Victim Location 48631
Total money lost $5,000
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations
We were contacted saying the company we were working with have been released of their contract, and they would continue with the resales and rental of our timeshare. It was believed that this was a call from our home resort. All information matched, what we thought should, and monies requested, matched.
Until I mentioned that we didn’t have authority to release our timeshare, did a flag go off for us that this isn’t our resorts request. The person stammered a bit at that comment and said she would talk to "so and so" at our home resort.
We have lost $5K to an Timeshare resale and rental SCAM>>>> that we "should have known better" then to do… as they asked.
The company is called The Bendix Group. Said location to be; 201 E. Washington Street, Suite 1107-1112, Phoenix, AZ 85004, Phone # (602) 388-8754 Fax #(602) 926-1476. e-mail, [email protected] Web site: www.thebendixgroup.com
I did do a quick search when first contacted by the Bendix Group in September, 2015 and found nothing suspicious. The company they were supposedly replacing and honoring all previous transactions from VP Services. I had researched VP Services and found they had a long list of complaints and had actually been taken to court for timeshare scams, but our resort told us that this was past and they were on the up and up now.
Lessoned learned the hard way.
Now we have 3 timeshares to sell. CHEAP!