The Vacation Station
Complaint 100357 Details

The Vacation Station is a total scam. Their sales presentation says joining the club will entitle you to huge discounts on hotels, cruises, resorts, car rentals, etc., but it's simply not true. We were enticed to hear this presentation in a respectable-looking storefront on the main tourist street in Charleston, SC, which gave us the impression it was a legitimate business -- but it's not. It doesn't seem possible, but their sales presentation, given in the form of a nice-looking PowerPoint, simply consisted of outright lies. When we called for bookings, we discovered their discounts are trivial or non-existent, and are nowhere near enough to justify the thousands of dollars it cost to join.

ONE HOPEFUL NOTE IF YOU ARE SCAMMED: We got our money back -- even tho they have you sign something saying there are no refunds even if you change your mind (which should have tipped us off). We emailed the company and threatened to complain to the city of Charleston, the SC Attorney General, and the Better Business Bureau. We spoke to a lawyer who said their no-refund proviso isn't valid, even tho we signed it, because there was "fraud in the inducement to sign the contract." That's the legal term you want to use with them.