Bluegreen Vacations
Reviews and Complaints

I took a tour/sales pitch and I did sign up for a sampler package which gave me 9, 000 points that cannot be used during any major holidays, June, July nor August. Once I got home I did my research and found countless complaints on this company. My experiece was just like everyone else's. My rep was new and there was a supervisor who could make things happen and twist the numbers around. No matter what was my reply they had a cheaper points plan I could get into which made me leary. I am happy I did not sign up as an "owner" because it appears that's where the real games start. I am a licensed Real Estate agent and I know you can't use timeshares as tax right offs. I didn't like how the supervisor kept selling "you will be an owner of these beautiful properties" He said it like a thousand times which made me feel like he is shoveling crap!
DON'T SIGN UP WITH BLUEGREEN!
THEY ARE SELLING LIES NOT RESORTS AT A GREAT PRICE.

I have had a vacation property with Bluegreen on sales for two years after paying this organization $995. to sell it in a 90 day period. I dropped the price to $10. to get out from under this property with no avail. I have called and spoke to the customer service at [protected] ext. 4300 and have not got any action at all on my sales account. I beleive that this is a scam of
a service to sell properties and need someone to look into this company.
My loss.

AFTER CHECKING IN AT 4 PM THE ROOM WAS ALREADY CLEANED AND READY O BE RENTED. MY WIFE AND I WENT OUT TO DINNER FOR A COUPLE HOURS AND WHEN WE RETURNED WE NOTICED THE MY PAIN MEDIATION, CONTROLLED MEDICATION FOR MY CANCER WAS GONE OUT OF OUR SUIT CASE. WE CONTACTED SECURITY AND THEY CAME IN AND CHECKED THE ENTRY COMPUTER AND NOTICED SOMEONE THAT WORKED FOR THE RESORT ENTERED THE ROOM SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE 2 HOURS. SO THEY STOLE MY MEDICATION. HOTEL MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THE PERSON STATED THEY ADDED TOWELS ONLY AND DID NOT TAKE THE MEDICATION WHAT A COINCIDENT, THAT THE MEDICATION WAS GONE AND WE DID NOT NEED MORE TOWELS OR REQUESTED MORE TOWELS. THE TIME WAS AFTER 4 PM SO THE CLEANING WAS COMPLETED FOR THE DAY. THE NEXT DAY NO CLEANING WAS PERFORMED. THIS PLACE SHOULD BE CLOSED DOWN, SINCE ITS FULL OF DRUG ADDICTS

I been been for 3 years and haven't used my time shares and they took 20000 points because I never used it.And they wouldn't let me use it because of maintains fees and the fees was suppose to be 1100 dollers but to find out they want 2015 dollers because I was 3 month late! I need some help how to sue this ripoff company please help! Because this company is ripoff!

My husband and I went through the whole thing in Gatlinburg TN in 2006 and like dummies reuped in 2007 thought it would be great! Well I have tried 3 times to use it and unable because it was booked and when I finally able to I was at Myrtle Beach without the beach and in a room with 3 kids that was not big enough for anything it was terrible! Now I have made payments every month and kept up with the problem I have is maintenance fees and I know we owe but I want to sell this and it has been impossible and bluegreen is of no help. I WANT OUT AND I WANT SOMEONE TO HEAR ME! I have paid since 2007 and still owe more than what I paid for the property and I thought it would be a great thing but I was wrong

Bluegreen is not honest in what they sell you. Only partial information given and information is given in a misleading way. Resort management in TN is terrible. Resorts are unkept. Maintenance fees are out of hand. 1st year (2007) was $800.00 this year 2011 was over $2200.00. It's buyer beware. Check them out completely then check them again for your protection.

This outfit is a TOTAL FRAUD! First of all, it is owned and operated by Iraquis who have taken full advantage of this country's aid in starting new business and even Federal and state funding, etc.

They will force senior people, who are on Medicare, to accept these "aids"
who come to their place of residence to help care for them. What these
innocent and unsuspecting seniors are not being told, though, is that the
people being sent to their homes are people who have not even been screened
and background checked, etc., before being hired, etc. Most of these so-called
"aids" have criminal backgrounds and records. They will come into someone's
house and steal anything and everything of any value, such as money, jewelry,
prescrirtion drugs, etc., etc., etc.

