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Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Charles M.):

TMC timeshare owners need to provide the Attorney General's office with their own written complaints about their general inability to secure vacation time they request, how the value of their ownership was misrepresented in the sales presentation, and how they were assured that their annual maintenance dues would increase only marginally (I was actually advised that they would decrease over time as more of the timeshares were sold!).

Counselors Schneiderman & Farooq appear to be working hard to bring justice to these omnipotent criminals. Help them by writing a letter of your own experience and loss, both financially and to your family for your inability to secure vacation time. State any promises you recall being made during your sales presentation.

We just re-elected Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and should continue to do so until we receive justice. Below is the letter I sent. Unfortunately this blog does not maintain the format of cut & pasted text but you can reformat the letter yourselves for easier reading and to copy it if you would like to use it as a template:

Eric Schneiderman, Esq. New York Attorney General’s Office The Capitol Albany, New York 12224-0341

Re: Timeshare Owners vs. The Manhattan Club

Counselors Schneiderman and Farooq,

The purpose of this writing is to formalize my complaint and to contribute to the evidence pool on Plaintiff's behalf in the above referenced action.

My wife and I responded to a direct mail campaign of the defendant in 2001, met briefly with TMC Sales Executive Vicky Tree, and purchased one week of a one bedroom suite, Gold Flexible Interest. During the sales presentation we were assured that the maintenance fees had not and likely would not increase in the foreseeable future, and that they may even decrease over time. We were also verbally assured that these time shares were steadily increasing in value and could always be sold at a profit in the future, as prior owners were purportedly doing.

In the course of the 13 years we have owned this property we were able to secure our stay there only once. We have called or written to TMC to try to plan a family vacation every year since purchasing 13 years ago and, other than the one occasion, have consistently been denied availability.

During this time our maintenance fees were increased from the initial agreed upon $610 ... to $2,659 annually. That's $2,659 for a week hotel stay (that we cannot even obtain!) on top of another $24,493. that we originally paid for the privilege.

We have dutifully paid all of the fees and maintenance expenses as billed trusting that the State was about to intervene and disallow this continued fraud and the personal threats. We are willing to testify or sign an affidavit attesting to the untruths and misstatements made by the defendant in the course of presenting and selling this property, as well as to our inability to claim what we paid for over the course of our 13 years of ownership.

Sincerely, Charles & Robyn McGill

Timeshare Unit Number - 1715 Owner Number - 14049 Contract - One Week Gold Flex Interest Purchase Price - $24,493. Maintenance Fee - $610 ... now $2,659.33 Date of Purchase - 2/3/2001 Sales Executive - Vicky Tree Owners - Charles & Robyn McGill

Charles McGill XX Harborview Drive Northport, NY 11768

(cell) 516.902.XXXX