407-557-2387
FL, US
| Red 2014-02-20 00:49:24 Telemarketer |
I just received this same call...I don't believe they are reputable at all... Can't find anything online about them!!! And by the way... When we signed up, it was pegged as a " Win a Disney Vacation" situation. Does Disney know your providing false advertising using their name? WARNING... Do Not Give Them ANY Money!!!!!!
| truth 2013-11-08 00:01:52 Unknown |
The only truly good thing to have come out of our phone exchange with (Kreepy Kim...thanks pk for the appropiate name for this incredibly dishonest woman)....is the 21 day cruise we decided to sign up for....good can come from bad and Kim is one bad chick.
| pk 2013-11-07 23:48:54 Unknown |
To such an honorable and established company...you might try hiring people who can at the very least correctly spell the lies they perpetrate........promtion...u idiot is correctly spelled....promotion...or in the case of your questionable practices....you can spell it....FRAUD. (I pity you Ms Karma Kim)
| pk 2013-11-07 23:29:41 Unknown |
Thanks all bloggers. I got THE call from Kreepy Kim...what a slimy character she was...guess some low lifes will do anything for a buck...but Kreepy Kim did not succeed in getting a penny from me. And....oh..and beware if you dare question this woman. She turns into a snake quick as a thief.
| drew 2013-04-18 19:18:31 Unknown |
Do u also consintly insist that the customer give u their bank info. To constantly repeat "just read the numbers from left to right on the bottome of your check" and when you raise concern that your not comfortabke you mock our conern with laughter and some flimpsy speech of how we entered the contest and this is a promotion we wanted. Then ask us for the numbers again. And again and again.
| fffff 2012-03-05 02:07:48 Unknown |
I was told I WON a trip to disney
| Shan 2012-03-05 02:07:00 Unknown |
I wasnt planning on calling back but we just received a call from Kim with RTA too with my husband info DEF. saying that we won a TRIP - not what RTA is stating above - my husband never fills out anything! I have no idea where they got his information but I know the owners of the place that held this fair (which was over 6 months ago) and I will make sure to let them know that they are getting our information somehow. Funnything too if my husband was to give out his information it would have NOT been on the line they called.
| Shannon 2011-12-17 02:20:42 Unknown |
I just got the call... at 9:00pm at night I might add... from Kim at RTA saying she got my name from a golf show I attended about eight months ago. While it may be a sneaky way of trying to get you to purchase a trip.... I still have the voice mail and I listened to it again and she is careful not to use the word "free" or "won". She simply said my name had been selected to to take the trip. I won't be calling back... I don't have the money to take any trips. Just remember people... very little in this world is free and if it sounds too good to be true... it probably is.
| Fraudulent Travel Clubs / Deceptive Vaca 2011-12-02 19:59:37 Prank Call |
Fraudulent Travel Clubs / Deceptive Vacation Packages / Holiday Timeshare Traps
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Lead Generation
Be aware that when you place your business card or name into a drawing for a free vacation, you may be added to a telemarketing call list. Telemarketers know that wishful thinkers are susceptible to their offers. Also know that your personal information, should you enter it, may be collected by unscrupulous operators via the Internet when you are visiting bogus travel-related sites seeking unbelievable deals on trips or airfare.
Fly By Night Operations
You get a notice that you have won a super travel bargain. All you have to do is make a deposit with your credit card and select your preferred travel dates. The trouble is you may never actually get your "bargain" trip because the travel proves to be a complete fabrication, your reservations may not be confirmed or because you must comply with so many hard-to-meet, hidden or expensive "conditions."
Fraudulent telemarketers purporting to be travel agencies can offer substantial travel packages at comparatively low cost because they know they will never have to come good on their promises. The use of travel as a commodity makes the long-distance nature of the transaction plausible but also makes getting a refund next to impossible.
Additional Costs and Upgrades
Several companies overstate the amenities included, hide extra charges in "all-inclusive" packages, or charge you for products and services you never received. Free vacations often become assertively pitched "discount" packages, where you have to pay an excessively high price for some uncovered part - like hotel or airfare, or inflated charges for a "required" second person. So, your airfare may be free, but your anticipated $50 hotel room costs you $350. Perhaps a "handling fee" or "membership fee", anywhere from $50 to hundreds of dollars, is required as well.
