The timeshare industry has been blighted and by some scoundrels which operate within it. When the consumer reacted and banded together the industry felt a need to so as well. Of course, many who did not mis-sell and did deliver value for money did not have a need to be protected by an industry institutions, therefore, many elected not to join the institution.
Over the years many timeshare resorts have come into existence and equally most have do not want to be assisted by or associated with what is being described as the legitimate timeshare industry Body, the RDO.
The RDO History has been very chequered in the past. It originally formed the “Timeshare Council” then disbanded it, in preference to the “Organisation for Timeshare in Europe” OTE, again after many allegations emerged, it too, was disbanded and/or rebranded to what it is known now as The Resort Development Organisation or the RDO.
The RDO suggests they are the legitimate industry but equally this self-acclaimed accolade is not assented to by the vast majority of the resorts who deliver the timeshare concept.
Some of the RDO membership are listed and as Platinum members and/or affiliates and they are: -
Club La Costa. [CLC]
They have been denounced in the past as mis-sellers of timeshare, have ignored timeshare laws, its conventions articles and substantial damages have and are still being awarded against them, yet the RDO does not admonish its members and CLC’s own membership of the RDO is continual.
Diamond Resorts International [DRI]
They have been invested by the federal government in the U.S. they have received many hundreds of thousand in finds, have been the subject of many internationals judgements and have been one of the most complained of timeshare sellers in the U.S and Europe. Again, fined sued and adjudicated by the courts and as habitually mis-selling timeshare. They too now face a massive 1 billion lawsuits in the U.S and hundreds of consumers pursuing them in Europe. Yet they too are members of the RDO and one of its directors Mrs Susan Crook is the Managing Director of the RDO.
Shawbrook Bank Ltd
They too have been accused of having an “unfair relationship” with timeshare resorts who they have elected [via agency agreements] to sell finance to many timeshare consumers.
Silverpoint/Resort Properties
These twins are and have always been a prolific mis-seller of timeshare, have waged an assault on the consumer senses, have mis-sold fixed, floating week timeshares, points, fraction ownership products and now Leisure credits investments and are the subject of many supreme court ruling against them.
Anfi Sales SL
This Resort has always been known as the sellers of unlawful timeshare contracts, have flouted the law many times and have been taken to the supreme court who found them guilty. Not being members of the RDO at the time, when they were found guilty they sought sanctuary from the ROD, who despite they self-declared code of conduct, welcomed Anfi into the fold as members.
RCI
They did defeat 14,000 claims from consumers however, the court ruled they did breach the very contracts they authored and the court was surprised how the mistreated they own consumers.
Does this sound like a legitimate organisation?
Websites
With most professional organisations, they have a website with gives out information and provides updates for its membership. Generally, they own and have advertised through a website, but this is timeshare, and the RDO have created many websites to litter the internet with their take on timeshare and consumer rights.
You have the
http://tatocconsumerhelpline.eu/
http://www.timesharetaskforce.org/
http://www.timesharetaskforce.org/
the have other websites facebook account and blast their messages over many other forums. The RDO Membership Directors have assisting website Like:
http://thetimesharelord.blogspot.co.uk/
To name a few
Each resort member equally has a website each flattering the other members
TATOC
TATOC, The Association of Timeshare Owners Committees Ltd, is controlled by Directorship, most of which are Diamond Resorts representatives. In fact, the CEO Harry Taylor was a Director of Diamond Resorts and its manager was employed by Diamond resorts. As this purports to dispenses Consumer Advice, it does so in subjection to its paymasters. The Timeshare resorts and the RDO.
In Europe, there are well over 1,000 resorts [if the RDO is to be believed] yet only 6 % of the resorts elected to support the RDO, even less aspire to membership of TATOC.
Further TATOC boasts only 9o resorts members, therefore, again the vast majority of timeshare resorts do not believe TATOC provides a corresponding benefit. Again TATOC boasts a membership of 400,000, Yet that too is a lie, as no such vast membership does exist.
So putting it into context the RDO and TATIOC only represent a fraction of the timeshare industry yet place themselves as being the legitimate ones which that suggestion is simply untrue.
