A DVC member scamming these poor victims, wow

[Hunclemarco]

I do feel bad for the victims.
A little research would have helped though... Airline and park tickets? ... Both items that cannot be purchased through DVC. I also agree... would have liked to have seen confirmation numbers for all products first.

If they took a vacation from Sunday to Sunday of Thanksgiving week, and stayed at a 2 bedroom at VWL, that's 309 points... say at $15 per point, that's only $4635 (used highest point possible for scenario)

Deluxe dining per person would have been about $720.

Ticket costs would have been about $390 each for 7 day Park Hopper.

A trip for 5 Adults would have come to about $10,000 average. There would have been a little over $4000 still to be accounted for, and i can't imagine all of that for airfare...even for 5 people. (child prices would have made the cost less)

(If we were to account for 9 Adults (Max number in a 2 bedroom unit), the total less airfare would have been $14655.00)

The article didn't say how many were in their travel party, so my scenarios may be moot. (just me playing mind games...)

Regardless, i do feel bad because in either event, they were scammed.
Like the article said, she must have been a smooth talker.

 

[udflyer00]

I just saw this article on another DVC site... This is crazy!! It's a little fault to the renters for sure, as you said not really knowing how to ask for the information and when they didn't get a confirmation number that should've been a HUGE red flag... It's a shame that this happens out there as I know our group here is very trustworthy! Still just shake my head at those amounts she took from them, crazy they gave her that much without any kind of confirmation of an actual reservation. We're members, and I've rented but even if it's for a lot of points I only ask for partial payment once we make the reservation as a hold and then request the rest closer to the 31 day mark as that's the point of no return... But still once I have the confirmation number I put it in an envelope and ship it off to them.

It's too bad stuff like this happens, I guess now I can feel for a little bit of the uneasiness from the renters outside of our community.