SUNCHASER VACATION (formerly FAIRMONT RESORT VILLAS)

I have been looking for any Topic on Sunchaser Vacation, formerly Fairmont Resort Villas in Fairmont, British Columbia, Canada. If anyone has info or Topic, I would appreciate it very much providing the information on Redweek.

I have a sunchaser and will not pay the fees this year. It is an expensive lesson, but I we have used it for 10-15 years - didn't save much overall with the loss it we are forced to let it go. I have not had a look at my contract since I am on a trip, but it looks suspicious to me. There are a couple of lawyers you can contact. I did and asked to keep my name on their list if there is a law suit against the corporation at Fairmont. Go to this website to get the names of the lawyers in Canada and check out other people's comments

The website did not show up on my previous submission. I'll try again.

Contact 1 Kellie Hamilton, Lawyer KellieHamiltonLaw.com Law Corporation Barrister & Solicitor Nelson Square 1700 - 808 Nelson Street Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 2H2 Tel: 604-685-7111 Fax: 604-685-7103 mailto:kh@kelliehamiltonlaw.com http://www.kelliehamiltonlaw.com

Contact 2 Geldert Law 930 Seymour Street, Suite 2704 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 1B4 Phone: +1 (778) 330.7775 Fax: +1 (778) 330.7774 info@geldertlaw.com

http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1418517

Maybe three times is a charm. Hope this website comes through. It is about the Fairmont Sunchaser Fee increase and ramifications.

Thank you for the info.

Hi bobk,

Thank you so much for the info. We may end up continuing with our units as it appears that the options placed on our lap are the only alternatives we have to contend with. Our laws and regulations are so loose in this timeshare business that we, the end users get penalized most of the time.

Mind you, us end users are also get to blamed because we all seem to be complacent with what is going on with the management and administration of our timeshares. We need to be proactive to protect our interest. - question is . . . who has the time and the willingness to get into unncessary stress. To top it, our authorities having jurisdiction on this type of a business do not appear to have the time to monitor the activities. Anyways, I'll send a message to those 2 lawyers you mentioned and find out if there are any actions.

Thanks again.

Good luck, today my wife called in and as we had paid our maintenance fee for the year, were able to deposit our weeks with II. I had thought we would have been required to pay the assessment as that is what it sounded like in the letter they mailed us. We have four weeks left to use and plan to use them soon.

. WE have decided to let Fairmont go as we don't feel the expense of the restoration fee is appropriate, and somewhere on another website, someone mentioned that this has happened before and the company took all the $ and then went "bankrupt" and everyone lost their money and their time share. I am not going to put any more money down the rabbit hole. We have learned an expensive lesson, have had the time share for about 15 years and with all the costs, original fees, maintenance fees, II dues and exchange fees, feel we basically paid retail dollar for what we did use. I could get my calculator out and crunch the numbers, but it may be too painful. There is a time in life to let go of things and this is one. We are both 66 and letting go feels right for us. They will ding our credit, but that is not an issue for us. I emailed the lawyers and got a reply " If we take on any more clients, we will contact you"

The time share business is a ponzi scheme of the slickest order. The salesmen are pros. WE almost lost more money last year. A year ago after being promised 400 Pesos for just going, we went to a timeshare presentation in Mazatlan, Mexico. They promised to buy our Fairmont timeshare, also, "because of our age" waive all maintenance fees in the future and a few other goodies. We were ecstatic, too good of a deal to pass up. The salesman reminded me of my son, so "sweet" and ingratiating, he had us exactly where he wanted. At the beginning of the presentation we said we were tired of Fairmont, and all the maintenance fees. They had a PROGRAM for US!!

I had to sign a statement that this decision was final, no backing out, credit card could not be cancelled and I HAD TO waive my 5 day grace period to back out. (Against the law) After signing that and putting $10,500 on my credit card. They said they would have an escrow agent in Seattle do the paper work and they'd buy our time share for $10,000. I thought it was a done deal. WRONG.

When we got home we Googled the time share and read that it was a TOTAL SCAM. ONe newly wed couple had paid $26,000 for their unit. We called Capitol One and they referred us to their Time Share Scam dept., REALLY, they have one. They said, "Oh, yea, we know the guy who sold you that, Miguel, does it all the time. Two weeks was the grace period to contest it with Cap One, the 5 day waiver we signed was meaningless to them. We had ONE day to submit our "we don't want it letter" to the time share company and to Capital One. WE sent them registered return receipt mail, and then had to complete a 5 page questionaire. That was sent in and then we had to wait for the timeshare to refute it. It is apparently easier to keep selling to new people than to refute. Anyway after 6 weeks of stress wondering what would happen, we got our credit card cleared of the $10,000/ Old adage : If it sounds too good to be true, it likely is. Buyer beware. May the time share gods be with you and you get all you want from staying with the program. Do the math, first and see if this is really a deal that will work for you. We live in USA and bought ours when the US dollar was greater value than the Canadian so I think we paid around $10K US for it, + - a few K.??? Cheers