07/10/2010

Scam with Cheap Trips Inc./Promotion for 4-Complimentary Air Fare/with Incentive Travel Plus

All my problems began when I received a solicited phone call from a company called Cheap Trips Inc located at P.O .Box 2036 Cherry Hill, NJ 08034# 1800-211-5119. The fact that they don't give a physical address should have been a warning for me. Their promotion pitch was you will receive a lifetime membership with 4-complimntary Air Fare ticket to Orlando, Cancun, Hawaii, or San Diego with the purchase of qualifying hotel not Resort, they also didn’t state they required a 7-days booking for a Resort in the membership package mailed. The cost of lifetime membership was $119.00, with this membership you are to receive, 4- complimentary air fare tickets, several bonuses included in you're mailed out package, and means of getting discounted air fare or low fare as a member. (Well) none of this turned out to be true. When I got ready to request my 4-complimentary airfare tickets, I was directed to several web sites Choose My Resort.com, exciting vacations for you.com. The issuing party for the 4-complimentary tickets was Incentive travel Plus located at 4196 Merchants Plaza suite 310, Lake Ridge VA 22192 # 866-963-2199. (Now here is the Scam!!!)
You go to choosemyresort.com :place a request to book a Resort, you then receive a confirmation number, but no one calls you back from the Resort. After no call back I contacted Cheap Trips, they then forward me to another web site called exciting vacation for you. Once there you're charged a $25.00 dollar processing fee to redeem your certificate for the 4-complimentary air fare tickets. Before you can get the air fare tickets you must pay for you're resort booking which is actually collected by Incentive Travel Plus.” Now this is where they really get you”. Please go to link and review their link. . You are required to book a Resort for 7-days in which they are charging $75.00 dollars per night per person. There are 4 people in my party, so that cost for me would be
$75 X 4=300.00 per day X 7-days required booking, that’s $2, 100.00 for a seven day stay at the Resort. (Now) if I had $2, 100.00 I could buy my own airfare for 4 people, plus find a discounted hotel to stay and still have spending money left over. The ending result is the fees they are charging for the Resort is so expensive which makes it impossible to book, so you don’t get the free 4-complimentary (air fare tickets that was promised). To add to that you only get $ 300.00 on domestic fare and $500.00 on international fare. “. Scammmmm if I ever seen one” On the serious side If you have been Scam by these companies let's put them out of business by filing a (Class Action Law Suit) report them to their Better Business Bureau, The Federal Trade Commission. Please what ever you do, do something. We need to make it hard for them to practice Deceptive Trade Practices and misleading promises. My business email address is [email protected] Be ware

Cheap Trips Inc number is 1-800-211-5119 if you call you will only get Ed or Fredrick, the managers name is Chris but he don't return calls, I've left several message for him to call back, he never does. The Owner which I heard is name John Ketchum you can't find him.