Class Action Against Diamond Resorts?

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Re: Class Action Against Diamond Resorts? (by Wei D.):

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I too are victims of Diamond Resort's deceptive sales tactics just at the beginning of this year. Many "perks" and "bonuses" that were promised to us turned out to be different from how they represented it at the sales presentation.

1. As an incentive "bonus" to make the purchase of their "starter package", we were offered 6 separate "Dream Vacation Weeks" which are vouchers that we were able to redeem for a free week of vacation anywhere affiliated with the DRI network. We later found that these "Dream Week" vouchers are actually NOT free and we have to actually pay hundreds in redemption fee to use them. Not to mention the sales rep also did not accurately explain the terms & conditions of these vouchers.

2. As part of the DRI benefit we were told we will also have membership with Interval International. We were told about "cash deals" on Interval International which often offer significant discounts even if you book just with cash rather than points. We were then shown a bunch of nice resorts in Mexico which had like super deals like $20+/day for seven days. We said, in front of the sales rep, "wow just these deals make this worthwhile." After arriving home and excited to look for our next trip we found that the price we were shown are of "all-inclusive resorts" which in the next page of booking, required an "ALL INCLUSIVE FEE" that were ridiculously expensive like $250/person/day. I contacted DRI and they just said "these fees were third-party and they had no control over them". If this is not bait-and-switch I don't know what is.

A few years ago, a friend of mine also became a victim of a Timeshare company in Los Angeles. What he did was he filed a class action lawsuit and found 80+ plaintiffs across the world who experienced the same thing. He WON the lawsuit and that Timeshare company refunded their purchase and compensated them all with a free trip to Hawaii.

We are looking to initiate a class action lawsuit in hopes of finding other victims who is willing to share their experience and would like to join us in this pursuit.

Feel free to join our Facebook Group called Diamond Resorts Timeshare Class Action (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2062156860753839/)