Timeshare Revealed - Help for Point to Point Destinations Owners
Operating under the name Point to Point Destinations, or West Coast Timeshare Ltd., this Vancouver, BC based company has been selling points based timeshares since their inception in 1999. In recent years there have been a number of time share owners speaking out against PTP Destinations, and looking for help in dealing with their PTP Destinations timeshare purchase. There is hope for the many PTP Destinations timeshare owners out there looking for assistance. There is an excellent web timeshare resource dedicated to informing, warning, and educating consumers about PTP timesharing called TimeshareRevealed.com. TimeshareRevealed.com is working to mobilize, help, and inform unhappy PTP Destinations timeshare owners, and assist them in taking action against the company.
Vlad, the creator of TimeshareRevealed.com, has already begun to take legal action against Point to Point Destinations, and is currently in the process of suing their organization for misrepresentation. This action was pursued after PTP Destinations/West Coast Timeshare’s refusal to return his money, or make an offer to buy back the package that was sold to him under false pretenses. His objective now is to assist other PTP Timeshare owners in pursuing the same action by providing recommendations for legal representation, assisting owners to find one another and mobilize to file single, joint, or class action suits, obtaining the assistance of more PTP owners to strengthen the cases already in progress, and creating a public awareness of Point to Point Destination’s unfair business practices to protect consumers.
TimeshareRevealed.com wants all PTP vacation club members to know that there are options available for them to get out of their timeshare contract with Point To Point Destinations, also know as West Coast Timeshare Ltd., and the site outlines a number of ways to go about getting your money back. For people within their 10 day timeshare rescission window, you have the ability to cancel the contract, without any explanation, and receive a full refund during this period known as “cooling off”. Point to Point timeshare owners outside of this 7 day refund window also have options including:
- Filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
- Suing West Coast Timeshare (this is possible despite what your timeshare contract may state).
- Raising awareness on the web regarding the company’s questionable business practices on sites like Rip Off Report, Consumer Affairs, Complaints.com
- Organizing a class action lawsuit.
- Spreading the word on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, forums, and via email.
So if you, or someone you know, has been involved with Point to Point Destinations and is unhappy with their experience, TimeshareRevealed.com is a great resource for timeshare help, time share lawsuit information, and connecting with other PTP Destinations timeshare owners that share your experience. It is important to realize that you are not alone, and there is help available for timeshare owners that feel they have been mislead by PTP/West Coast Timeshare.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Hi Vlad,
I found on BC consumers and protection act BILL 36 — 1995 article 13.01 (buyer’s right to cance time share contract )
under section (4) states that a copy of time share contract must be provided to the buyer to cancel the contract.
(a) a notice, in prescribeb form, in bold and in at least 12 point type, of the buyer’s right to cancel the time share contract within 7 days of receiving a copy of the contract.
This was not included in the package given to me. I could not find it anywhere in the contract that i took home with me that day. do I have a case here just in case they don’t refund my money and force me to pay for the value timeshare i purchased? In case I would need a lawyer, can you recommend one for me. Honestly, I would rather see my deposit paid to lawyer than lose it to point to point destination. pls. help i cannot sleep.
ignacio manankil
August 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hello Ignacio,
Please contact me privately from my web site. I shall not give you any legal advice, especially on the public blog. Although I’ll be happy to discuss with you what my lawyer explained to me. Things are not so straight forward, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Let us talk in private about your experience and other facts.
Vlad.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I attended a PTP Destinations presentation on Oct. 25, 2008. I did not buy, but like to share with all of you the information:
I was first offered 75000 pts for CDN$41250. I didn’t show interests,
then I was offered 25000 pts for CDN$12500 with maintenance fee of
CDN$318 and tried to convince me to go for 35000 pts for CDN$17500 with maintenance fee of CDN$446. the deal can be cash, or 10% down and financing the
rest at 14.59% interest rate. They could double the points for the
first year as a sign-in bonus.
I was told .. with 25000 pts, I could go for almost 3 week vacation
(9000 pts per week) if I could book within 45 days of the travel. Besides that, not much detials regarding what could that 25000 pts get me. but I later found out that this is of very limited usage (forget about those fancy resorts) I encourage all of you who are interested in buying RCI points take a look at this link, then you will know what you may get with your points:
http://www.rci.com/GPN/CDA/Common/pdf/RCI_ExGridsUpdate1.pdf
I also found out, at least in this case, that the presenter (the one spend most time with me) get paid no matter what. The Sales person only appeared at the end to present the “numbers” and tried to close a deal. He spent only 5 to 10 minutes with me. So don’t feel bad about not buying. At the end, I got my gift as promised. The whole thing lasted only 10 minutes more than the promised 90 minutes. Not bad at all.
My conclusion is .. if you are interested in buying timeshare, do your homework and know what you’re buying exactly. NEVER expect that the sales person would tell you ALL details.
One more thing, the gift is kind of ‘too good to be true’ - a trip to Las Vegas for 2, air and 2 nights hotel included. I do suspect there would be some hidden cost besides the taxes which we have to pay as we were told up front. I am prepared to give up if it cost too much. The gift certificate is from Odenza. I am sure some people out there must have tried this, please share with us your experience if possible.