Some telemarketers say you've won ?or been specially selected ?for a trip then "bait and switch" you into spending additional money for "upgraded" hotel or other accommodations. You get a free or low-cost trip, but the room is cramped and grimy, the food terrible or nonexistent. The promoter then magically finds an upgrade at an outrageous price.
In addition, many offers require you to pay upgrade costs to receive the actual destinations, cruises, or dates you were promised. Some may require you to pay more for port charges, hotel taxes, or service fees but not bill your card until after you return.
They promise you a bargain-priced vacation. However, when you add up all the fees and extras, you wind up paying more for the "bargain" than for a conventional travel package. The total cost may run two to three times more than what you'd expect to pay, or what you were led to believe. They may also fail to inform you of their "no refund" policy or misrepresent it over the phone.
Timeshare Sales Trap
You take the bait and fly to Florida. When you try to pick up the vouchers for the rest of your trip, you find yourself trapped at a lengthy spiel on timeshares. You may also find out once you reach the final destination you are required to once again spend part of your vacation trapped listening to a lengthy and high pressure sales pitch for timeshare accommodations during your "vacation."
For more info on Timeshare Sales Presentations
Charter Flights
Every year at spring break many students, who signed up and paid for vacation packages, are disappointed when no plane is available for the return flight. When they examine the conditions of their contracts, they find, in small print, a clause that says the travel agency had the right to postpone the departure flight by as many as three days without any advance notice.
These students are left stranded in airports far from home, with no provisions for food or overnight lodging, just so the travel agency can save money, flying fewer of them during the off-peak days, once the break is over.
A lot of college students use use charters for spring break but these flights are not covered by the same laws as commercial airlines (usually charters can be canceled for any reason by the operator up until 10 days before the trip). Charter flights can also raise prices before the trip as well but you can cancel if they increase the package price by more than 10%.
Cruise Line Cancellations
Some travelers reserve a specific cruising date, sometimes a full year or year and a half in advance. Then, shortly before the cruise, they are told that that particular cruise has been rescheduled. They are told that they can go on another one, on certain dates, which may not fit their work schedule. Most contracts say that a cruise line can cancel at any time, for basically any reason.
Boat Ride to Hell
Telemarketers can initiate contact with you in several ways:
they may send direct mail to you stating you will receive a "fantasy cruise holiday" vacation including a "luxury" cruise, then direct you to call an 800 number; and
they also send unsolicited faxes to your business notifying "all staff" that the "wholesale travel department" has only a few Bahamas cruise packages remaining at a special corporate rate and that you should call immediately if you are interested in purchasing one;
they send electronic certificates to your e-mail address congratulating you on "winning" a fabulous vacation for a very attractive price. Some say you have been "specially selected" (only people with e-mail qualify) for this opportunity.
As mentioned, leads are also gathered at local fairs and trade shows by "lead generators." Booths are decorated with banners or signs inviting people to "register" for a vacation. You register thinking you are entering a draw to win a vacation.
Regardless of the method of contact, you are led to believe you are part of a select group of people specially chosen to receive this vacation package.
Once they have you on the line, they describe an exciting vacation in Florida and a "luxury cruise" to the Bahamas. They state that the vacation is worth a significant amount, sometimes as much as $2,500, but that you will pay a much smaller amount to receive it, typically $398, $498, or $598.
They urge you to immediately "secure" or "register" the vacation with a major credit card. They also say that the payment covers the cost of your accommodations in both Florida and the Bahamas, as well as the Bahamas "cruise." They inform you that you must purchase the vacation immediately.
If you request time to think over the offer, or receive it in writing, they respond with canned rebuttals such as "this is a limited promotion based on availability" or , "each confirmation number can only be activated once, so you cannot call back and reactivate your number" or "by the time you receive something in the mail, the limited number of vacations will be gone." In fact, there is no limit to the number of such vacations for sale.
So you give your credit card number to the convincing operator. Once that is obtained, they say you will be switched over to a "supervisor." In actuality, the call is transferred to the "verification" department at their headquarters, where a third person comes on to the line to confirm details of the sale.
