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Orlando Sentinel Article
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Woman Charged in Disney Vacation Scam
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captainkidd
Well-Known Member
Book your own vacations my friends. It's pretty easy.
or at least do some research!
"The $1,200 deal -- which included airfare, seven nights at Disney's Polynesian Resort, park entrances, free meals and a rental car for a family of four -- was pure fantasy. So was the offer for a limo ride to a romantic restaurant and spa treatment for his wife."
"The $1,200 deal -- which included airfare, seven nights at Disney's Polynesian Resort, park entrances, free meals and a rental car for a family of four -- was pure fantasy. So was the offer for a limo ride to a romantic restaurant and spa treatment for his wife."
shoppingnut
Active Member
Or at least use someone that has been recommended by a friend or family who they've used before. I use Kingdom Konsultants all the time and am very happy to let them get on the phone to get my ressie, so I don't have to deal with the uneducated people on disney's phone lines.
People who do this make me sick. What kind of right or justification do they have for hurting people!
Well I'm glad she's been caught. I feel sorry for the families though, they probably won't get much, if anything in the way of compensation. Yes, they should have done a little more research but they are not the first people to be drawn into scams and certainly won't be the last.
Well I'm glad she's been caught. I feel sorry for the families though, they probably won't get much, if anything in the way of compensation. Yes, they should have done a little more research but they are not the first people to be drawn into scams and certainly won't be the last.
RiversideBunny
New Member
That woman should be forced to sit through Stitch's Great Escape for eight hours straight, with no break.
shoppingnut
Active Member
That woman should be forced to sit through Stitch's Great Escape for eight hours straight, with no break.
And after that Small World :ROFLOL:.
OFTeric
Well-Known Member
The after that The enchanted tiki room under new management!
jhastings74
Well-Known Member
Eeeeee.......not the best generalized statement......
I'm sorry to hear that you've had bad experiences with them....they've always been fantastic with us. And I know many who do/have worked Reservations...they are far from 'uneducated'....
(*steps off soapbox, puts it in trunk, and drives away...*)
WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
That woman should be forced to sit through Stitch's Great Escape for eight hours straight, with no break.
...it's not like she KILLED someone!
Aren't you being a little harsh? :lol:
RiversideBunny
New Member
Dude, she cheated people out of their WDW money.
It's not like she just stole grandma's social security check or her grocery money or the money for her medicine. Or took money out of the collection plate at church.
This was WDW money.
:lol:
MGMBoy
Well-Known Member
Maybe if that $25,000 HAD gone to the Mouse then we'd actually get a REAL SM refurb...And a working Yeti...And Beastly Kingdom...And a fifth gate! :hammer:
shoppingnut
Active Member
I've had way too many bad experiences with the travel people on the disney phone lines. Some were so bad that I would tell them I had to go and hang up and call again so I would hopefully get someone who had a clue. And, yes, uneducated in what they were selling, they would tell me things that I knew were incorrect. If you are going to sell a disney vacation, then you should know what you are selling and if you don't, don't make something up to appease someone on the phone line, because that just makes my angry.
I've checked around on a couple of news sites and that seems to be the copy they all have at the moment. If there's more info out there, I'd love to see it too.
MGMBoy
Well-Known Member
Sadly...No worse then any other call center (still better then if it were overseas). I've done the same thing with other call centers (the pretend to have to go thing). I know at least a few people who work at the call center and I know they'd bend over backward for a caller. Unfortunately I'm sure there are also those who are the opposite.
I've also heard of call center people making claims and promises that they're unable to keep. Just don't think lumping the hundreds of them into one big heading is unfair.
RiversideBunny
New Member
That woman should be forced to sit through Stitch's Great Escape for eight hours straight, with no break.
And then, make her eat dinner at Tony's Town Square.
The horror, the horror.
scarpiapiano
New Member
And then, make her eat dinner at Tony's Town Square.
The horror, the horror.
Then put her on the Teacups for the evening:fork:
CAPTAIN HOOK
Well-Known Member
While a few are clever enough to thinks of these scams, hundreds are dumb enough to fall for them. And so, on goes the world..........