I think we may have been scammed by Phoenix Vacations through Going Places Travel last week in Wisconsin. I called the Better Business Bureau after reading lots of negative posts on the Internet. The presenters told us they were members of the Better Business Burea, which is correct but they have lots of issues against them. Does anyone have any idea how to get your money back or stop these scammers? I'm told in the business world there is a formula of how many times one has to hear a "no" before someone purchases. If this is a scam it sounds like they are already being successful. I applaud everyone as consumers for posting; unfortunately, we had no idea who the company was so we couldn't check them out as we were notified through a marketing firm. What are our legal rights?

We too were scammed by Going Places Travel. Phoenix Vacations, Inc. of Jeffersonville IN is not incorporated by the state of Indiana, and the address given does not exist. We were told by the state of IN to file a complaint with them. Correspondence we have received from Phoenix Vacations is postmarked from Illinois. Most of the information in the presentation we attended at Going Places Travel was false. We have been trying to get a credit to our charge account, but Perry Ruiz of Going Places Travel will not comply. Do a search on Mr. Ruiz, he has close to 30 different addresses, a number of circuit court cases plus other questionable activities. We have contacted the Better Business Bureau, disputed this with our credit card company (called within 2 hours of signing the contract)and filed a complaint with the consumer protection division of the State of WI. Since we signed a non-refundable contract (even though it was based on fraudulent information) no one seems able to help us. The complaint case worker for WI has over 30 complaints against them and has forwarded information to state attorneys, but nothing has been done. Our next steps are contacting an attorney, the small claims court, and investigation by a local TV station.

I attended a presentation with my wife and we were talked into buying a product against our better judgement. We purchased a product from a guy named Adam who changed the purchase price on us 3 times before we said yes. After saying yes he told us he could do in house financing and we would pay 0% interest and our payments would be about $80 per month. My wife and I decided to do it and then felt like we were duped the prices quoted to us in the presentation were nothing like the prices that we got over the phone, it took 2 days to get an answer back and on top of that I found the exact same trip at a lower price on priceline.com. We called to complain only to find out that they wouldn't give us our money back and said we were past our 3 days of giving back the product and the $80 monthly payment came out to $143.90 not exactly the truth. We have been duped if you hear from anyone about this company please warn them. We are going to out attorney to see if he can help us. This seems like unfair business practices that need to be stopped.