — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:19:29 +0000

Check out http://www.myfloridalegal.com re: File No. L10-3-1177. The Office of the Attorney General Economic Crimes Division of the State of Florida is actively investigating FIRST CLASS TRAVEL WISE / FIRST CLASS CRUISE VACATION pursuant to Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.

By: Hotels accomodations

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By: Carlina Keeme

Carlina Keeme — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:41:01 +0000

I can’t beleive I fell for this scam! That’s what I get for being so trusting of other people. I’m a third grade teacher and I always tell my students that honesty is the best policy. Where did these people get their education? Oh, I know, “The School of Self-centeredness and Corruption.”
Please keep me in touch.
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By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:23:27 +0000

Don’t pay anything to this company. They are frauds and they are no longer in business as of 9-25-2009 .
http://sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?action=DETFIL&inq_doc_number=P04000170792&inq_came_from=NAMFWD&cor_web_names_seq_number=0000&names_name_ind=N&names_cor_number=&names_name_seq=&names_name_ind=&names_comp_name=FIRSTCLASSCRUISE&names_filing_type=

Dr. Christopher Greene is the head of this scam and the artist. I just wish a lawyer in Florida would start a class action suit against him and Monica his wife.

Contact Division of Consumer Services 850-488-2221 or file a complaint at http://www.800helpfla.com/travel_text.html

By: steve

steve — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:05 +0000

I entered wrong email should be sgjg68@cox.net

By: steve

steve — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:47:16 +0000

We got a call 6 months ago and one last night. We took a trip to Vegas at Imperial Palace April 2003. Said we owe $400.00 because we didn’t fulfill are agreement. both times asked to email proof. !st time said he would never heard. Last night my husbnad asked again said he would husband hung up he called back said why hang up said email said he could’t. Husband got upset and said fine send to collections. We don’t remember signing up for time share. Right after we signed up tried to cancel they would’t let us. Told him I called Imperial Palace and could get rooms 42.00 a night where they charged us $155.00. They already made money on us. The fellow calling was a number from Arkansas. Any help in what to do if they keep calling?

By: scammed

scammed — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:06:31 +0000

I to was contacted by them and the thing about the timeshare we never even did, nor ever heard about it..but they booked my name at Terrible.s and I am waiting for them to fax me a copy of my signature-which isn”t mine either.Terrible’s (talked to Richard Dudek) said that just today he had received many phone calls about the same scam..My advice-be real careful with your receipts,bills and don’t sign up for contests on the computer..and check your statements very careful..

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:30:04 +0000

I don’t get it. Why do people ever deal with these companies? Three timeshare tours? Is it really worth it?

By: Annette Tracy

Annette Tracy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:36:12 +0000

I too was contacted last evening around 8:45 pm by Florida Class-Leisure Time Travel and Summer Bay Resorts regarding a hotel stay with Tuscany Suites in Las Vegas in July of 2004. The same story, I hadn’t taken my timeshare tour and I was in default of my contract. In the first place I never would have agreed to take a timeshare tour anywhere! So I was not aware of this at the time I booked my reservations with some company on the internet, which at this time I do not know the name of! I was told I have to pay $496 last night or it would be turned over today for collections in the amount of $1500. At this moment I’m doing lots of research into this company and will be filing many complaints against them.

By: Smyth

Smyth — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:22:03 +0000

The address correction is Valdosta , sorry Wrong spelling

By: Smyth

Smyth — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:21:36 +0000

The address correction is Valdosta Georgia, sorry Wrong spelling

By: Marlene Smyth

Marlene Smyth — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:10:01 +0000

I received several calls from a Mike Thomas and Josh Mills telling me we owed $496.00 for a 90 minute presentation we did not attend in 2004 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Many threats and said not to mess with him as he would get me. Claimed he was associated with the Venetian Hotel and was going to cancel our credit rating, arrange a court case etc. and if we didn’t pay the $496.00 now it would be $4000.00. He also claimed to be a lawyer. We know this is a scam but very annoying as he says he can call us twice a day for 7 years. I have contacted the credit bureau and the F B I also the R.C.M.P. in Ottawa. The scary part is he has our credit card number which of course has been canceled. Of interest to all of you I got his name, address and email. Josh MIlls Leisure Time World Wide, 2904 North Patterson St., Suite G, Valbosba, Georgia, 31602. Email Leisure time World ymill.com

