Comments on: Vacation Ownership

By: EJ

EJ — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:29:28 +0000

IF THE OFFER IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS. Got a similar offer from Club Ultima and after going to their office and reading the blogs above, it’s a blessing that we didn’t get to sit in to their presentation and shell out our hard-earned money. CLUB ULTIMA and the likes, in our opinion, is the ULTIMATE MARKETING SCHEMERS who thrive on deception and half-truths!!!

By: EJ

EJ — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:15:41 +0000

Got a similar call from Club Ultima (that i won 3d2n stay…) Went to the place and was asked to fill-up a form w/ questions that I felt were discriminating (i.e., what’s your status in life, are you living together? for how long?).. huh??? what kind of question is that? I asked the girl what the purpose was and she said it was just a marketing survey. Although, I was not in that “status”, it was the first time, I’ve seen a survey that asked such a question and it made my suspicion rise about how “legit” their offer was. I didn’t get to listen to the presentation which I now think as a blessing as my husband (who refused to come to what he knows to be a marketing scam/ploy) didn’t go with me and the club didn’t even want to present to me the offer when I was alone. This is one time that I’m glad that my husband “told me so”. Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences about similar marketing ploys. IF THE OFFER IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS!!! Read the blogs above and learn that it’s not really worth your time and money. What the “club” is offering is not really free. There is always a catch to it… CLUB ULTIMA and the likes… YOU ARE THE ULTIMATE IN MARKETING SCAMS!!!

By: Hannah Torregoza

Hannah Torregoza — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:33:19 +0000

hi noemi! i was surfing the net about crown regency because my mom and i got to register. tapos ang registration is P10,000!!! sabi ko sobrang mahal. we have not yet paid the P10 k kasi wala naman akong money that night and even if i did i wont pay. the prob is my mom got easily swayed and even if i dont want to apply as a member she wanted it…i dont know how to convince her. but good thing i have not yet paid. i want to figure out how i can backout

By: SEL

SEL — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:44:39 +0000

Wow it’s just now that I got curious of looking for this time share scam as I was, well maybe “victimized” by this scheme in the sense that I had to spend the whole evening till the wee hours of the morning of the next day with these people selling timeshares and yes they want you to decide on the spot to buy the packages..My gosh the packages were already worth buying a property and of course like what you said it’s not one thing you decide immediately..The invite was like we won a buffet dinner in a decent hotel in Mand (I forgot the name) and we had the dinner had this grueling 5-7 hours with the sales person who looks down at company paid business trips (it’s nothing compared to real vacation which is somehow true) but of course business trips are good deal already having the experience of going to another country…
we declined to get any package and we got a gift cert instead- a 2 week stay in a Brazilian hotel…now going to Brazil is our problem..this scheme is a big waste of one’s time.

By: ruth

ruth — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:58:54 +0000

I just got a call from club ultima, and thanks for sharing this. It’s way too expensive to get a good vacation in the country than in another country.
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By: Rita

Rita — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:36:53 +0000

Hi, I also received a call like that offering free Hotel accomodation. When we got to A Venture Suites in makati we we’re seated at the granvcia cafe resto to have a dinner buffet (salad, bacon – tomato pasta, beef & vegetables, some sort of mocha brownies and iced tea) I had to sign a form that we’ll get the buffet dinner for two plus the Hotel accomodation certificate if we agreed to listen to a 90-min. AV Presentation. During the presentation they offered us a vacation ownership amounting to around 275,000 for 25 yrs. with RCI affiliation. You get one week at their A Venture Suites or can exchange it with international destinations, but you have to pay around 11K for international, 9K for asia-pacific and 5K for domestic. Aside from that you have to pay for ‘Maintenance’ which is 8K, plus you have to pay for the so-called ‘get-aways’ brochures (I think you get 2 every 3 mos.) cost 4.5K. The get-aways as far as I understood it are unlimited and you can avail them aside from your 7days. Of course we declined, we still got the GC. We already have flight tickets to Bangkok in october which I bought way back in february, and that was the only reason I attended this: to get the GC. I’m a bit doubtful about this GC but will see if its real and if there is any further catch to this. please, if anyone was already able to refund the booking fee please let me know. Thanks!

By: liza

liza — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:04:10 +0000

Yes, I also got a free gift cert and Im planning to use it. Is the 5K really refundable? Can anyone give confirmation they did get refund after the free nights?

By: Gina Escalona

Gina Escalona — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:54:57 +0000

hi! i just wuld like to know if you continue your membership with crown regency hotel coz’ im in a same situation as yours though yours is almost a year ago. i just signed up yesterday and also thinking to cancel it.

thank you.

By: Gina Escalona

Gina Escalona — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:48:33 +0000

hi! im having a second thought to continue our membership with crown regency hotel. we just signed up yesterday. i’l really appreciate if you will share your experiences as a member of the hotel.

thanks. hope to hear from you soon.

By: juliet

juliet — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:13:08 +0000

I attended the seminar last night.. i find it expensive.

How about yung 5k refundable booking fee totoo ba? actually the package they offer is not worth it.. their package now is 100k for 8 years plus 6k for yearly maintenance fee(whatever they call it). for 7 nights accomodation, it will be an approximate of 19,000 per year.
(19k multiply by 8 years = 100k + 48K (6k x 8 years)

19,000 for 7 nights accomodation? then you will tied to use just their hotel..

so for me its not worth giving your cash in advance and get a roughly 2.7k per night stay.