Published Every Saturday. AND THE WINNERS ARE: The Australian Timeshare and Holiday Ownership Council (ATHOC), the representative body for the Australian Timeshare Industry, recently held its 19th annual National Industry Awards night, at a gala dinner designed to recognize the best of the best in each Member Company’s employees. The big winner of the night was Accor Vacation Club, taking five of the night’s major awards for Marketing, Innovation and Sales Team among others. Read More…

July 31, 2010: DEAD SKUNK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AWARD: Convicted timeshare fraudster Gary Leigh was killed around 9:00am July 24 when he was hit by a car in Marbella, Spain. Leigh, who conned thousands of people out of their fortunes, died on the spot of severe cardiac arrest while cycling on the A-7 in Marbella. In an ironic twist, Leigh managed to involuntarily create one last mess for vacationers: The accident caused a massive traffic jam with many day-trippers stuck in traffic until late in the afternoon when the highway was finally cleared. Read More…

July 17, 2010: CHEEZ IT! IT’S THE COPS! Florida’s timeshare fuzz (aka investigators with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services) made a surprise raid on an Ormond Beach timeshare resale call center on July 14, carrying off boxes of records and computers. The raid at Buy Owner Resort Marketing was apparently spurred by complaints filed with the State Attorney General’s Office from all over the country… Read More…

July 10, 2010: WHAT’S ON THE MENU THIS WEEK? CONSOLIDATED RESORTS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE: Making this short and sweet, the Consolidated Resorts bankruptcy is winding down and Artie Spector’s ASNY Company has been confirmed as the stalking horse bidder for the assets. Officially: “The Trustee and The ASNY Company, LLC (read Arthur Spector), a Delaware limited liability company have entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement… Read More…

Published every Saturday, with carcasses collected for the grill throughout the week. Got a slab you wanna toss? On the Menu This Week: THE HEADQUARTERS THAT ISN’T THERE: A bogus timeshare resale company named Property Experts Marketing got seriously busted recently by the St. Louis, MO Better Business Bureau in a way that would be funny if it weren’t so disgusting. Really, you can’t make this stuff up! The company listed the address for its headquarters as 509 Olive Street in downtown St. Louis. But there’s a problem with that…

Published every Saturday. On the Menu This Week: Who’s doing what to who, and where and when, and why should you care? Who’s getting BIGGER, who’s getting screwed, who’s in a money crunch, who’s been promoted or moved, and MORE! And most important, who won the Dead Skunk Award this week? Got some roadkill you’d like to toss on the grill? Send it on in…

Published every Saturday. On the Menu This Week: Who’s doing what to who, and where and when, and why should you care? Who’s getting BIGGER, who’s getting screwed, who’s in a money crunch, who’s been promoted or moved, and MORE! And most important, who won the Dead Skunk Award this week? Got some roadkill you’d like to toss on the grill? Send it on in…

Published every Saturday. On the Menu This Week: Who’s doing what to who, and where and when, and why should you care? Who’s getting BIGGER, who’s getting screwed, who’s in a money crunch, who’s been promoted or moved, and MORE! And most important, who won the Dead Skunk Award this week? Got some roadkill you’d like to toss on the grill? Send it on in…

Published every Saturday. On the Menu This Week: Who’s doing what to who, and where and when, and why should you care? Who’s getting BIGGER, who’s getting screwed, who’s in a money crunch, who’s been promoted or moved, and MORE! And most important, who won the Dead Skunk Award this week? Got some roadkill you’d like to toss on the grill? Send it on in…

Published every Saturday. Who’s doing what to who, and where and when, and why should you care? And who won the Dead Skunk Award this week?