Unlike the sales portion of the call, the "verification" is tape recorded. During the verification, they ask for your credit card number again, quickly review the details of the vacation package and, in some but not all instances, tell you for the first time that you will have to pay additional charges for "port service reservation processing fees" and that the vacation package is "non-refundable." These disclosures occur only after you have provided a credit card number which will be charged within minutes of your hanging up.
In the travel certificate industry, the amount you are initially charged during the sales call is known as the "front end" fee. This is because you do not receive a vacation for the money initially charged to your credit card, nor does that front end fee pay for your vacation.
In fact, most, if not all of the front end fee pays the owners and their telemarketers for their sales efforts. For your initial $398, $498, or $598, you receive nothing more than a package containing a short video, some advertisements and a "reservation request voucher" for the Bahamas cruise and the Florida vacation.
When you receive the vacation package you discover that you will have to pay more to take the vacation you thought you had already paid for. You find you have actually just paid for the "option" to purchase a vacation and also realize that you did not win a thing.
The required additional payment, or the "back end" fee, is at least $198 to $316. They state that the back end fee is for "port reservation processing fees." In fact, the back end fee pays for most, if not all, of your "cruise" to the Bahamas and your vacation accommodations.
Should you call and attempt to cancel your vacation it is flatly stated that they have a "no refund" policy and that you cannot cancel your initial purchase. If you read the fine print on the back of the reservation vouchers that are included in their vacation packages, you will discover that they actually do have a return policy within a specified number of days, depending on the state in which you live.
If you return the vacation package, even following the instructions on the back of the reservation voucher, you inevitably receive your package back, often several times, until you either give up or call a law enforcement agency, the Better Business Bureau, your credit card company or a private attorney.
People who seek third party assistance generally receive a refund. Those who do not are generally stuck paying for the misrepresented vacation package.
Should you be one of those relatively few people who decide to pay the extra "back end" fee to take the vacation you will find that the vacation is not the "fantasy cruise holiday" you were promised but a five to six hour ferry ride to the Bahamas and back.
The cruise ship you're booked on may look more like a tug boat. The hotel accommodations they provide are shabby, and if you wish to stay at the better-known hotels and resorts referred to in the solicitations and brochures, you must pay yet more undisclosed "upgrade" fees; otherwise you must endure the substandard accommodations provided.
| Remove It 2011-12-02 16:19:04 Unknown |
It's a telemarketing scam.
Do not provide any credit card information - you will be ripped off and receive nothing in return.
| ScamHammer 2011-12-02 15:44:40 Unknown |
It's a telemarketing fraud coming from a boiler room using robo-dialers.
No one signed up for this garbage, shill.
Report it to the Attorney General here -
http://myfloridalegal.com/Contact.nsf/Contact
Fraud Hotline 1-866-966-7226
| RTA PROMTIONS DEPT. 2011-12-02 04:13:01 Unknown |
I "wish" you could too but the fact is, you don't have it. Go listen to it again, the message clearly stated that "your name has been selected". "Selected" for the promtional offer "you" signed up for as was detailed on the back of the enty form "you" filled out.
Listen to it once again. If ANYONE here told you that you "won" anything or that you were going to recieve anything for "free" please provide that voice mail message and I can assure you that person will be fired on the spot. This is why we also provide a "voice recorded" receipt at the end of our calls.
There's nothing "sneaky" going on here. It's a GREAT VACATION at a GREAT DISCOUNTED price.
We haven't been in business for 9 years running a "scam".
| PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-12-02 03:58:07 Unknown |
Thanks Jesse. We actually did try you a number of times from our other office. Those would have come from the 727 area code. The call you get from the 407 number is the last call you'll receive, last chance as the promtion is ending.
| PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-12-02 03:53:39 Unknown |
Send that voice mail in. I GUARANTEE the words "won" and "free" aren't on it!
| PROMOTIONAL DEPT. 2011-12-02 03:42:49 Unknown |
You definitely were NOT told you "won" anything or anything was "free". Go listen to your voice mail again.
| RTA PROMTIONS DEPT. 2011-12-02 03:14:01 Unknown |
Why slander a perfectly reputable business which is both licensed and bonded in the state of Florida?
We do "promotions" all over the USA and Canada for a 7 day/6 night vacation to Florida. People sign up at some type of event (car show, fair, boat show, festival). The details of the promotion are clearly spelled out on the back of the form people fill out. It's not a contest or lottery. It's a "highly" discounted vacation offer which is exactly how it is presented to you.
