Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "trackback" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+trackback" bit from the end of the URL.
Concentration
Samuel Johnson once said: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
It seems that mentioning Federal District Attorneys can have a similar effect.
The paperwork for the vacation timeshare I bought last summer has been screwed up for months, and yesterday I decided I was tired of being given the run-around by the local office. So I sent an email to the corporate office including the following paragraphs:
I believe that the inter-state nature of this transaction makes the fraud a
Federal offense, but it will be up to my attorney to decide which District
Attorney to approach. I will be meeting with my attorney next week on a
number of matters, including this problem.I will also be notifying the [name]-Federal Credit Union that they are a party to
a fraudulent transaction.
The credit union is in Florida, RCI is headquartered in Indiana, the corporate headquarters of VRG, the brokerage that sold me the timeshare, is in Illinois, and I am in Colorado. Even if the bank transaction wouldn't qualify as interstate wire fraud (which I suspect it might) the diversity of jurisdictions should qualify this as a federal case.
I just received a call from the corporate office promising to straighten out the problem and offering compensation for the delay. It remains to be seen whether they actually get it fixed, but the woman I spoke to seemed quite motivated to avoid involvement by attorneys. So I am cautiously optimistic.
I suspect the response might have been less prompt if I had only talked about small claims court... and if the Indiana Attorney General weren't on a crusade against timeshare scams.
I still need to set up an appointment with a lawyer: my will is outdated, and these aren't the only bozos I've had to deal with recently.
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