DO NOT allow this "agency" to send anyone into your home. This is a TOTAL
SCAM and FRAUD ring that apparently the so-called "government" is in on.
They will try to flim-flam Medi-Care recirients into believing that it is a much needed service. This is just their way of weaseling their way into your home
to check it out and figure out how to best make their heist, etc. BEWARE!

You will very clearly see this, if you ever have dealt with them. These so-called "aids" are the laziest and most useless individuals that can be imagined.
Everything that needs to be done in a household, they will claim that they don't do, or that they aren't being paid to do, etc. Why are they even there,
then? !

People be very very carefull when you are out shopping at Bass Pro Shops in the future. Jonny Morris must have lost his mind as he has let the Bluegreen Resort cockroach's into his stores to screw and scam the customer. I came across the scam at my last vist to BPS. The salesmen and women ambush you from a counter called Outdoor Travler. They claim that it is the "Best Value In The Store" They give a pretty sweet come on and have som real nice pics. of resorts you get to stay in for the low price of $129 for three days. All you need to do in return is set through a 90-120 tour and sales presentation. Well folks let me tell ya what. The first thing is $129 gets you the worst rooms they have to offer at these resorts. Next you have to pay $30 more for a weekend check in and then another $40 for a room big enough to fit in. The best part is you can't check in until 4 pm and they kick you out at 10 am the third day, so do the math you really get 2 days at this wonderfull place. Next when they set your tour time (thast right they say whenyou get to tour not you and they pick the worst time for ya) so the full day is shot. The tour is so high pressure they try and crack you and use the same crap as the rest of the timeshare people that we all know and hate.The tour was so bad I told the scumball he could keep the Bass Pro gift cards cuz I will never shop at a bass Pro Shop again if this is the way they set the customer up. Check out other web sites and you will soon learn these Bluegreen people have been screwing people since 1968. Check your local BBB and see this company has a F rating. I also have learnd these duchbags are now at all of the NASCAR race tracks as well. I guess they figure maybe they can pick off some people that have had a few drinks and screw them as well. Looks like NASCAR has sold it's soul to these bottom feeders. Folks remeber the old adage A fool and his money are soon parted. If you don't like that one how about "If it is to good to be true, then it is"

We just returned from Bluegreen Club 36 in Las Vegas. We knew it was a timeshare pitch when we signed up. We had the privilege of staying on the property. My husband and I loved the room. It was beautifully set-up with a living room, dining area, mini kitchen and large bathroom. The people that worked the front desk were friendly and inviting. The only downfall came when we attended the 90 minute presentation which lasted 3 hrs and 45 mins. They started off with a comedian who was very funny and informative (best part of the presentation). We were given a young man who said he was new (which according to the posts seems to be a theme). He was quite nice though. However once we were presented with the 20, 000 point plan for $32K, we said no. Then it went to 8, 000 pts for $9, 900 to finally a two year 12, 000 point plan for $3K. We were adament that we would not sign up for a vacation program because we had two high school graduates starting college in the fall. The "supervisor" flat out told us that we could afford it. When initially presented with the $32K plan, my husband said that he would not pay $500 a month, maybe half that would be better. However after discussing it alone, we agreed to pass altogether. Mr. Supervisor said "when you said you could afford half of the $500 monthly payment, what happened to that... were you lying?" The "soft sale" became very hard. Honestly, the only option is to just get up and walk out. These pressure sales rely on the fact that many people are raised to be polite and won't tell them to just shove it. Finally the young man in his continued attempt to "sell us", he said "You can always make more money, but you can't buy more time." I interrupted him and said, "You are exactly correct and that's why I don't want to waste anymore here. I want this to be over NOW."

All that being said, it was a nice facility and 3 days in Vegas. All the people were not bad. Even though they told us the facility in Vegas was for owners only, we found online that you can rent a room there for a hellva lot less than $32K for 10 years At 17% interest.

