Encore Tours and Travel / Vacation Destinations
Complaint 57716 Details

  • Date Occurred: 01/11/2014
  • Reported Damages: $300.00
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My office received a fax about great discounted vacation packages. Myself along with 3 of my co-workers all decided to take advantage of this great offer. I was the first to have a check w/d from my checking account electronically and I had them first take only 150.00 on September 16th. On September 23rd I had them take the other 150.00 from my account. After that point my co-weorkers each had their payments taken out and we all slowly received our informational packets. I knew that I wanted to take my vacation in the middle of the next year and per speaking with one of Encore's "representatives", we should wait until 60 days before we plan to go on our trip to mail my money order for the remainder of the trip. As my co-workers each planned their own trips it got increasingly more and more difficult to reach any representative at Encore and when you would get someone, I kept getting transfered back and forth between different people who never had any answers. While I was out on medical leave, my co-worker found this website and realized that we had all been scammed. Fortunately for my co-workers, at least one of their payments were within the 90 day window to get their money back from their financial institution. I unfortunately, found out past my 90 day window.

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  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair
  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair SBID #e6b1174975
  • Posted 01/14/2014
  • I too did the exact same thing, only they took the full pmt of 900.00 for the six of us to travel. I too got the run around since Oct of 2011 transferred back and forth even spoke with the manager Mr. Sinclair. Who promised me a call back 30 times at least... I have 100's of min of recorded conversations with their so called staff. Briana, Alan, david, Danial....lol what a joke. Haven't rried to get my bank involved but I am going to on Tuesday 1st thing. Did you all get an info folder in the mail post marked from TX, Austin? That looks like my 8 year old put together for a class project... how about the vouchers, has anyone followed through with the money orders yet? We have not how ever, I'm tempted. Grrr I'm so annoyed! I have tried to call them every business day at all 3 numbers I have for them sin Dec22, with no luck voice mailbox full then it hangs up. I have reported them to the TX Attourneys State General, I encourage everyone to go to their website and file their complaint with them as well. This may force the state to investigate and could get us some $s. I have also file a complaint with consumer protection too.
    Sucks to be scamed! I hope that their employees read this and feel guilt for never stepping up and saying something for this scam. KARMA will avail.
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  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair
  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair SBID #e6b1174975
  • Posted 01/14/2014
  • I too did the exact same thing, only they took the full pmt of 900.00 for the six of us to travel. I too got the run around since Oct of 2011 transferred back and forth even spoke with the manager Mr. Sinclair. Who promised me a call back 30 times at least... I have 100's of min of recorded conversations with their so called staff. Briana, Alan, david, Danial....lol what a joke. Haven't rried to get my bank involved but I am going to on Tuesday 1st thing. Did you all get an info folder in the mail post marked from TX, Austin? That looks like my 8 year old put together for a class project... how about the vouchers, has anyone followed through with the money orders yet? We have not how ever, I'm tempted. Grrr I'm so annoyed! I have tried to call them every business day at all 3 numbers I have for them sin Dec22, with no luck voice mailbox full then it hangs up. I have reported them to the TX Attourneys State General, I encourage everyone to go to their website and file their complaint with them as well. This may force the state to investigate and could get us some $s. I have also file a complaint with consumer protection too.
    Sucks to be scamed! I hope that their employees read this and feel guilt for never stepping up and saying something for this scam. KARMA will avail.
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  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair
  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair SBID #e6b1174975
  • Posted 01/14/2014

  • I too did the exact same thing, only they took the full pmt of 900.00 for the six of us to travel. I too got the run around since Oct of 2011 transferred back and forth even spoke with the manager Mr. Sinclair. Who promised me a call back 30 times at least... I have 100's of min of recorded conversations with their so called staff. Briana, Alan, david, Danial....lol what a joke. Haven't rried to get my bank involved but I am going to on Tuesday 1st thing. Did you all get an info folder in the mail post marked from TX, Austin? That looks like my 8 year old put together for a class project... how about the vouchers, has anyone followed through with the money orders yet? We have not how ever, I'm tempted. Grrr I'm so annoyed! I have tried to call them every business day at all 3 numbers I have for them sin Dec22, with no luck voice mailbox full then it hangs up. I have reported them to the TX Attourneys State General, I encourage everyone to go to their website and file their complaint with them as well. This may force the state to investigate and could get us some $s. I have also file a complaint with consumer protection too.
    Sucks to be scamed! I hope that their employees read this and feel guilt for never stepping up and saying something for this scam. KARMA will avail.
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  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair
  • SCAMMED-by-David-Sinclair SBID #e6b1174975
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • I did in fact get my money back. It was after the 90 days but we tried it anyways. I filled out a form with my bank called... Written Statement of Unauthorized Debit Unauthorized/Improper ACH or Pre-authorized Draft Debit Entries. Be honest with your bank that you thought it was a good deal and you were scammed, I had to summit any evidence I could to show that I made multiple attempts to get my money back or resolve the issue... in my case I had 5 pages of typed up conversations and lots of voice records, and a few emails, and told them I could request call logs from my cell phone provider showing 100's of calls attempted to them. The next business day the money was back in my account. The bank said that if they (encore)dispute the reversal then my documents I submitted with the form would back up my banks request for the reversal. My bank also said, that if encore has since closed the account, the money is mine. They can't dispute.
    Good luck!
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  • Complaints Filed: 40
  • Reported Damages: $34,581.78
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