11/29/2008
On the case: timeshare scams and credit card charges (Daily Telegraph)
Our resident expert solves your travel conundrums. This week: timeshare scams skiing with grandchildren the cost of flight changes and minimising credit card charges.
MORE INFO
|
11/28/2008
New layoffs loom for timeshare firm Bluegreen (Miami Herald)
Timeshare firm Bluegreen (BXG) will lay off another 182 workers in January in Orlando, the Boca Raton-based firm told the state. Bluegreen earlier this week said it would reduce its staff by 122. The company has said it would reduce its sales operations, which have been affected by the credit crunch, while maintaining its resort management business.
MORE INFO
|
11/30/2008
Timeshare 'sales scam' (Independent Online)
He thought he got conned, and wrote a blog post about it. Now the writer of Insights and Rants is being sued.
MORE INFO
|
12/01/2008
Week in review (BizJournals)
PALM BEACH Bluegreen plans layoffs Bluegreen Corp. plans to lay off 122 office staff at its headquarters, beginning on Jan. 20, according to a notice the timeshare resort company filed with the state Friday. (BXG)
MORE INFO
|
11/30/2008
Timeshare 'sales scam' (Pretoria News)
A blogger is being sued for defamation by the RCI-affiliated Quality Vacation Club (QVC) for criticising it on his website Insights and Rants. Donn Edwards was phoned by a telemarketer last year and told that he had won a car.
MORE INFO
|
12/01/2008
Timeshares123.com Is Hiring and Extends Free Listing Period (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Timeshares123.com, LLC (www.timeshares123.com), a timeshare rentals and sales classified website and advertising agency for people selling or renting timeshares, today announced that it has extended the free listing introductory period and is hiring sales professionals.
MORE INFO
|
11/28/2008
Credit market leads to 128 layoffs by timeshare company (Wisconsin Dells Events)
The vice president of a company eliminating 128 Dells and Sauk County area jobs says the country's credit market crisis led to the layoffs."Like most households and most companies in this country, we relied on financing to run our business," said Michael Kaminer, vice president and assistant general counsel for Bluegreen Corporation, a Florida-based vacation home company. "It was prudent we make ...
MORE INFO
|
11/26/2008
Jet timeshare company lays off 134 (Port Clinton News Herald)
CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland-area company that operates a timeshare-style jet operation has laid off 104 pilots and 30 other employees.
MORE INFO
|
11/26/2008
Jet timeshare company lays off 134 (FOX 19 Cincinnati)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A Cleveland-area company that operates a timeshare-style jet operation has laid off 104 pilots and 30 other employees. Flight Options says the layoffs at the fractional jet ownership company reflect a drop in travel by what it calls the "working wealthy" and affluent vacationers.
MORE INFO
|
12/01/2008
Farmers reap stability from wind (AG Weekly)
WASCO, Ore. - Hilderbrand Lane slices through acres of wheat fields as it heads east out of Wasco, a tiny town burrowed into Oregon’s poorest county. Stubble from summer’s harvest bristles in every direction.
MORE INFO
|