well, sadly the response received while detailed in nature and well written by someone who probably has a whole lot of better things to do than answer me personally...
it has resulted in "nothing really going to change here" as they feel that the statements clearly indicate the charge is voluntary and also indicate that if you wish to opt out, to simply pay the balance "less" the donation (which it does, in really small print, much smaller than the giant bold print they use to warn owners that failure to pay the balance will result in suspension of ownership and cancellation of reservations).
They also cited that vistana uses a completely different billing system compared to MVC, and making changes on a system wide scale there would be difficult at best. (more difficult if you dont actually want to make the changes in the first place).
My argument of course is that a fee that is applied that requires you to go thru an extra step to choose to NOT pay, does not fit the term voluntary by any way shape or form. However I am not sure my argument carries much weight in the grand scheme of things that likely result in millions of dollars being involved.
I suppose I will have to bark up another tree to gain the attention of someone with a more vested interest in what one might consider a misuse of political campaign contributions collections etc. we shall see who I can seek an appointment with.
I still believe this is just flat out wrong to call this a "voluntary" donation.
it has resulted in "nothing really going to change here" as they feel that the statements clearly indicate the charge is voluntary and also indicate that if you wish to opt out, to simply pay the balance "less" the donation (which it does, in really small print, much smaller than the giant bold print they use to warn owners that failure to pay the balance will result in suspension of ownership and cancellation of reservations).
They also cited that vistana uses a completely different billing system compared to MVC, and making changes on a system wide scale there would be difficult at best. (more difficult if you dont actually want to make the changes in the first place).
My argument of course is that a fee that is applied that requires you to go thru an extra step to choose to NOT pay, does not fit the term voluntary by any way shape or form. However I am not sure my argument carries much weight in the grand scheme of things that likely result in millions of dollars being involved.
I suppose I will have to bark up another tree to gain the attention of someone with a more vested interest in what one might consider a misuse of political campaign contributions collections etc. we shall see who I can seek an appointment with.
I still believe this is just flat out wrong to call this a "voluntary" donation.
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