One thing I should point out folks is that my story gets a little vague and confusing at times because I have spoken to folks at Pacific, Vacation, and the seller several times and it seems that I get different information with each new person I talk to. For example, I have call Vacation Village at least fifteen times over this issue trying to find out the status and then get sorted out the deed. I get a different person each time I call there and when I bring up something I was told on a previous call to them the new person says "Hmm, I'm not sure where you got that information because I'm not seeing that in your notes". It's all been very confusing to me so I apologize for the vague statements. The one comment I made about the deed being recorded in my name I am still trying to figure out if that is true. I was told this on one call to Vacation Village where the woman told me that the deed was recorded in both names but because they received the other parties first that is the name they awarded the timeshare to and understandably they don't want to get in the middle of this issue. Then when I spoke to another person there later on they said they didn't show anything in their information that a deed was ever put in my name. This is the reason for me not having solid facts in what I an saying here.
*** Edited to add that in my first post in this thread I made mention of the copy of the deed they sent to me. I only received what appears to be page 1 of 4. I will check with the Clerk of Courts on Osceola, Florida tomorrow to see what they think happened on their end. If in fact it was recorded in both names I want to know who's name was it recorded in first. If it is my name then they need to get this fixed with Vacation Village ASAP. If it was recorded in the other persons name first then I still expect Pacific (the seller) to rectify this and they can go after the guy that asked them to sell this property for them.***
Just want to say that I am willing to give Pacific the benefit of the doubt, even after all the delays, mistakes, and lies that I have had to deal with. If the original owner went and sold the property to another party and they recorded the deed first Pacific can't be blamed for that. I completely understand that. What I have a problem with is that I believe they knew this happened much sooner than I found out and kept delaying me as they tried to get it sorted out. Then when I caught on to what happened and told them I knew what had happened, they quit communicating with me. I used to get prompt responses to my emails and phone calls and that just stopped abruptly. I haven't heard from them in nearly a month now. If they were to give me another property of similar value that would be an awesome gesture of good will but at this point I don't expect that and to just get refunded I'd be thrilled. They could easily fix this but for some reason just decided to keep the money and wish me to go away.
I know that there are risks involved in buying resales on eBay. I saw the 99% approval rating by the seller and I know they move a lot of properties so I didn't even think this could happen. If I'd been scammed by some guy on Craigslist I would have chalked it up to my own stupidity but in this case I thought I could trust this group to at least be professional and I was wrong and paid for it.
Again, I apologize for the confusion in my comments but one certain fact in all this is that Pacific Property Transfer took my money, I received nothing in return for it, and now won't return it or even respond to my inquiries even after my threats to engage the BBB and CA Attorney Generals office, which I have done and they are investigating. If that fails I will file a criminal complaint and take them to small claims court.
