News Flash:  April 2010 - American tourist beats credit card company.  Finally one of the many people who email us for help got the courage to take our advice and stand up to the credit card companies who make a profit off of you getting screwed by these Mexican Timeshare resorts.  Mr. L filed a small claims lawsuit against BankAmericard based on the fact that he cancelled his contract with the 5 days allowed by Mexican law, and the resort's continued effort to charge his account amounted to fraud and BAC was doing nothing to stop the fraud.  Mr. L got a judgment of $4750 against BAC.  If you legally cancelled your contract and the resort continues to bill your credit card, that is FRAUD and if your credit card company does not act, they can be liable.  By US law you are only responsible for the first $50 of a fraudulent charge if you notify your credit card company of the fraud in a timely manner.  You need to start standing up for yourself and fight both the timeshare resorts and your credit card company if necessary.  Once we start making the credit card companies pay the bill, they are going to rethink their position of supporting these crocked timeshare resort.

Pressure on Government Officials

Along with a good website, you should also start an aggressive email campaign against your TS company.  The more people who start contacting their senators, congressmen, prime ministers (for our Canadian viewers), and all Mexican government officials, the sooner there will be an end to these TS companies and their sales presentations.  Check out our current email address list.  Feel free to email me if you have some worthwhile addresses to include in my list.

Whenever you write to a government official you need to absolutely copy our TS company on the email.  While you want to get the government officials motivated to put pressure on other government officials and eventually your TS company; there is also benefit in letting your TS company know that you are making this effort.  Whether a government official ever does anything, that fact that you are contacting them and making such an effort will worry your TS company.

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