Outrigger Enterprises review: deceitful practices 56

To jim sanderson from an earlier message. if your company does not support these companies then I suggest your company create a customer service line to help people who are getting hosed by them instead of having every outrigger employee tell you that they can not help. these companies are ruining your reputation and honestly I dont think you really care.

I went to the presentation and joined in may of 2008 so far they have done everything the rep
Promised us but when we joined they made it clear the gifts where not from
Outrigger they where from a the marketing company that set are
Apointment lets go to gifts I did find them to be a hassle but I was bound and determined
To get them they did not comply with my first date and I called them and did raise a little
Stink and finally did get my date of travel and the grocery certificate was easy I picked
Walmart and with $100 of grocery reciepts they send me a $25 visa from walmart I just
Wanted to share my experience

Alex tate

I attended a plymouth presentation in april 09. after the highpressuring was completed, I did ask for financial credentials of company's assets including a certified copy of annual report. was told they are not a publically traded organization and do not have to disclose any thing. why would I buy into anything without knowing of its stability particularly in these tough economic times?

8/2/09 the $300 grocery bonus is bogus. turns outone must send in one - month's $100 selected grocery store receipts to earn $25. have turned in month of may and do date have not received anything.

The dining experience that I planned for the plymouth visit, turns out one must go online and select and print out coupon for desired restaurant. nothing in plymouth; restaurants listed are miles away and of a fast-food, one step above mcdonalds level.

Glad I didn't buy into an organization with experiences as listed above.

C magee

Hello!

I am so sorry to hear about your experience with outrigger vacation club. all of these outfits are distributors of outrigger's club. outrigger does no marketing or selling directly to the public and these issues are being investigated by outrigger, who will terminate any distributor it finds selling or marketing their product unethically.

Regards,
Jim sanderson
Jsanderson@outriggevacationclubonline.com
Outrigger vacation club

These people lied and said we'd get free vacation... well... we're still waiting! after wasting 90 mins of our time listening to this crap and opting not to give the $5-10k of our hard earned $.. we filled out for the nh trip plus the $1, 000 shopping spree.. and... nothing! sad thing is this company is not part of the bbb. so who do u complain to... this is far from over!

We just got suckered to waste a morning at myrtle beach listening to this crap, to top it off the guy at the official myrtle beach tourist center on rt 501 was pushing this great deal. we put 20.00 dollars up to go listen to their sales pitch. they were going to drop the price from 9, 000. to 5, 000 and needed our money in minutes, when we told them we do not spend that kind of money without researching what we are getting they got pissed because we were not buying into it. but, we got our 20.00 and 75.00 that we were promised for listening.

Back in pa.

We too did not have a sincere experience with this group. what a sales pitch! they came down from $10k to $1, 895. for a two year deal with no obligation after two years, however, if we liked it, we could apply our $1, 895. to their life time package. quite a bit of pressure and so happy my husband and I passed.

We did get out "scratch ticket" at the end and ended up with a "free vacation" but with limited details. not sure if I want to waste the postage to mail it in! my husband says we'll never hear back.

People, don't waste your time!

Unhappy couple in plymouth, ma.

Attended last night in phoenix...24th and camelback... trouble finding good time travel as there was no signage on the outside of this huge glass office tower (although all other tenants were prominentaly listed)... no signs on the 5th floor anywhere either... cheesy power point presentation... speaker was obviously bored, went through the motions due to the small size of the crowd-4 couples. became obvious they were buying unused time share weeks. gave several examples of rack rates at luxury locations and then their weekly rates. stated "no black out dates ever"! later stated they had an 86% success rate... just one of numerous contradictions throughout the presentation.

$10k price for membership revealed about 15 minutes in... this gave you one week per year... seriously... one "resort week" (as they called it) per year... helluva deal, huh!? then at the end, the big moment arrived "but for all of you tonight, our"vip's"... we've dropped it to... wait for it!... $9k (they did sweeten the pot increasing it to 4 resort weeks and access to"hot weeks"which are last minute specials).

