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The address they are using now is: 1 S. Orange Ave, Suite 4B, Orlando, FL 32801. www.GrandVacationsClub.com

Same experience as everyone else. Unfortunately, I signed up; however, cancelled within the hour and notified my credit card company of fraud. They called me regarding my email cancellation and tried to convince me over a 13-minute call that (1) they already had a buyer for my weeks and (2) they are legit and it is another fraudulent company who may be imitating them. They want you to believe they have a buyer, so you exceed your 10-day right to cancel. This is an 'advertising' company that charges 180-day advertisements of your time share for a fee - they do not guarantee actual sales.
We are well aware here at Grand Vacations Club located at 1 S. Orange Ave, Suite 4B Orlando, FL 32801 of the fraudulent misrepresentation of the company below. There is an ongoing investigation into the matter. They are not a registered business in the state of Florida. We would like to say we are not affiliated in any way with this company or Hilton Grand Vacations Club. PLEASE be careful of them!

Grand Vacations Club travelgrandvacations dot com
10 Fairway Drive
Deerfield Beach, FL, 33441
Customer Service (888) 317-1059
 
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We are well aware here at Grand Vacations Club located at 1 S. Orange Ave, Suite 4B Orlando, FL 32801 of the fraudulent misrepresentation of the company below. There is an ongoing investigation into the matter. They are not a registered business in the state of Florida. We would like to say we are not affiliated in any way with this company or Hilton Grand Vacations Club. PLEASE be careful of them!

Grand Vacations Club travelgrandvacations dot com
10 Fairway Drive
Deerfield Beach, FL, 33441
Customer Service (888) 317-1059
I’m having trouble following, what company do you represent?
 
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I’m having trouble following, what company do you represent?
Grand Vacations Club
1 S. Orange Ave, Suite 4B
Orlando, FL 32801

The company below is a fraudulent company pretending to be us.

Grand Vacations Club travelgrandvacations dot com
10 Fairway Drive
Deerfield Beach, FL, 33441
Customer Service (888) 317-1059
 
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What is Grand Vacations Club?
Grand Vacations Club
1 S. Orange Ave, Suite 4B
Orlando, FL 32801

The company below is a fraudulent company pretending to be us.

Grand Vacations Club travelgrandvacations dot com
10 Fairway Drive
Deerfield Beach, FL, 33441
Customer Service (888) 317-1059
Is this your website or is this the website of the company pretending to be you?
 

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What is Grand Vacations Club?

Is this your website or is this the website of the company pretending to be you?
grandvacationsclub com
I am representing /grandvacationsclub com but the fraudulent company pretending to be us is travelgrandvacations com

If anyone has done business with travelgrandvacations please contact us at 1-866-410-0604 (Customer Service) to report them and we can add your information to the investigation we have against them.

Thank you!
 
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I’m having trouble following, what company do you represent?
Classic. Another nearly identical upfront listing fee company getting upset that the first one is impersonating them.

"We offer an extensive database to help corporations find your vacation property. Our fully dedicated Support Department will work tirelessly to help you find the perfect traveler for your Vacation Property. "

Upfront listing shill. Go away.
 

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Let’s talk about Grand Vacations Club, Inc.

Grand Vacations Club’s website states “We use a multitude of methods and technology to get the property the exposure it needs to find the renter who needs it.” However, the website doesn’t even come up on a Google search with their name and city (I went through multiple pages). What does come up is their F rating with the BBB. All we have here is a poorly designed website that no one can find. Seriously though, what company will create a name so similar to a multi-billion company that their website never even comes up in a google search? In my opinion, that would be a company who really has no need to be found because there are no actual business activities happening other than cold calls for dollars. Another clue that they don't really want to be found is the fact that their terms and conditions is incomplete. They have lots of headings, such as "How do I cancel?" but there is absolutely nothing beyond the headings. The whole website is nothing but eye candy to try and convince timeshare owners that they are a legit marketing company.

Their website also states ““We offer an extensive database to help corporations find your vacation property.” Never in the history of timesharing has there ever been a legit marketing company that cold calls and claims to market timeshares to corporations. The simple fact is that corporations require ease of booking, multiple reservations for groups and the ability to cancel or modify their reservations. Timeshare reservations are unpredictable, are difficult to book even for one reservation let alone multiple and are typically non-cancelable. I have 30+ years of experience working for a large corporation. I had many seminars and trips that I either organized or participated in. Our company limited on where we could book accommodations to a specific company that had a special arrangement with the company. The claim to market to corporations is one of two of the biggest lies in the already shady timeshare marketing industry (the other lie is claiming to rent excess Getaway weeks). Any upfront fee company that claims they market to corporations is a scam.

While they want their victims to think the company has a great booking engine for potential renters the site is actually a joke. It is not a booking engine. It appears that they loaded a bunch of generic timeshare descriptions into the website. Every single resort listed has a rental price of $1400. This includes the lowest of timeshares to prime Hawaii locations such as Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas in Maui - see post #33. It shows that there has been zero thought about the resorts and that they simply put together the website as quickly as possible. There is also no way to search by resort name or geographical location. If someone scrolling through the random list of resorts happens to find a resort they might like, they have to enter their personal info just to inquire about the resort. In this day and age, no one "shopping" for a resort will take the time to do this, let alone the risk they take entering personal information into a new website that operates in one of the most scam ridden industries in the US.

