Pueblo Evita Resort in Benalmadena Costa

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OUR MEMBERS:

Please be advised that recently we have seen an increase in the number of members who have been contacted by someone claiming that they have a buyer for the member’s week(s) in the Club. These “cold calls” all have one thing in common; they claim to have a buyer NOW and that the member needs to send an amount, usually between 900 and 2,000 Euros for the legal paperwork to affect this sale.

Please be aware that any cold call offering anything similar is undoubtedly a scam. DO NOT FALL FOR THEIR PROMISES.

We have also been made aware that some of these callers are now professing to work for “Pueblo Evita Finance” and that their monies would be held secure by this company, which they claim, is attached to our Clubs. PLEASE NOTE THAT NEITHER PUEBLO EVITA CLUB NOR FAIRWAYS CLUB HAVE ANY DEALINGS WHATSOEVER WITH THIS COMPANY THAT CALL THEMSELVES PUEBLO EVITA FINANCE.

Suffice it to say, that if you receive a direct marketing call to your home or work, suggesting that they have a client that is waiting to buy your week in the club, then there is every chance that this is part of a scam. Please do not send any money to anyone calling you and saying that they have a buyer for your timeshare, nor should you send them your signed deeds UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. If and when you do want to sell your week(s) the owner always needs to sign the back of the Holiday Certificates, enter the details of the new owner and send to the general management office (Fuengirola address). Do not ever hand these deeds over to a third party to do this for you.

If you have been caught up in one of these so-called “offers”, we suggest that you get in touch with the Timeshare Consumer Association’s Helpline (TATOC) which have been VERY successful in getting UK members money back, when they have paid with their credit card, even if this was years ago. The TATOC number is: 0845 230 2430

Following the recent AGM, members approved a modification in the Constitution of the Club with respect to the usage of weeks in the Club. From 1 January, 2009, all apartments in the Club are now on a Floating time basis. This means that for all units (studios, 1-beds, 2- beds and 3-beds), both Standards and Elites, are now allocated to all members from the Main Management office in Malaga. Those members that in the past had fixed weeks will now need to contact the allocations department to request the week(s) they want to use at the Club or for banking purposes.

The R.D.O. (Resort Development Organisation) is a trade body that most successful timeshare operators in Europe belong to. They have a code of ethics for all their members, including any Timeshare Resale companies.

Their Code of Ethics states:

R.D.O. MEMBERS RESALE CODE

Resale R.D.O. Members should clearly disclose to seller and buyer, as appropriate, the relevant obligations and rights of all parties to the resale marketing, sales and conveyance transactions, including but not limited to the Resale Member and the seller and buyer of the timeshare interest.

Resale members must offer buyers of resale timeshare interests the same benefits of cooling-off period and protection of advance payments as are offered to other buyers of timeshare interests or as otherwise provided by the Law.
Resale Members may not directly nor through a third party make unsolicited contact, via telephone, fax or mail, with timeshare owners on what is, or may be construed to be, a cold call approach aimed at inducing such owners to permit the resale organisation to act as their selling agent.

Resale Members may not directly or indirectly solicit a fee from a vendor by falsely representing that there is a purchaser ready, willing and able to acquire the vendor's timeshare.

Resale Members are not permitted to take any form of mandatory upfront payments for the listing, marketing and sale of any timeshare interest.

For more information, please see the R.D.O. web site at: www.rdo.org