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Re: Scammed by The Villa Group in Nuevo Vallarta: need to know if any recourse? (by KC):
manonb4 wrote:===========================================Ken - are you in any way aligned with the Villa Group? Just checking. Guess I'm learning more from this experience than anticipated!
I assume that you are only joking and, accordingly, I take no personal offense at your question. To be absolutely and unequivocally clear, however, I am NOT affiliated in ANY way with ANY timeshare entity ANYWHERE, nor have I EVER been at ANY time (other than owning and using a few fixed winter weeks of timeshare myself in SW Florida for about 25 years now).
Although I have been a long-time advocate for timeshare "consumers", I am not (nor have I ever been) employed in or otherwise associated in any way with the timeshare industry. In point of fact (not that it really matters here at all), my work was primarily as a prosecutor; I have never been in private practice. The few fixed winter weeks I own in Florida were purchased out of my own pocket, both pre and post-retirement, mostly in the resale market. I am, in short, beholden to NO ONE.
My input to "take the deal" was based upon the belief that you are apparently being voluntarily offered the best possible "fix" you would likely ever get even with Profeco involvement (assuming, of course, that Profeco even chose to "go to bat" for you at all). I have no agenda, I'm just offering my honest personal opinion and input. You are free to accept or ignore that input, which was provided only in response to your REQUEST for input. I was diplomatically (and perhaps too subtly) trying to convey to you my opinion that if you had any notions of receiving "compensatory damages" in a Mexican timeshare transaction gone awry, that you are likely just dreaming. Mexico isn't the U.S. and as Dorothy once said, "We're definitely not in Kansas anymore, Toto..." Again, however, just my personal view and opinion.