The details of the promotion can be found here on our website:
http://rtavacations.com/package_details.html
Resort Tours & Accommodations, Inc. is licensed and bonded with the State of Florida and registered as a seller of travel ST36115.
| Florida Resident 2011-11-28 16:08:36 Unknown |
to RTA... I was told I won a free Disney Vacation and actually have the voicemail saved. You guys are crooks!
| Fraudmeister 2011-11-21 17:21:45 Unknown |
Definitely a fraud - report it to the Florida Attorney General -
http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/main/8140 ... 71!OpenDocument
| Janet 2011-11-21 15:32:55 Unknown |
It is a Scam I just got the same call.. AND KIM DID say I have been selected and I won a "FREE" Disney Vacation" ... I will not be calling back thank to this site. Maybe you should tell your Kim not to tell people they won a "FREE" vacation. Instead say they have won a discounted vacation, so you don't waste peoples time.
| Shellie 2011-10-12 18:36:36 Telemarketer |
Whoever is posting from RTA is full of crap. I JUST listened to a voicemail from Kim at RTA stating she (and I QUOTE) had good news for me and {Tim} that our name had been drawn for a free Disney vacation. YES, we know we "entered a drawing" at a recent festival but I won't be calling back after reading this. NOTHING is ever free - and certainly not a Disney vacation. A discounted travel package, sure - but that's NOT what the scripted message said on my voicemail. I wish I could upload the message as an mp3 so that the rep from RTA that trolls this site wouldn't be allowed to lie.
| Jesse 2011-10-10 03:34:26 Telemarketer |
I would have to agree with RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT with the fact that their message never said that I won anything. However, I would have to dispute a couple of things:
1) Their message indicated they had tried to reach me several times. Their phone number (and area code) has only appeared once in my caller ID. I never delete my history so I can safely say this is the first time they have called since the festival that I put my name in their little box. I did appreciate that they left me a message, though.
2) The booth that I signed up for the drawing did make it sound like I was entering a contest for a free vacation, not a discounted one. Maybe the issue is more at the initial sign up. Maybe it's not being made clear what we are signing up for.
Anyway, I will not be returning their phone call as I cannot afford a big vacation, even one as "discounted" as RTA is offering.
| Rina 2011-10-03 00:20:08 Telemarketer |
Got a call from Kim at RTA and told I "won" a trip to Disney World from a fair I went to back in April. She left a voicemail and YES she did say that she had drawn my name and I had "won" a vacation!! Kim, you may want to think before you leave messages and don't remember what you say on a voicemail. It will be turned in to the Fraud Hotline in Florida. Have a nice day, Kim!
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:59:52 Unknown |
That information YOU provided when you signed up. We were just verifying we had the right person as sometimes people's friends or children sign them up for things they don't know about.
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:57:49 Unknown |
You signed up for a discounted travel package and definitely were not told you "won" anything.
It's NOT a scam!
Resort Tours & Accommodations, Inc. is licensed and bonded with the State of Florida and registered as a seller of travel ST36115.
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:52:09 Unknown |
You signed up for a discounted travel package and definitely were not told you "won" anything.
It's NOT a scam!
Resort Tours & Accommodations, Inc. is licensed and bonded with the State of Florida and registered as a seller of travel ST36115.
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:49:37 Unknown |
You signed up for a discounted travel package and definitely were not told you "won" anything.
Your "research" is in-correct. Our office is in Winter Garden, Florida and the call definitely did NOT come from a cell phone. Had you taken the time to review your caller ID you would have seen the call originated from "RTA Vacations".
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:44:07 Unknown |
We had made numerous attempts to contact you but you never answered your phone. We ONLY leave messages when we can't contact you directly.
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:41:37 Unknown |
You signed up for a discounted travel package and definitely were not told you "won" anything.
We do provide e-mail confirmations and also send out your travel package in 5-7 days had you taken the time to listen.
| RTA PROMOTIONS DEPT. 2011-09-30 01:37:09 Unknown |
You signed up for a discounted travel package and definitely were not told you "won" anything.
| tim 2011-08-12 22:00:26 Unknown |
Haha, kind of funny. I got same call after going to a golf show. Kim gets around! Don't think ill waste my time with a call back...