£2,500 initial investment
Bristol couple Neil and Kim Bacon are successful business owners who bought a Tenerife timeshare membership for £2,500 back in 1998. It seemed like great value, Neil says. We didn t have to think about it, we signed up that day.
Unfortunately for the Bacons, this was just the start. They were upsold repeatedly over the next 12 years to the point where the expense is threatening their retirement. The couple report having been manipulated, mis-led, and outright defrauded by string of duplicitous sales people, with the worst offenders working at disgraced Maltese timeshare company: Azure
Systematically targeted
Mr and Mrs Bacon s case made the media, but is no means an unique history, according to industry experts.