9621, Report:
#1619
Posted Date:
Mar 20 2000
Payment for services not rendered
My girlfriend brought me to Cooperstown for my birthday this weekend (March 17-19). She made the reservation for us to stay at a Bed & Breakfast for Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th one month before the date. She garaunteed the first night's stay by providing her credit card ...
Entity
Robert Waite and Amy Dreher
Categories: Lodging
9622, Report:
#1415
Posted Date:
Mar 01 2000
Vacation Vandals
In August of 1999 we received a fax at our business from Resorts Exchange International / Players Exchange, with regard to Wonderful 8 Day/ 7 Night Vacations at resorts all over the world for a incredible price. So we called. The package included three one week vacations to be take...
Entity
Resorts Exchange Int./The Players Exchange
Categories: Travel Services
9623, Report:
#1356
Posted Date:
Feb 22 2000
Time Share Rip-Off
We went on one of those free tours of Los Abrigados in Sedona. At the end of the tour we did have an interest in an even year time share but told the sales rep we would not part with more than $100.00 a month since we were building a new house.
They said fine, what they could do...
Entity
ILX Resorts
Categories: Resorts
9624, Report:
#1304
Posted Date:
Feb 21 2000
Another Time Share Con
My wife and I purchased a time share with Orange Lakes of Kissimmee, Fl and stayed there for 3 days while on vacation. We were approached by Star Island Resorts to look at their resort and they told us they could give us a better deal. Star Island, Thomas Marchetta and Hank Fernande...
Entity
Star Island Resort
Categories: Builders & Contractors
9625, Report:
#1111
Posted Date:
Jan 21 2000
Motel Rip-Off - Topeka, KS
New Year's Eve charged $56 for a room with a bed that had been slept in, had burn holes through the sheets, the smoke detector was in the dresser drawer and had no batteries in it, the bathtub (originally white) hadn't been cleaned in years and had black scum all over in it, the car...
Entity
Country Inn Motel
Categories: Motels
9626, Report:
#1158
Posted Date:
Jan 21 2000
Time share. New name, same game
Buying a lifetime of vacation with endless escape sounds like a dream? It is in fact a nightmare.Reassured by smiling faces and sound explanations we bought into it, under the red color chart with the endless escape bonus. I had considered myself an intelligent person. I asked all t...
Entity
Silverleaf Resorts Inc.
Categories: Resorts
9627, Report:
#1148
Posted Date:
Jan 16 2000
Motel Knights Inn of Bloomington Illinois Refuses To Reimburse For Stolen Personal Property
The Knights Inn of Bloomington, Illinois, part of a chain of motels across the mid-west, refuses to reimburse or accept responsibility for a stolen computer from a guests room.
Under normal circumstances this could be questionable, however in this case, the cleaning service hir...
Entity
Knights Inn
Categories: Motels
9628, Report:
#350
Posted Date:
Dec 26 1999
South Carolina Police on I-95 ....Warning!
Warning! If your driving with out of state plates, or if your black or Hispanic and your on interstate 95 in South Carolina, be careful. They will pull you over. They'll trash your car, steel money if they find it and detain you as long as they can.
This happened to me and my fam...
Entity
South Carolina Police
Categories: Police
9629, Report:
#997
Posted Date:
Dec 13 1999
Commerce Chrysler Plymouth Dodge in Commerce GA rips off stranded traveler.
On Monday May 17, 1999 I suffered every traveler's worse nightmare when I broke down at Exit 50 of I-85 in Jefferson, GA. As my faithful Dodge conversion van slowly coasted to a halt (conveniently in front of a hotel), I was already digging my AAA card out of my wallet. I know e...
Entity
Commerce Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep, Inc.
Categories: Auto Dealers
9630, Report:
#893
Posted Date:
Dec 07 1999
Unfair Motel Telephone Charges
You check in to a motel and note that local phone calls are $.25, available by dialing 9 and the number. Upon checking out you find out that your 35 minute local call cost $10.35.
The Manager advises that there are only three prefixes in King City that are local and I'm lucky bec...
Entity
Keefer's Inn
Categories: Motels
