On March 1, 2008 I attended a 90 minute presentation at The Star Vacation Club of Schaumburg. I know that there are some scams out there but the last vacation presentation I went to gave us EVERYTHING that they promised!

But NOT The Star Vacation club of Schaumburg! As of today May 13th...WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED the FREE dinner for 2 at the Darden Restaurant...nor did we receive the $100 gas card that was promised.

What we DID receive was papers to fill out to get the papers to send in to get the gas card...guess what a $25 card per month for the next 4 months...IF WE PURCHASE $100 worth of gas per month...keep the receipts...send them in within 21 days of the letter in a stamp pre addressed envelope.

From doing some research I found out that they are "fly by night" and people that do actually purchase the 5K, 3K, or the $1k vacation packages are not satisifed and have to go round and round with them too!

I just THANK GOD that I did not spend any money!!!

We were cohursed into a vacation taking friends along. Many hours on the phone with Paul. That night was the last chance. I finally agreed to sign friends not knowing for sure if they would go. I paid our down payment and theirs. They did not go. We invited another couple to go to Hawaii. They were going until his uncle was dying of cancer and they were the only ones to take care of him. I talked to Victor. Told him every thing that happened. That we to were cancelling Hawaii. He said we will start over again. WE will erase that vacation. He gave us until Feb of 2011. We will go to Jamacia for 2 weeks. Victor never got back to me. Every time I called he is in some other dept. I asked for Erik. He set a nice vacation up for us another time at Dominion Republic. I wrote Star Vacation Club on 08/05/10 to cancel our Hawaii trip. I got no response. Now for the complete disaster. We recieved a call the night of 09/15/10 around 9:00pm. She had been trying to get ahold of me earlier. Her name was Sonya. Can't remember what her title was. She wanted to get our trip to Hawaii set up. I said we aren't going to Hawaii. Your are going to Hawaii for 2 weeks with your friends. They aren't going either. They cancelled due to cancer in the family. Sorr about the cancer but you are going to Hawaii. You are booked for 4 islands (wrong) we were booked for 3. We were told we could take 1 island or 4 but if you take 4 you are packing & unpacking to much. So we chose Maui, Hawaii & Oahu . She said we can't. We have 2 bed rooms & 4 islands. I told her we had this all worked out with Victor. You can't change this trip!! I am not going. The conversation got very heated. She will transfer me to her supervisor. That got even worse. She said we couldn't use our friends down payment on our 2 weeks. We would either have to go to Hawaii for a month. Each 2 weeks costing us $2, 596.00 or we could go on 4 trips. I told Victor I don't know who these people are but I won't deal with them. The supervisor or manager was Cindy. By the time we got done we were screaming at each other. I told her to take her vacations and shove it and she told me I will take it sweetie and hung up!!!
This e mail was sent to Victor on 09/17/10. I told Victor we will never do vacations with SVC again. Wish we had never heard of PAUL. I'm not used to being under that kind of Pressure. On 09/08/09 he said it was the last day to book friends. We must have been on the phone at least 2 hrs. A month later I got the same call from a woman!! I said we were already booked a month ago and that was supposed to be the last offer. I said you better keep your records straight. She looked it up and said she was sorry and hung up. I'm sorry I didn't get her name.
We don't have that kind of money to spend. We are trying to enjoy our Golden Years but not this way. I then told Victor I was sorry he worked for such a company. You and Erik were always very nice.
Victor never got back to me. I was very disappointed. I want my down payment back for our friends and ourselves. I sent them
$1, 339.00. We have nothing to show for it but a bunch of grief.
We have been members with this club since Nov. 1998. We have been able to use a hotel in FL. for a week before the rates went up. We went on a nice trip to Dominion Republic and that is it. Every time we called for a condo there was nothing available so we give them a $159.00 maintinance fee every year for nothing. The only smart thing we did was to lock in the maintinance fee!!! They offered us and upgrade on condo's for the rest of our life on Feb. 22, 2006 but what a waste of money that would have been when we could never get what we asked for.
I don't know who is getting this complaint or what good it will do. I would like to hear from some one.
Thanks,
A. Isham
A member of TSN for 12 years

I was told there would be no presentation, 90 minutes later I declined the offer and was given my "gifts" A gas voucher for 150.00 in free gas, a free paid trip for 2 and 2 airline tickets. I went to the site to register for the gas at freegas.com(another scam) where I had to pick two promotional sale items in order to get the gas card and then pick two more after I had answered no to 4 or five surveys. I declined. The trip is unavailable and the airline tickets are unobtainable. I should have listened to my mother nothing in this life is for free

i was called last month regarding a free vacation from star vacation... at first i thought that this is just a scam... but it wasn't!!! out of my curiosity, i decided to attend the presentation, when i enetered the place i was too nervous with the presentation thinking that they will force me to buy something!!! but then, , i enjoyed the presentation and had a good conversation with the presentor, , as he said " they can't please everybody". they are just trying to give away vacations, and i felt so sad for them. BECAUSE FOR ME THEY ARE JUST GIVING SAMPLE VACATION FOR US TO ENJOY!!! NOT TO CRITICIZE!!! have a goodheart for them, they are trying to please you!!! they can just say that this is a scam but not, , if you will give the chance you will know it!!! and realize!!!

I am completely appalled how these people can do this. I am a seventeen year old high school graduate who answered their call 3 days ago. The person who told me that I had won one of the "5" guaranteed prizes even ended up giving me his private cell number to contact him for information about this. They said I could've won either an APPLE IPOD TOUCH, $20, 000 GRAND PRIZE, $500 CASH, 3 DAY TRIP, and who knows what other thing they threw in. I was more excited at the fact that this had been the first "set of good news" in a while... My father had just been injured again at work. His works comp check hasn't come since january. Some ignorant girl rearended me and its a 4000 dollar hit which her parents are arguing to pay for. This is middle class. Thats what it means to be in the US nowadays and it breaks my heart to know that these kids [because the guy that told me about he supposed prize is only 19] are lining for 10 dollars an hour [he told me his wages] and have no remorse for it. Luckily, I have tried to get in the mind of this guy and ask him why he chose to be aliening marketer and he replied a job is a job...

But i don't agree with that, with my persuading arguments about why this type of "job" if you wanna call it that, is wrong,
hes been able to realize what horrid things he has been causing for innocent people... my appointment would've been with my father at 1030 today, saturday the 14th of june, but thanx to a quick little google search and the complaints of all you generous people who took the time to type in their feedback and situations... you prevented me and my father from wasting our time, gas, and energy.

I sincerely thank you for it. I know I'm just 17, but this type of thing is something that affects anyone, regardless of age or location.

FYI:
The office they were planning on sending me and my father was the following

Star Vacation Club
1920 Thoreau Dr. N
Suite 151
Schaumburg, IL 60173
847.303.5721

They offer many incentives, like $50 gas rebate, dinner for 2
all untrue.

Please, beware of all this stuff... I can't believe how easily i almost fell into the trap.