Based on the above, it appears that this is just one of hundreds of other scam marketing companies out there whose only real business model is dialing for upfront fees. There is zero incentive to find renters once they have the upfront fee. I've said it before and will say it again, I believe that most of these scam marketing companies have no real marketing business model as it is all a sham to assist them in collecting/stealing upfront fees. I also believe that they generate fake and impossible to reserve offers to make the timeshare owners think there is real action happening.
 
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Let’s talk about Grand Vacations Club.

Grand Vacations Club’s website states “We use a multitude of methods and technology to get the property the exposure it needs to find the renter who needs it.” However, the website doesn’t even come up on a Google search with their name and city (I went through multiple pages). What does come up is their F rating with the BBB. All we have here is a poorly designed website that no one can find.

Their website also states ““We offer an extensive database to help corporations find your vacation property.” Never in the history of timesharing has there ever been a legit marketing company finding corporate renters for timeshares. This is the biggest scam in the already shady timeshare marketing industry.

While they want their victims to think the company has a great booking engine for potential renters the site is actually a joke. It appears that they loaded a bunch of generic timeshare descriptions and every single rental price is $1400. There is no way to search by resort name or geographical location.

Based on the above, it appears that this is just one of hundreds of scam marketing companies out there whose only real business model is dialing for upfront fees. There is zero incentive to find renters. I also believe that many of these scam marketing companies generate fake offers to make people think there is real action happening.
But they have "an investigation" open. :ROFLMAO: I am sure they will be back to extoll the virtues of their incredible successes in matching corporate reservation specialists with your timeshare week to rent at $1,400 a pop. The funny part is $1,400 isn't even a decent amount for most weeks. Utter 🤡 show.
 

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But they have "an investigation" open. :ROFLMAO: I am sure they will be back to extoll the virtues of their incredible successes in matching corporate reservation specialists with your timeshare week to rent at $1,400 a pop. The funny part is $1,400 isn't even a decent amount for most weeks. Utter 🤡 show.
A two bedroom Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas can be had for only $1400 / week! If it wasn’t a scam I would sign up for four of them. They likely wouldn’t take my request though because I am not a corporation.
 

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Let’s talk about Grand Vacations Club, Inc.

Grand Vacations Club’s website states “We use a multitude of methods and technology to get the property the exposure it needs to find the renter who needs it.” However, the website doesn’t even come up on a Google search with their name and city (I went through multiple pages). What does come up is their F rating with the BBB. All we have here is a poorly designed website that no one can find. Seriously though, what company will create a name so similar to a multi-billion company that their website never even comes up in a google search? In my opinion, that would be a company who really has no need to be found because there are no actual business activities happening other than cold calls for dollars. Another clue that they don't really want to be found is the fact that their terms and conditions is incomplete. They have lots of headings, such as "How do I cancel?" but there is absolutely nothing beyond the headings. The whole website is nothing but eye candy to try and convince timeshare owners that they are a legit marketing company.

Their website also states ““We offer an extensive database to help corporations find your vacation property.” Never in the history of timesharing has there ever been a legit marketing company that cold calls and claims to market timeshares to corporations. The simple fact is that corporations require ease of booking, multiple reservations for groups and the ability to cancel or modify their reservations. Timeshare reservations are unpredictable, are difficult to book even for one reservation let alone multiple and are typically non-cancelable. I have 30+ years of experience working for a large corporation. I had many seminars and trips that I either organized or participated in. Our company limited on where we could book accommodations to a specific company that had a special arrangement with the company. The claim to market to corporations is one of two of the biggest lies in the already shady timeshare marketing industry (the other lie is claiming to rent excess Getaway weeks). Any upfront fee company that claims they market to corporations is a scam.

While they want their victims to think the company has a great booking engine for potential renters the site is actually a joke. It is not a booking engine. It appears that they loaded a bunch of generic timeshare descriptions into the website. Every single resort listed has a rental price of $1400. This includes the lowest of timeshares to prime Hawaii locations such as Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas in Maui - see post #33. It shows that there has been zero thought about the resorts and that they simply put together the website as quickly as possible. There is also no way to search by resort name or geographical location. If someone scrolling through the random list of resorts happens to find a resort they might like, they have to enter their personal info just to inquire about the resort. In this day and age, no one "shopping" for a resort will take the time to do this, let alone the risk they take entering personal information into a new website that operates in one of the most scam ridden industries in the US.

Based on the above, it appears that this is just one of hundreds of other scam marketing companies out there whose only real business model is dialing for upfront fees. There is zero incentive to find renters once they have the upfront fee. I've said it before and will say it again, I believe that most of these scam marketing companies have no real marketing business model as it is all a sham to assist them in collecting/stealing upfront fees. I also believe that they generate fake and impossible to reserve offers to make the timeshare owners think there is real action happening.
Yeah, this is why I was so confused about who the "scammer" was in this. I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt because I guess even websites like Redweek & Go-Koala had to start somewhere, but man there's a lot of red flags here. Maybe @GVCSupport will respond and explain a little more about what their business model is.
 
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