Monday, June 29, 2015
Friday, June 19, 2015
Beware of ‘Time Sharing’ Scams
A group
of individuals who claimed to represent an acclaimed real estate firm
in Manila have reportedly duped a couple into buying the company’s “time
sharing” plans.
The incident took place over the weekend when an unlisted caller informed the complainant of winning a travel “gift certificate” here and abroad. The couple reportedly won the “certificate” through a raffle after gassing up in the local gas station here.
The gift certificate entitles a couple to have a three nights and two day holiday tour of choice in any local or international destination. Among the places of choice include Bali, Indonesia, Las Vegas, and Orlando, Florida in the United States.
Obviously, the excitement of winning a gift certificate is overwhelming that one often forgets the sinister plot behind the scheme. One would only come to realize that something must have been wrong after falling into the trap. Unfortunately, this happened to a couple in Cagayan De Oro who shelled out their hard-earned money in exchange of the loathsome travel scam. The couple narrated that they were invited to a dinner in one of the city’s posh restaurants in Lapasan. The catch: The couple could not avail of the travel gift certificate unless they would attend the dinner. Aside from the dinner, the couple should also listen to a 90-minute product presentation.
Here is how it works. The representative would talk to the couple and the present the product with the use of a “laptop.” The product is called “time sharing” plan. Apparently, this scheme is new to most of the people around. This scheme is a financial idea where the buyer would entitle the family to travel anywhere of the listed destinations once a year.
Under the “time sharing scheme,” one has to pay a reservation fee in order to enjoy the program in the next 10 year period. Actually, the total package, costs as much as P 460,000. The buyer should pay, at least, 20 percent of the package or P 92,000 and pay a monthly due of about P 3,500. Remember: One has to travel with the family once a year!
The visual presentation, through the aid of the laptop, provides the couple a glimpse of the prospective places. Definitely, a presentation of the prospective places in Bali, Indonesia proves beautifully exhilarating. One might fall into a trance that nothing could be seen in the presentation, other than the eagerness to be at the places at any given time. The gift certificate lures the couple as the means to reach the tourist destinations like in Indonesia. But, wait. The couple should first pay a reservation of P 5,000 to P 8,800 to make sure that the couple gets the reservation.
Now, as the glimpse of excitement bury the couple in a blissful obsession, the representative starts to manipulate the subconscious mind – “you can go there with the gift certificate, but first pay the reservation.” The representative will not let the couple go. The 90 minute presentation would last until the time the couple would shell out the reservation fee. It is called “hard selling.” Perhaps, the representative would like to offset the expenses in coming to Cagayan De Oro and the cost of the “dinner.” Whether this proposition is a scam, I would like one to visit:http://theskychick.com/2013/10/20/club-astoria-and-other-time-share-properties-scam-or-legit/comment-page-1/#comment-3523.
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The incident took place over the weekend when an unlisted caller informed the complainant of winning a travel “gift certificate” here and abroad. The couple reportedly won the “certificate” through a raffle after gassing up in the local gas station here.
The gift certificate entitles a couple to have a three nights and two day holiday tour of choice in any local or international destination. Among the places of choice include Bali, Indonesia, Las Vegas, and Orlando, Florida in the United States.
Obviously, the excitement of winning a gift certificate is overwhelming that one often forgets the sinister plot behind the scheme. One would only come to realize that something must have been wrong after falling into the trap. Unfortunately, this happened to a couple in Cagayan De Oro who shelled out their hard-earned money in exchange of the loathsome travel scam. The couple narrated that they were invited to a dinner in one of the city’s posh restaurants in Lapasan. The catch: The couple could not avail of the travel gift certificate unless they would attend the dinner. Aside from the dinner, the couple should also listen to a 90-minute product presentation.
Here is how it works. The representative would talk to the couple and the present the product with the use of a “laptop.” The product is called “time sharing” plan. Apparently, this scheme is new to most of the people around. This scheme is a financial idea where the buyer would entitle the family to travel anywhere of the listed destinations once a year.
