Original Message:
Mexican "transaction" of nearly 2 years ago... (by KC):
manonb4 states in relevant part: >> Ken: Thank you for your response. We were trying so hard to resolve this amicably. We have an "offer" from the Villa Group to take us back (financially and time ownership) to where we were before buying the time in October of 2006...<<
I'll express a theory based on the limited information you've presented. This corrective "offer", as you have described it, strongly suggests (to me, anyhow) that the 2006 transaction may very well have been the unauthorized and independent actions of rogue sales personnel, conducted without the authority (maybe even without the knowledge) of those above them. If so, the resort knows that if Profeco got involved on your behalf and "leaned" on them, the solution you describe as now being offered to you is, in fact, EXACTLY the course of action that would be recommended by Profeco to "make you whole". In my opinion, you could not realistically hope to do any better than this under any imaginable circumstances. My advice, again based on the incomplete facts and picture presented, would be to accept the corrective measure now being offered to you without a moment of hesitation and be grateful that it is even voluntarily offered and available at all. And, needless to say, in the future stay far away from any and all developer sales personnel and their assorted empty promises. As has so very often been said of developer sales personnel, particularly in Mexico, "If their lips are moving, they are probably lying". ==================================================
Re: >> ... as I remember things, there were at least 3 or 4 other couples who fell prey to this activity - at least based upon the contracts the saleperson showed us when he delivered our "contract." I don't think they have pursued it or, at least, the Villa Group is not forthcoming with that information.<<
The resort has no obligation whatsoever to reveal to you or discuss with you in any way the transactions of others. You have no legal standing (here or in Mexico) in any transaction outside of your own. Moreover, the other contracts shown to you could have been completely bogus creations --- trolling bait fabricated to draw you in and help to "seal the deal". What those other couples (whether real or imaginary) chose to do wouldn't change my previous advice to you --- i.e., take the corrective measure now being offered and be grateful that it's even available to you at all. You couldn't do any better, in my opinion, based on the limited information presented.