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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Joseph L.):

I have been following all the posts on this site and really appreciate everyone's comments and opinions, and thanks to Red Week for establishing and maintaining this blog.

We purchased a penthouse unit from the original purchaser in 2007 but we were never made aware of these issues. What caught my attention was that when trying to book a stay we often were told that if we paid the fees well in advance we probably could get what we wanted. This didn't make sense but foolishly we bought a second week a couple of years later. Since then it has been almost impossible to get any of the times we requested.

I was always confused about two things; why there was always units available for rent and why the fees went up so much. One year I called to see if they would rent my week as there were no times available that was suitable for us and they told me the do not rent units for owners. So I was really confused as the normal process in the other timeshares we owned was they would rent on behalf of owners who couldn't use their allotted time.

Now from reading all the posts here I see that this has been a scam all along.

We are Canadians and felt that any action being taken was primarily for residents of the State of New York. Unfortunately we didn't maintain a log of our requests over the years as we often took whatever was available, until last year . We would like our voice to be heard and included with all the other victims of this scam.

My question therefore is what can we do to add weight to this investigation without having any real documentation or paper back up to show that we like most others were taken advantage of.

And we recently were called to see if we wanted to update our credit card for the automatic billing and I said no. Send me an invoice as I have concerns with what is going on. The lady called said in a cheery voice, no problem. No reductions or one time deal as mentioned before was offered.

Sorry for the long winded post!