I am a Silver member of Bluegreen.In my opinion, this company has falsly represented itself concerning the fees that are now sucking our savings dry. I am at this time learning what permits and regulations to follow in order to protest outside of Bass Pro Shops. Any other victims who wish to help or take part, please contact me at [protected]@comcast.net

We purchased a timeshare with BlueGreen which was supposed to be a great opportunity to have something which would be a "legacy" we could use and pass on to all our children. During the sale pitch, we were told this would be paid for in 5 years and that we could rent out our points if we wanted to, use them for cruises and participate in an additional resort program where we could use "companion resorts" all over the world at very reduced prices. Our maintenance fee was once a year for $450. I should have been suspicious when we went to sign the papers and the agent tape recorded our entire conver yosation. Two years after we bought this, the maintenance fee had risen to $1250/year, my husband's company folded with the depressed economy and we found out (the hard way) that timeshares are IMPOSSIBLE to get out of; we have been scammed 3 times trying to get rid of this millstone. I spoke to BlueGreen and essentially they told us, too bad on you and tough luck that your husband has no income. There was no recourse to sell/refinance/get out of the contract which we found to be for 10 years, not the five the sales person told us. This is the biggest SCAM I ever heard of and, even though I tried to work with BlueGreen, they have no interest in doing anything but collect our money! We can't rent outour points, and the places we might choose to use are never available!
We were unable to pay the 2010 maintenance fee, so they sent us to collections. They are still collecting their monthly fee, but we have no way to use the points. We were told we could use our points (we had 20, 000 per year) to pay the maintenance fee, but when I said go ahead and use them all, I found out that for $400 per month we got only $200 for the entire year's 20, 000 points! What a rip off! If anyone ever is stupid enough to deal with this company, call me first!

We attended a Bluegreen presentation in Myrtle Beach SC. The initial presenter and the sales staff were very personable. We own three weeks of timeshare, and decided for a couple of reasons to add a fourth. Big mistake.

Upon returning to our condo, I decided for the sake of safety to research some of the claims made by their staff. The had lied in the presentation on at least two important points. Based on that, we cancelled the purchase. I just received our refund check today, and guess what, it was $65 short of the the correct amount.

I should have been more wary when we had to acknowledge not once, but TWICE in the closing that Bluegreen does not stand behind ANY statements made by their sales staff during the sales presentation. I'd never seen a disclaimer like that before in ANY type of purchasing, even used cars! LOL

The dealbreaker for us is that they made a point no fewer than three times of promising in the sales presentation that they had NEVER had a special assessment charged to owners, and never would. I found out quickly with a minimum of Google effort that the very Monday of the week we attended their presentation on the following Thursday, they had a special assessment at one of the properties of no less than $1600. I found further record of at least two other recent special assessments. To compare, at our primary property, where we have owned for 24 years, we have indeed had zero special assessments, and two hurricanes have breezed by it in those years.

By the way, the "Free Cruise" that we were given to attend the presentation is not free at all. We later learned that it costs a minimum of $200 per person, and the costs can go up from there.

These guys wouldn't know the truth if it bit them HARD upon the ***. Do NOT agree to go to their sales presentations, and definitely DO NOT buy anything from them. You'll be sorry.

We purchased this timeshare back in 1995 and have been stuck with this albatross ever since. We have never, ever used any of the resorts and have just continued to pay the fees. Money which we could have used for important things. Each time we have called to make appts. we have been told we didn't have enough points or our points did not rollover from the previous year. So trust me when I tell you that this has been a timeshare scam since the beginning. Now they want to cancel our membership because we got tired of paying the maintenance fees and timeshare fees and every other fee for resorts WE HAVE NEVER USED. We also got scammed by a company called Omega Timeshare Resellers located in Florida and they got us for over $900.00 they never sold our timeshare and this company has since disappeared. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD.?

In July of 2008, we took our grandkids to Laurel Crest, a Bluegreen Resort. We had 15, 000 points for every 2 years. On July 8th, 2008, we met with Ken and Jeannie, two Bluegreen representatives selling additional points. Both Jeannie and Ken promised us that if we bought into 12, 000 points for every year, the first year we would also carry over our 15, 000 as they were getting ready to renew August 1st. They lied to us. We did not get the 15, 000 points. We paid $10k for the 12k annual points. In a phone call to Ken in September, he even acknowledged that he probably did tell us that but he was "sorry" it just didn't work out that way.