When you consider legitimate -v- illegitimate we find the members of the RDO and TATOC are the most problematic in comparison to those so-called illegitimate resorts.
TATOC over the years has always been supported by [RDO] and some of its affiliates. The RDO suggests it did extend a hand of friendship to Sandy Grey many years ago, as presumably, he was very knowledgeable about timeshare consumer rights, that said the RDO did not see “eye to eye” with Sandy and went with Harry Taylor’s TATOC and the advice they dispensed. In doing so, many members of the RDO paid large sums of money to support TATOC, believing a Benefit would follow.
Harry Taylor is a retired Butcher and claims to have worked for Co-Operative, therefore is ignorant and as to the contractual matrix and application of law. He’s has stated, he bought timeshare when he retired and offered himself up as a committee member of the club he bought into.
Being retired, he presumably believed that position would give him something to do and whilst retired. What he did deliver to the committee [he was elected to] was of such benefit to Diamond Resorts, they, in turn, rewarded Mr Taylor with a Directorship of Diamond Resorts European Collection Ltd on the 13th of July 2007. The timeshare Public has seen, that position has brought Mr Taylor many other benefits.
Whilst being a Director of Diamond he went by the name of “Henry”, not “Harry” that directorship lasted until the 12th of September 2013.
On the 27th of April 2011, he became a Director of TATOC and filed that directorship in the name of “Harry”. Therefore, whilst operating for the timeshare industry he went by the name “Henry” and when Directing a consumer association, he went by the name “Harry”. In 2015 the companies house department created a new type of website which linked Director’s activities which of course brought this matter to light.
Therefore, it is true that Mr Taylor was a Director of a prolific timeshare seller deemed to be “nasty” and represented a consumer association which was supported financially by the Timeshare industry and the nasty seller.
Mr Taylor also boasts of many accolades which have been delivered to him and by the timeshare industry, the South African Flexi Club and RCI to name a few. TATOC did stand for The Association of Timeshare Owners Committees and comprised of a small group of Timeshare Club chairmen who wanted to assist consumers and with regards to the maintenance fees payments the clubs imposed. It was an unincorporated association [not a Company].
TATOC as a company was only incorporated on the 10th of December 2001, yet in 2014, TATOC claimed it was 25 years old when only 13 years had passed from incorporation.
In the January 2007, Mr Taylor did position himself within TATOC and became its secretary however he blasted at the time, that he was its governing mind yet wasn’t.
Therefore the 2-main institutions in Timeshare are TATOC and the RDO and are influenced by Members of Diamond Resorts.
TATOC Directors has a selection of common Directors in 2 companies, TATOC and TATOC Consumer Helpline Ltd.
In January 2017 Mr Taylor has reported to others that the RDO tried to take over TATOC. In so doing, the RDO wanted to give TATOC a loan and if accepted, the RDO demanded that a) TATOC hand over the rights to the TATOC Logo’s, b) that the RDO could elect 2 permanent Directors on the board of TATOC and c) when Mr Taylor retired, the RDO would take up the chairmanship of TATOC, therefore we might see two worlds collide.
Refusing the RDO offer in favour of a better one, Mr Taylor is trapped between a rock and hard place and his self-reinforced delusion of grandeur is failing fast, as the steadfast support he did enjoy, evaporates and the RDO is now prepared to throw it long-serving supported “under the bus”.
The timeshare industry and mainly the RDO membership have been sledged and taken to court by many consumers, who are disgruntled and the actual complaints appear to be suppressed. To date, a thundering silence exists in TATOC and the RDO and in respect to the many unlawful contracts the RDO members have sold which adds only to the confusion.
In 2011 TATOC under the control of Harry Taylor, went on a mission and to investigate those who claimed to assist Timeshare consumers which he said they did, but did not. That mission was supported by TATOC’s many affiliated members, who were not the subject of the sledging TATOC conveyed.
TATOC led by Harry Taylor and infused by Mark Caldicott rained many assaults at certain companies, claiming they were “cold calling” consumers, when not. The evidence they purported to have is, in fact, it is a collection of “nonsense”. Many have lost money in the confusion TATOC has created and many other companies have suffered at the hands of a corrupted process.
