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Re: Has anyone purchased from Vallart Gardens? (by Patricia W.):

Hi,

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I were invited to attend a sales presentation at Vallarta Gardens, in the area of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. The Resort is beautiful, very quiet for our taste as they do not have activities for children, it is more a concept of privacy. Being in the sales presentation, we they presented us an annuity offered by a company called Cromwell and Berkeley in Panama, which would serve us in case of wanting to sell our membership and we would receive 100% of our money back. We thought it was an interesting idea and a very attractive benefit, but my husband and I decided to take some time to investigate a little more, so we decide not to buy that day. At the moment of telling the sales representative that we would wish to wait and do research, a person approached the table where we were sitting and demanded a purchase decision for that day, and as soon as we told him that we wanted to look into a little more about Vallarta Gardens and the benefits, this person behaved totally in an aggressive, threatening way saying that he was one of the owners and that he would kick us out of the Resort with elements of the local police. The sales representative who made us the presentation was always real friendly, but regrettably, this person who calls himself the director left us with a bad experience. Even then, we are still interested and we have tried to investigate a little more about Cromwell and Berkeley, since it seems an interesting product to be able to plan for the future for our kids, but unfortunately we have not achieved anything so far, we got hold of the Superintendency of Banks and Financial Institutions (SBIF) in Panama and they do not have any records about this company. I wonder if somebody has already done business with this company in Panama and would like to share info.