S & C Enterprises - Christine Travel - ebay ripoff, took payment of $3,000.00 for cruise package, never forwarded to the cruiseline Gary Indiana
I purchased a cruise from Christine Travel through ebay internet auction site on March 5, 2005. The trip was to be on the Caribbean Princess, leaving Ft. Lauderdale on June 11, 2005 for the Eastern Caribbean for a 7 day cruise, returning June 18.
On June 6, Christine emailed to say the cruise line had cancelled our trip in error. She rescheduled for the same ship and trip route to leave January 28, 2006.
On December 8, I logged onto the Princess Cruise trip site on the internet and found that my trip had been cancelled again. After no resonse to calls and emails to Christine, I called Princess Cruise Lines travel agent representative Brenda. According to her, the money I paid to Christine was never forwarded to Princess Cruises.
On the ebay site, Christine advertised as a travel agent licensed in the state of Indiana. I have discovered that Indiana does not license travel agents. A search of the Indiana state licensure bureau, planning commission and Gary city business registry has no record of either S & C Enterprises or of Christine Travel. I paid for the trip with a Postal money order. I also paid $500.00 for two round trip air fare tickets to Ft. Lauderdale which are non-refundable.
Christine misrepreseted the trip, charged $500.00 over the ebay listing, and has kept the money I paid for the cruise. She repeatedly stated that Princess Cruise line was responsible for the cancellations and reservation errors.
Eva
Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Eva
Hillsgrove,Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
ChristineTravel/S & C Enterprises/Luxury Travel ..Beware buying travel from this site: Luxury Travel or Luxurytravel05 on Ebay
#5Author of original report
Mon, December 26, 2005
After notification from the Indiana Attorney General's Office of my complaint and a letter from my attorney, Christine Travel changed her website, ebay store name, email address, mailing address and contact telephone numbers. The new information is:
Luxurytravel05 -- Ebay store
Luxurytravel05@comcast.net -- email address
phone numbers (616)510-8735 or cell (616)928-1032
her telephone numbers are now based in Michigan, had been Indiana prior to that.
Ebay has her listed as a Square Trade Seller. Ebay does not allow retraction of feedback after 90 days. The feedback for the new store is 100%, incuding mine. I am trying to get ebay to modify this.
Beware buying travel from this site: Luxury Travel or Luxurytravel05 on Ebay
Ed
VALLEY PARK,Missouri,
U.S.A.
FBI Internet Fraud Report
#5Consumer Suggestion
Thu, December 22, 2005
You can file a report with the Internet Fraud Division of the FBI. Just go to their web site.
Derek
Muncie,Indiana,
U.S.A.
Bidder beware
#5Consumer Comment
Mon, December 12, 2005
Any sane person that uses ebay should know that you buy at your own risk.
It sucks that people get burned on ebay all the time but, that's the breaks!
I would suggest you take this up with ebay and leave some negative feedback for this seller. That's about all you can do with this one.
Eva
Hillsgrove,Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
Crhistine Travel website
#5Author of original report
Sun, December 11, 2005
Crhistine Travel website is www.ChristineTravel.net