Grand Vacation Club Con (The Grand Vacation Club (GVC))

Member Name: toney

Product:	The Grand Vacation Club (GVC)
Date:	26/03/03 (2426 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: Everything

Having received the phone call saying we had won a free holiday we went to the so called forty minute presentation which in fact lasted nearly 3 hours. We decided to purchase 70 points but were told that even though we are a family of 6 and have only ever holidayed in Florida we only needed 50 points we were also told that if at anytime we wanted to sell the points we could sell them back to the company at a 15% loss.

We proceeded with the purchase and went on our free holiday to the Costa Del Sol where we were once again given the hard sell to buy another 20 points "at last years prices" the price being £5 per point more than we had paid 8 months earlier.

19 months into our membership and never going anywhere we have decided that this is not something that we want to be involved in as we do not have enough points for a family of 6 to actually stay anywhere that we want to go. We are tired of the continuous phone calls to buy more points and believe me they don't take no for an answer. We wrote to GVC and asked how we go about selling the points and received a letter saying that they no longer buy back the points and they must be converted into weeks which can then be sold to other people.

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