BBC expose Holiday Club Scams (Inside Out)

An edited down version of the recent BBC "Inside Out" report on holiday club scams that are ripping off holidaymakers to the tune of thousands of pounds.

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Travel & Events

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• bbc
• inside
• out
• holiday
• club
• timeshare
• mallorca
• majorca
• touts
• scratch
• cards
• palma
• nova
• scam
• con
• vacaciones
• wide
• plus

[corsar88]

MONEY BACK???? What a funny guys.....at least buy a membership and enjoy good prices....but money back, don´t be silly, don´t be greeedy.....

[electropentatonic]

5:12 Those are my favorite pens

[silmive]

I've just been to Gran Canaria and yes; there is a big industry with scamsters haunting for people along the beaches. Someone in my family did get carried away and ended up buying a holiday-package through Club Ambassador. Big mistake! If you ever meet up with someone representing this club, or Puerto Calma Club, STAY AWAY! The legal system in countries like Spain must have some serious loopholes when swindlers like this can continue this dirty business unpunished!

[GQ1022]

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[emmalmillar]

Wow, tarring everybody with the same brush. Typical media. There are many large holiday companies who don't scam people and don't pressure people and don't condone touts on the street. They run their business professionally with an aim to please the clients, yet this is the reward they get; being punished for the shocking practices of backstreet operating scam artists? Ask yourself this, are all car salesmen like Arthur Daley? It's a case of doing your homework and knowing who you holiday with.

[billrockloveyoujayne]

My mum did timshare its a living hell!! Now she gets no money and its horrible now we have lots our house our car but then again Im glad because she has learned a lesson she was stealing! and how do u think that made me feel? well I think u can imagen Now timeshare is hardly ggeting its way out of the crisis and police are taking all presentation areas down.If u see anybody with a scrach card just smile and walk away =) dont be a fool!!!

[midianholic]

What a bunch of suckers.

[iprotectconsumers]

Timeshares are a glorified ponzi scheme. Here is an example: Lets say a popular resort has 400 units in one building at a popular vacation destination. A year has 52 weeks and if each week is being sold for $25000 to consumers, the resort makes 52 * $25000 = $1.3 Million for one unit. For 400 units, the resort just raked in a whopping $520 Million in cash. With maintenance fees of $1000/year, the resort collects $52000 in maintenance fees/unit/year, totaling $20.8Million for 400 units.

[MURPHYJUNK]

its too bad the scum bags did not cheat someone that would go after them and beat the crap out of a few of the sales persons

[ashababe56]

I went through a scam like this, it was a work at home telemarketing scam! Beware!

[livordie4eelam]

may be u should expose illumanti!!!!!!!so many illumani videos,most of them reaching a view of one million and so obvious,but why doesnt bbc hasnt done anythin abou it!maybe i sound mad,but look deep u know how biased bbc gets at times!!!!!!!!