In addition to this, you cannot get your vacation when you want it with Bluegreen. It is a day of frustration to try to book any beach resort even if you try to go the 11 months out. I don't understand why Bluegreen is not under investigation for fraud. They are no better than the Pyramid scams that swindle people out of their money. For the $700. a year in maintenance fees you have to pay, you could almost go on a vacation to a resort and not have paid the up front $10k. This seems criminal to me. Let the Buyer Beware...

our bluegreen is paid for, i have just had my tenth surgey and can not use the vacation no more i have try to be nice i tried to just give them the title back and they wont take it i mean i, m the one losing the money here the people saying nice thing, s about bluegreen just wait they will get you i have allways paid my bills but i am not going to pay for something i am not using bluegreen did lie to us so just wait till hard times fall on you and even if i was able to go on vaction we could not aford to go because fo the finical mess that bluegreen has gotton us in to they never had a place for us when we wanted it

My wife and I signd up for bluegreen back in 2006. It sounded good at the time. I was going to retire soon, and my wife and I would like to travel. So we were told about Bluegreen, and we signed up. Little did we know, ownership of a timeshare was involved. We were told we could probably rent it out if we couldn't use it ourself. That is easier said than done. We never use it, so we went to Bluegreen to see if they would buy it back. Because this is what they said was an option. They said "we don't do that, but we will give you the name of some resale companies that will sell it for you. Now I'm hearing that timeshares are worthless, and you would be lucky if you could give them away. I was wondering if anyone in Illinois had the same problem, or has afiled a complaint through the Attorney General's office. Anyone who filed a class action suit against Bluegreen can contact me at [protected]@att.net with information. i may want to be a part of it.

I am in receipt of a letter dated 3-10-11 stating that we owe $1, 485.49. If you would check the records
we turned that property back to Cibola Vista over two years ago. When we went through bankruptcy, I went
to the sales office and was assured that we no longer owned the property.
I do not believe that Bluegreen was the management group we delt with at the time, however there
should be records.
Sincerly
Kendall D. Cicchetti

John and melinda hofferbert
He may also go by the name josh?
They might be living in laguna nigel ca google them and see!
Age 39 and 31 approx. Places of business
3848 campus drive suit 217 newport beach ca
Also boiler room in las vegas selling blue green res0rt vacations
Boiler room run by rob weeks and ryan allen.
Violations against the do not call list, fair wages act. Osha laws as well as whatever they are selling which is a hard sell pitch over the phone and i have seen timeshare pitch complaints. Also las vegas nevada
A bunch of phony companies platinum properties 5 star properties
Mixed up with blue green resorts as subcontractors.
I believe this couple may still be operating out of the same place in newport beach--they are selling vacation packages to unsuspecting victims in a boiler room in the very same place iwas there and now they are selling blue green vacations
They will not tell me their name but they just took out a license for 5 star properties and they also run a bogus company in las vegas called platinum properties?. A phone number is listed there. I beleive they may be working as subcontractors for blue green vacations 3848 campus drive suite 217 newport beach and a bolier room in las vegas, the boiler room in new port beach is run by ryan allen and the boiler room in vegas is run by rob weeks. You can find their phone numbers on craigslist under customer service jobs in las vegas---they advertise for customer service reps selling vacation packages . They call leads i guess they bought from people who own timeshares or entered contests at fairs. Things like that. They change the prices constantly and you go from pitch to pitch. They are violating fair labor laws and so will probally be shut down soon for pretending that w2 workers are 1099 independent contractors. A host of other things ...I am filing complaints to many government agencies.
I saw a listing for melinda and john in laguna niguel
Ca where they may still be living. There is also an older man associated with them ==i assume he is the dad.
A man named josh? May also be involved. These are very suspicious characters! Changing names every two seconds the bbb gave their last company a f rating.

BOILER ROOM SELLING TIMESHARES HAS TURNED TO SELLING VACATION PACKAGES ___SAME ADDRESS AND IT IS run by kids---Ryan is his name and the owner I believe are the same scam artists Melinda and John Hoffen, , , , , .
See my other responses to the poor people defrauded by ESCAPE TO PARADISE
Now they own Platinum Properties in Las Vegas and 5 star properties in Newport beach.
Same address 3848 CAMPUS DRIVE Newport beach room 217- by John Wayne airport
They are violating all kinds of laws and they made an investigative reporter very mad! So they will be visited very soon by the authorities or a TV crew.

I believe they are living in Laguna Nigel, CA
You can google alot of information about them
'DONT BUY ANYTHING THAT SAYS TIMESHARE OR VACATION PACKAGE!
Not over the phone.

We were shopping at Bass Pro and was approached by a gentleman to buy a weekend package to Big Cedar in Branson. That sounded good until we tried to book and found out this was for during the week and not the weekend. Also the folks you call do not tell you that until you have called and booked a couple of two or three times. Not a reputable company in my opinion. BAD BUSINESS.The folks are friendly but they will not tell you the truth until you ask them for a refund. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS COMPANY.