Under the “time sharing scheme,” one has to pay a reservation fee in order to enjoy the program in the next 10 year period. Actually, the total package, costs as much as P 460,000. The buyer should pay, at least, 20 percent of the package or P 92,000 and pay a monthly due of about P 3,500. Remember: One has to travel with the family once a year!
The visual presentation, through the aid of the laptop, provides the couple a glimpse of the prospective places. Definitely, a presentation of the prospective places in Bali, Indonesia proves beautifully exhilarating. One might fall into a trance that nothing could be seen in the presentation, other than the eagerness to be at the places at any given time. The gift certificate lures the couple as the means to reach the tourist destinations like in Indonesia. But, wait. The couple should first pay a reservation of P 5,000 to P 8,800 to make sure that the couple gets the reservation.
Now, as the glimpse of excitement bury the couple in a blissful obsession, the representative starts to manipulate the subconscious mind – “you can go there with the gift certificate, but first pay the reservation.” The representative will not let the couple go. The 90 minute presentation would last until the time the couple would shell out the reservation fee. It is called “hard selling.” Perhaps, the representative would like to offset the expenses in coming to Cagayan De Oro and the cost of the “dinner.” Whether this proposition is a scam, I would like one to visit:http://theskychick.com/2013/10/20/club-astoria-and-other-time-share-properties-scam-or-legit/comment-page-1/#comment-3523.
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The Philippines needs a new national political party
With a limping leadership, the presidential and local elections in 2016 could be the worse for the ruling Liberal Party (LP) in
the country. At the outset, every aspiring candidate and supporters
would scramble in the search for a new, credible, and dependable
political party in the national context.
The 2016 presidential elections would have been ripe for the Nacionalista Party (NP) to regain its status as one of the country’s reliable political organizations in the national and local level.
However,
with party mates without solid political loyalty, the Nacionalista
Party would be another candidate for the dustbin. Thanks to the formerSenator Manny Villar,
the NP president, who sold the soul of one of the country’s enduring
political party to the LP in the 2013 senatorial and local elections.
Today,
the NP persona has lost its value and has shattered the dreams of the
country’s “nationalist” virtue. What seemed to be the only alternative
to attain a political change and governance that the NP could possibly
carry out with effectiveness have become a whisper in the moon.
Undoubtedly,
the Filipino people need a political party that would otherwise
cultivate a new political value. There were various attempts in the
past, like the formation of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), an ambitious political party that would cater largely to the needs of the impoverished Filipinos.
However,
the political elite smells the filth of those living in squalid
communities that the only recourse then was to send the PMP’s figure
head to prison. As a result, the elite political party of the Lakas-Kampi sent President Erap Estrada to prison on trumped-up charges.
A
mixture of elite and the struggling political personalities also formed
what could have been a formidable national political party: The United Opposition (UNO). Organized in 2007, UNO was a coalition of the PMP headed by Pres. Erap Estrada and the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayanwith Vice President Jejomar Binay as the party President.
Although
the UNO did not last long, there is now an attempt to form a new
political opposition party: The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) headed
by VP Binay. The UNA is formed in preparation for the 2016 Presidential
and local elections where Binay is running for President.
The
reorganization of the UNO and the formation of the UNA is necessary to
weed out party mates whose alliance with the opposition is questionable.
There is no question that some incumbent elected officials – in the
Senate and in the locality – are “political opportunists.”
These
political leeches are no more than “political turncoats” who would
always jump, albeit with callousness into the wagon of winning political
parties. While the character is prevalent in the locality, the same is
true at the national level. Thus, perhaps, VP Binay should see to it
that the UNA would not be infiltrated by political tyrants who would
definitely sell the party’s principle.
One
should know that the UNA has a formidable support by various opposition
political parties at the local level. As far as one could remember,
there are more than 20 local opposition groups throughout the country
that are now fully supporting UNA. This is the reason that Binay’s popularity as a presidential candidate has not wavered in contrast to the popularity of other presidesidential bets.
We understand that more than half of the incumbent senators are now threatened that their re-election in the 2016 polls is
now hanging in the balance. These senators are certified turncoats, and
political opportunists who won their seats because of the support of
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