One final incentive: speaker also had a"$1k travel voucher... only one, for the first person/couple to enroll". he very slowly pulled it out of an envelope for effect... apparently it was very fragile as he was very careful with it...

Before as well as following the presentation, I advised"wade"(our personal representative) that we would not be buying anything here tonight so if he wanted to move on to the next couple I could save him a lot of time. (he looked around the room and we were one of only 4 couples for the big 6pm show so my offer was declined...). after the presentation, wade returned to answer q's... I had four pages... which apparently caught him off guard... I again advised we would not be buying anything without doing reserach on his company. told him if after our research we felt this was something we would be interested in would call him back, ask for him personally to ensure he got got the commission. as expected, he didn't have a number to contact him at, and wade advised this was a one time offer only... had to invest $9k tonight or our only choice later would be the full $10k. said these prices were registered with the state of arizona"for our protection"and couldn't be modified. when we got up indicating we were in fact leaving w/o buying, he then advised there were"lower"package prices" that he could "tailor" to fit our needs. so much for registering their prices with the state for "our protection". we passed.

We have the free incentive package and have been advised to follow all directions on the back to get the free trip, air, hotel, (anywhere in the cont. us and at a marriott) as well as dinner coupons for olive garden and red lobster and $300 grocery voucher.

We'll see.

Based on what we've read here and on other postings, not holding my breath.

Ed

I know exactly what you mean! I had a feeling this was all going to be complete bull anyway but I went because of the "special birthday offer". on the phone I was told I get a $300 grocery card and a $150 gas card on top of two round trip airfare tickets and a 3day 2night stay anywhere in the continental u. s. all I had to do was attend a 90 min presentation and I was all set no obligation to sign up. I knew deep down it was to good to be true but decided to go anyway, my thought was what if I really am missing out on all this free stuff. well while reading the fine print, the 3day 2nightstay is only available at certain locations in the continental u. s. not anywhere and the $300 grocery card can only be used in $25 increments and thats per month by the way and the $150 gas card is also used in $25 increments and thats only while you are on vacation.

They also gave me the same offer of the $3995 from the $8995 and then I knew for sure it was definite complete bull, why would you drop the dollar amount that much in a matter of 2mins. you can't even get a car salesman to drop a price on a car that much in 2 weeks of trying nevermind 2mins! they kept pushing and my boyfriend and I kept saying no no no and then he started getting a little aggitated with us especially when I said i'm not signing up for anything until I do research considering I have never heard of your company before and you have been around for 28 years. his response was well we didn't do research on you before we got you here and I said well you are not throwing down almost $10, 000 on something you don't even know is legit! things just weren't adding up to me, when everything seems way to good to be true, it usually is! I have alot more to say about this bogus offer but I won't bore you with all the details, I think I have made it very clear that this is no good!

Appears this scam has headed westbound. today my wife and I made the biggest mistake of our life, hsving been lured into buying an outriggers vacation package. this was marketed by good times travel club in phoenix, a company you'll find nothing about. there were a lot of red flags that went up before we signed on the dotted line, like offices without signs for the agency, no business cards, and associates without name tags. we even paid $20 when we were first solicited at a home and garden show that supposedly would be returned when we arrived for the presentation. we never even got this back, but were instead offered gas and grocery coupons. notes i've seen on other internet posts indicate that these have little value and are difficult to cash in.

Unfortunately I could not adequately research this vacation club beforehand. everything we had received prior to the presentation said good time travel club, not outrigger vacation club. outrigger is actually in tulsa, ok and is not even a member of the bbb. very little actually on the web about them. have to admit there were some posts that were positive, but quite a few complaints. biggest neon sign though was the apparent use of many different names for what appears to be the same scam. check for posts on the phoenix vacation club and star vacation club. both have operated in the phoenix area and sales pitches, benefits, even the initial cost of the program $10, 000 and the eventual reduced price $3995 all are the same. I even found newspaper releases on the clubs (anyone with money can post an ad) that contained the exact wording. only the name of the vacation club was changed.

Our contract had a 72-hour cancellation clause. I have initiated a cancellation. time will tell whether we are able to get a credit back to our credit card.