TATOC formed part of the “Timeshare Task Force” contributed to that alleged force and did on numerous occasions supply it with what is corrupted information. That information was proffered to the E.U and was questioned by the E.U as being information which was not compatible with their own finding. The assaults and many allegations which TATOC have perpetrated were reserved to those who did not believe in the TATOC message, therefore, TATOC protected many of its banded affiliates and tried to ostracise those who did not believe in the TATOC message.
Many were outraged including many in the legal profession [TESS being one]. TATOC claimed to independent, but are clearly not.
TATOC has lied to the timeshare public and asserted some are cold-callers when no such activity had ever taken place.
TESS’s mission is to expose TATOC, Harry Taylor and the inept manager Mark Caldicott. Inept might seem contentious, however, Mr Caldicott claims to investigate and report on matters he is utterly unqualified to handle. Parts of the timeshare industry have supported TATOC and the Harry Taylor mission for a long time, equally, the timeshare industry did support Mind-timeshare and until they were exposed for their disrespect of a court penal notice. Therefore, Mind-timeshare has been abandoned and TATOC appears lined up to be thrown to the wolves. The timeshare industry is fervently in support of a new kid on the block under the guise of the Timeshare Taskforce and Timeshare Business Check however Like TATOC they to are supported by the RDO but are not squeaky clean either as they own the enterprise.
TATOC have held a conference with the timeshare industry, took their sponsorship money and have perpetrated ruses conceived by Harry Taylor who [like I said] is being thrown under the bus now and by the RDO.
TATOC has been supported largely by the RDO who have introduced many financial helpers, they have bestowed Harry Taylor and TATOC with an abundance of professional accolades [over the years] and because of the Support of TATOC who appears to have steered away from being an independent organisation and are merely the lap-dog of the timeshare industry.
The ex-butcher has no legal experience or qualifications, yet pretended to understate the complex contractual matrix’s surrounding the timeshare offerings. Equally, Mark Caldecott is untouchable and when delivering false information to the timeshare public at large.
In disarray, last year Emily Collins and Christine Roberts resigned from TATOC, its registered office has moved from 1 Colmore Rowe, Birmingham, to Temple Street Birmingham and them back to 1 Colmore Rowe, the flagship Timeshare resort which Harry Taylor officiated over has crashed by allegations from Lakeview timeshare landlord and its publication of the share-time Magazine has stopped. In this backdrop, the legal profession has sledged TATOC, exposed its many faults and all the time it was supported by many industry affiliates some of whom are scoundrels.
Harry Taylor said “Our priority is to add credibility to the consumer and the media, and raise the profile of the industry”
By contrast on the 12th of March 2014, TATOC announced it had a strategic partner in Aroma who also sell timeshare products in the UK.
In the UK they are known as Aroma Spice. In South Africa, they are known as Flexi Club.
TATOC’s CEO attended a conference with Flexi Club and the press were told by Johann, Managing Director of First Resorts.
“Industry titans attending the annual awards ceremony included: Dimitris Manikis, Managing Director of RCI South Africa; Harry Taylor, Executive Chairman of TATOC (UK Timeshare regulatory organisation), and Robin Mills, MD Aroma UK and Europe.
This was a monumental lie, TATOC is not now or ever been a regulatory organisation and the comment was delivered, to delude the Timeshare public.
https://firstgroupweletyoube.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/magalies-park-golf-resort-takes-top-award/
The Citizens Advice [CAB] have for years’ sign posted needy consumer to TATOC. The CAB has been told many times that all is not well with TATOC with the explanation that TATOC does deliver industry advice. Despite that advice, CAB still persisted in the signposting to TATOC explaining they have to as a result of advice from the Competition and Marketing Authority CMA. When we approached the CMA, they said “they will not listen to complains” and refer us back to the CAB. This shows the inept attitude of Government and the lazy approach of our once great consumer association, CAB.
TATOC for years has openly claimed that they have ever increased membership and from 150,00 to 400,000 yet, now only 700 of which they are 75 timeshare resorts.
Therefore, from a humble background Harry the Ex-Co-Op Butcher from Liverpool, became a salesman and sold with wonderful colours “not a timeshare but the timeshare industry”.
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Posted on: 29th April 2017
