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Grand Discovery Consultants - Grand Resort Travel - Grand Discovery RIP OFf Lies Deceipt Stay Away, Save your time and Energy. They Rip you OFF with lies Myrtle Beach South Carolina
I traveled to Grand Discovery in
North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.This
trip was made in response to a call received at our homeapproximately two weeks earlier.The call was made by a representative of
Grand Discovery and informed us of an opportunity to purchase discount
vacations.The caller also advertised that
we would receive various gifts in return for traveling to South Carolina and
meeting with the Grand Discovery representative.These gifts included two (2) free roundtrip
flights to any major airport in the continental United States, hotel
accommodations for three (3) days and two (2)nights at over 1,000 locations in the Marriott, Ramada or Radisson
Family of Hotels, and a three hundred dollar ($300) gift card to Wal-Mart.
In
consideration of these gifts, my husband and I traveled to South Carolina to
meet with the Grand Discovery representative.During our visit, we were informed that Grand Discovery offered a
Lifetime Membership in Grand Resort Travel.This Lifetime Membership enabled members to travel to various resorts
throughout the world at a discount of up to 65% off the published resort rental
rates.During the sales presentation, we
were shown a book of resorts and cruises which members could access throughout
the world at this discounted rate.We
were assured that these resorts were not limited and booking was guaranteed at
any location desired so long as three to four week notice was provided to the
company.Further, the Grand Discovery
representative assured us that Grand Discovery would price match offers made by
any other travel agency including discount providers such as Expedia or Carnival Cruises.
In order to provide credibility to
this sales opportunity, the Grand Discovery representative showed us copies of
various customer letters illustrating a high level of satisfaction with the
company.The first indication of a problem appeared in
reference to the Wal-Mart gift card.Instead
of giving us with a $300 gift card to Wal-Mart as promised, Grand Discovery
provided us with a brochure for $300 in retail merchandise rebates.The brochure advertised that a $25 gift card
would be provided each month the customer purchased $100 of merchandise from
Wal-Mart.This offer was available for a
total of twelve (12) months and required the customer to mail in their receipts
each month.The offer also required the
customer to mail in a check for $9.95 the first month.This $9.95 was to be refunded to the customer
on the gift card for the first months purchases.After making our purchases, we immediately
began trying to use our Wal-Mart gift card.As required, we provided proof of at least $100 worth of purchases through
receipts for the months of September, October and November.
When
the Wal-Mart rebates did not function as advertised, we contacted Grand
Discovery Travel to inquire into a possible problem.Multiple messages were l