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point rental liquidators (by Tina K.):
Bobb749, Thank you for the information you posted. My elderly parents fell for this scam in May 2012. Their "salesmen" were Hughes Dewailly and Pat Thompson. Do you have any information about these two guys? I do believe Sunset Harbor Resorts is in on the scam because they will not agree to cancel the contract my parents were tricked into signing. I also believe Bank of America is in on it too because they allow these two guys to open new credit card accounts for people, and they know it's a scam. I spoke on the telephone (815-970-0400) and emailed (bjcooke61341@yahoo.com) back and forth with BJ Cooke from PRL after he got on this bulletin board offering to help get Sunset Harbor Resorts to credit the money back to my parents' credit cards. He even friended me on FaceBook. He sure seemed sincere, but I had read too many bad reports about him to really think he could fix it. Yep, nothing happened. He did give me the name of a person to call at SHR (Malia), but she wouldn't agree to credit the accounts. I even got the fraud investigator from BOA to call her, but she said they don't process credits. One thing SHR did do real quick was send an invoice to my parents for the first year's maintenance fees. It's been 6 months, but my parents still haven't received the deed to the timeshare they supposedly purchased. We don't even know if the paperwork is legit. Unfortunately, BOA won't consider the charges on the credit cards to be fraudulent because my parents signed the paperwork, so BOA says my parents have to pay it back. If you go to PRL's website, you don't see any place to search through available condos for rent, all you see is how to turn over ones you own. So, they don't even TRY to rent out your stuff, so they would never be able to get you any money. I guess BJ knew I was on to the scam because he never even asked us to get a Guest Certificate from RCI for them to use to supposedly rent out the condo. Is that how it usually works? But, according to BOA, Sunset Harbor Resorts is the "vendor" so they got the $9500. Maybe PRL usually gets $495, but SHR is the real culprit, it appears to me. According to BJ, right after my parents' deal, Hughes Dewailly closed his company down. BJ claims PRL even got scammed by Hughes on my parents' deal and never even got his $495. Hughes had a company called HD Great Getaways, but he didn't use that company in my parents' scam, just his personal name (and implied he was affiliated with RCI). The 2 salesmen wrote up a contract for my parents to join the RCI Points Program. Last time I checked with RCI, they still had no record of it. The meeting my parents attended was in Hammond, Louisiana. Where were some of the other meetings? I wonder if there's a way we can all get together and bombard the NV Attorney General with complaints all at the same time and possibly get some action.