Affordable Vacation International offered free "gift"s through Fun Time Travel. Completely a scam. I'm now realizing it and it is too late. I can't even find AVI's registration with California Secretary of State.
We were invited to a 90 minute sales pitch for a discounted travel service. We were to get a 3 day cruise which ended up being filled with red tape and hidden fees that were never mentioned during their pitch. We also paid $6043.00 to join their travel services with their promise that they would be offering 10 day trips to Tahiti, including airfare for $1800 a person, as well as the ability to book a condominium anywhere in the US for $999 a week or less. Shortly after paying for the service we tried to book the Tahiti trip and they told us that special had expired. We tried to book a condo at Tahoe and the cheapest quote they sent us was $1599 and was such a dive that I would not have paid anything to stay there.
The decent places they gave us to choose from were quoted at 3-5k per week. We tried to file a fraudulent charge case with my Chase credit card, but these guys are tricky and they word things right on the contract so that none of their verbal promises or presentation promises are written in the signed contract so my credit card company credited back my 6k at first...then 2 months later they received a copy of the paperwork from the travel service and replaced the $6k charge back to my account. This is definitely a fraudulent company and a huge rip-off of my hard-earned money. I hope there are enough complaints to merit a class-action suit to stop these guys from ripping other people off! They are criminals that are stealing from decent, hard-working people and it's just not right!
I received a phone call from a company that offered me 2 tickets for a free 3-7 day cruise, 2 airplane tickets, and a 2 night hotel stay in exchange for attending a 90 seminar about their travel services and directed me to their website at tourseminarinfo.com
3 different people talked to me on the phone to assure me this was a legit opportunity, and give me a confirmation number. I asked many times to see if i would truly receive the free offer mentioned, and received plenty of reassurance. I asked what the name of the company was that was doing the presentation, and i received a lot of evasive answers and they did not share that it was affordable vactions international.
I attended the seminar at the hilton on arden way in sacramento. After waiting for a while and filling out a form that asked us questions about ourselves and our travel habits, they showed us into a conference room where each table had each couples names. The presentation lasted just over an hour, and a slide shown on a large screen showed many beautiful resorts and the logos of reputable companies that affordable vacations international supposedly had a relationship with.
The offer was for $10,000 Discounted for "today only" for $8995) plus a $299 account activation fee and a $295 a year membership fee in exchange for getting super low travel rates because of their supposed relationships. My wife and i declined solidly and were showed the door.
Upon leaving they gave us these supposed "free gifts" that they had made such a big deal about to get us to attend the presentation, and the certificates we received are from "fun times travel" and require activation fees in order to use them. fun times travel certificates appear to also be a scam where they take people's money and do not offer even a discount on the service advertised.
The certificates are going in my trash.
I went to the affordable vactions international website Avi4fun.com) and they claim to be a+ rated with the better business bureau on their faq page, but on the bbb.Org website their company is not even accredited. Besides for calling themselves affordable vacations international they called themselves "travel center" and used the idea that their building is next to great america to give them some kind of validity as a big travel group.
If you research "affordable vacations international" on the internet, there is almost no information about them out there except for their very simple website, yet they claim in the presentation to have approx 200,000 members and make themselves sound like a solid company that has been around a long time. This is nonsense, i believe they are a fly by night operation that probably changes their name as soon as the heat is on.
I want to warn other consumers that i believe this company is a scam, and i think that affordable vacation international or the "travel center" are taking advantage of uninformed consumers.
Affordable Vacations International Reviews
Affordable Vacation International offered free "gift"s through Fun Time Travel. Completely a scam. I'm now realizing it and it is too late. I can't even find AVI's registration with California Secretary of State.
We were invited to a 90 minute sales pitch for a discounted travel service. We were to get a 3 day cruise which ended up being filled with red tape and hidden fees that were never mentioned during their pitch. We also paid $6043.00 to join their travel services with their promise that they would be offering 10 day trips to Tahiti, including airfare for $1800 a person, as well as the ability to book a condominium anywhere in the US for $999 a week or less. Shortly after paying for the service we tried to book the Tahiti trip and they told us that special had expired. We tried to book a condo at Tahoe and the cheapest quote they sent us was $1599 and was such a dive that I would not have paid anything to stay there.
The decent places they gave us to choose from were quoted at 3-5k per week. We tried to file a fraudulent charge case with my Chase credit card, but these guys are tricky and they word things right on the contract so that none of their verbal promises or presentation promises are written in the signed contract so my credit card company credited back my 6k at first...then 2 months later they received a copy of the paperwork from the travel service and replaced the $6k charge back to my account. This is definitely a fraudulent company and a huge rip-off of my hard-earned money. I hope there are enough complaints to merit a class-action suit to stop these guys from ripping other people off! They are criminals that are stealing from decent, hard-working people and it's just not right!
I received a phone call from a company that offered me 2 tickets for a free 3-7 day cruise, 2 airplane tickets, and a 2 night hotel stay in exchange for attending a 90 seminar about their travel services and directed me to their website at tourseminarinfo.com
3 different people talked to me on the phone to assure me this was a legit opportunity, and give me a confirmation number. I asked many times to see if i would truly receive the free offer mentioned, and received plenty of reassurance. I asked what the name of the company was that was doing the presentation, and i received a lot of evasive answers and they did not share that it was affordable vactions international.
I attended the seminar at the hilton on arden way in sacramento. After waiting for a while and filling out a form that asked us questions about ourselves and our travel habits, they showed us into a conference room where each table had each couples names. The presentation lasted just over an hour, and a slide shown on a large screen showed many beautiful resorts and the logos of reputable companies that affordable vacations international supposedly had a relationship with.
The offer was for $10,000 Discounted for "today only" for $8995) plus a $299 account activation fee and a $295 a year membership fee in exchange for getting super low travel rates because of their supposed relationships. My wife and i declined solidly and were showed the door.
Upon leaving they gave us these supposed "free gifts" that they had made such a big deal about to get us to attend the presentation, and the certificates we received are from "fun times travel" and require activation fees in order to use them. fun times travel certificates appear to also be a scam where they take people's money and do not offer even a discount on the service advertised.
The certificates are going in my trash.
I went to the affordable vactions international website Avi4fun.com) and they claim to be a+ rated with the better business bureau on their faq page, but on the bbb.Org website their company is not even accredited. Besides for calling themselves affordable vacations international they called themselves "travel center" and used the idea that their building is next to great america to give them some kind of validity as a big travel group.
If you research "affordable vacations international" on the internet, there is almost no information about them out there except for their very simple website, yet they claim in the presentation to have approx 200,000 members and make themselves sound like a solid company that has been around a long time. This is nonsense, i believe they are a fly by night operation that probably changes their name as soon as the heat is on.
I want to warn other consumers that i believe this company is a scam, and i think that affordable vacation international or the "travel center" are taking advantage of uninformed consumers.