It first starts with a phone call from a telemarketing company offering a "FREE" trip to you if you come to a 90 minute presentation. Once there you are introduced to a salesperson (guide) they ask you question about your traveling habits, then tell you that it is not a timeshare or vacation club.
In the presentation they tell you that you can travel like travel agents as long as you buy their program. They offer classes to help you with you new venture. At the end of the presentation they tell you if you buy today you will receive extra items: like 250 free business card (they fail to mention that you have to pay for the shipping and have to use the Dallas address), a website, an extra ID card for your spouse, and an increase of commission from 25% to 80%.
If you say no then a second person will come to the table to try to lower the set price from $5995.00 to as low as $1900.00. Telling you that everything is a 100% tax right off. Also telling you that the "FREE" trip is yours weither you buy the plan or not. Once they have gotten you to agree, they then take you into an other room to do the paperwork.
They get your ID cards done after they do the paperwork, give you a handbook, a bag, and a class schedule. Then you pick up your free trip. At first they didn't tell anyone that you had to pay a refundable deposit on the "FREE" trip along with never getting your dates that you want. Upgrades are available with an additional cost to you.
The classes are a joke. They basically give you the run around about commissions and how to get travel agent discounts. I have booked two trips and never seen a commission check yet. Also the website cost $40 a month and doesn't work properly most of the time. During the presentation or the introduction class they don't tell you that the website cost $40 a month.
This company should not be in business. They now have there own telemarketing team and a website called almostfreetrips.com. To get more victims into there company. They like people between the ages of 40 and 65. With an annual income over $50,000.00 a year. The reason that they pick people between those ages is that most will not report that they have been scammed.
If you read this PLEASE do not fall for this scam and tell others not to either!
M & A
Memphis, Tennessee
U.S.A.
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