By: LDW

LDW — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:07:09 +0000

In Sept of 2008, we purchased a vacation package deal and prepaid for the package. The terms of the agreement are that we must take the trip or extend the package within 18 months. We received a call tonight from FCTC, a representative who identified themselves as a legal office calling on fraudulent accounts and that we must pay another 600+ dollars since we did not take our trip or extend our package within 12 months. My fiance dealt with them for the first 30 minutes or so and tried to explain to them that we only purchased it a year ago, and our agreement states 18 months that we have to take it. They kept insisting that he needed to pay more money or they would file a lawsuit against us, and they called my fiance a liar because he told them that our package was not expired yet. I took the phone from him as he was very upset at this point (his God Daughter was killed in a car accident this morning) and he just couldn’t deal with their aggressive behavior towards him. I apologized for getting into the conversation so late and asked them what was going on. They basically told me that they needed authorization to charge our credit card for more money. I asked them why since our package was not up, and asked them to point me to the place in the contract where it stated that we only had 12 months. He tried a few times to direct me to the spot, and then made the comment that they have several different versions, but insited that we were fraudulent. I then read our agreement to him so he could understand what exactly it is that we bought. Nowhere in that document that I read to him did it support what they were saying to us, but still insisted that we were fraudulent. The representative then put another guy on the phone, as I heard him say “Dude, seriously you gotta do something or I’m gonna do something to somebody”. I understood this to mean that he was just as frustrated as we were, but I also felt a little threatened. The next guy that got on the phone proceeded to call me a liar and tell me that we were trying to pull something over on their company, and that they are going to take us to court. I offered to fax them the contract that we purchased, but he wasn’t interested in that, he just kep telling me that I was lying. I asked to speak to his boss and he responded that he is as high up as I could go in that company and that he is the director of their legal department. I commented that I was surprised that a director of a legal department calls customers liars and isn’t interested in seeing the documentation. He threatened to hang up on me, so I hung up on him. We didn’t ask for them to call us in the first place, or to argue with us and insult us. About 5 minutes later they called back and wanted us to fax the contract so they could use it against us when they take us to court. He clearly did not call back to attempt to resolve the issue, he just called back to threaten us again. I told him that I was done dealing with him and that I will follow up with consumer affairs.

Luckily, we never authorized any additional charges, as we were quite confident in the agreement details and that we were not in default of our agreement.

I also called the credit card company and informed them that we are not authorizing any charges from them in case they attempt to charge us anyway.

By: KM

KM — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:27:57 +0000

I also was a victim of fraud and extortion from First Class Travel Wise (FCTW) on Saturday, Sept. 19 when I was coerced into agreeing to pay them a total of $992 to extend two travel packages I had purchased from them a year ago because I had not taken any trips. After being threatened to be reported to the three credit bureaus for failure of payment, I was under duress and quite obviously in tears in fear of them ruining our excellent credit rating when I gave them a Chase Visa credit card number, and recorded and also signed and faxed them an agreement to pay.

However, today I read all the documentation I received from them a year ago and it indicated that my package was PAID and stated, “Your package will be extended 18 months at a time, as long as you need. And there is no charge to extended (sic) current package.” There was nothing anywhere about an obligation to take any of the trips. So I emailed them requesting proof of their claim. I also tried calling them several times and only got recordings from all four departments I tried, and the Legal Department’s mailbox was full.

So I looked online and found more than 100 complaints on multiple sites about this company scamming, intimidating and threatening people, including stories of their not honoring the very same refund offer I had just agreed to. So I called Chase and removed authorization of the credit card payments.

I just received a threatening call from a FCTW representative. I told him that I read all the info about their scam online and cancelled my credit card payment. He said he had a recorded authorization and threatened to file a fraud report on me. I said “Good luck, I’d rather pay a lawyer than you.” and hung up.

I emailed Equifax with an explanation of what happened, hoping that they will believe a long-time customer with excellent credit over a shady company with an “F” BBB rating and scores of complaints online and with Florida’s Division of Consumer Services, including mine. I also learned that their license expired in February 2009 so they were actually doing business illegally when they called me on Saturday. Hopefully that will be the end of it.

By: Jo-Anne Barrett

Jo-Anne Barrett — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:46:04 +0000

We live in Ireland and received a phone call from Florida Travel and Tour about a fantastic deal. Package details have arrived in the mail and it appears to be same guy, we are to call First Class Travel Wise to make reservations. My mum gave her credit card details to hold the package for $489. She was told that she can cancel within 30 days and she will get a full refund. We are mailing the details back to them today but have also contacted credit card company to investigate.