lps1@mtuxo.UUCP (l.schmelz) (02/25/86)
I received a post card in the mail from Suncoast Travel Holiday saying that I won a trip to Florida. I was to provide my own airfare and meals; they would provide the accommodations. To register for this give-away I have to send in $69.50 to reserve my place and receive a book of coupons worth $800. This all sounded suspicious to me so I didn't send any money yet, as I have until June 87. Question: Does anybody know of anybody that has pursued this? Lance
mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) (02/26/86)
In article <1343@mtuxo.UUCP> lps1@mtuxo.UUCP (l.schmelz) writes: > > I received a post card in the mail from Suncoast Travel Holiday saying that >I won a trip to Florida. I was to provide my own airfare and meals; they >would provide the accommodations. To register for this give-away I have to send >in $69.50 to reserve my place and receive a book of coupons worth $800. >This all sounded suspicious to me so I didn't send any money yet, as I have >until June 87. > Question: Does anybody know of anybody that has pursued this? > > > Lance Aww, go ahead - send them the money. You won't get a trip to Florida, but you *will* learn a valuable lesson. -- --MKR There is none so blind as he who cannot see.
andrew@hammer.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (02/28/86)
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"I received a post card in the mail from Suncoast Travel
Holiday saying that I won a trip to Florida. I was to provide
my own airfare and meals; they would provide the
accommodations. To register for this give-away I have to send
in $69.50 to reserve my place and receive a book of coupons
worth $800. This all sounded suspicious to me so I didn't send
any money yet, as I have until June 87."
It sounds like they're going to try to sell you a condominium.
-=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]ofut@gitpyr.UUCP (03/09/86)
> > "I received a post card in the mail from Suncoast Travel > Holiday saying that I won a trip to Florida. I was to provide : > in $69.50 to reserve my place and receive a book of coupons > worth $800. This all sounded suspicious to me so I didn't send > >>It sounds like they're going to try to sell you a condominium. Undoubtably. My wife and I did something similar a few years ago. I "won" the deal at the Knoxville world fair. We spent a long weekend at a very nice condo on the Florida panhandle playing rich folks. The only catch was that we spent about three hours going through their sale routine. (They were trying to sell time share vacations where you "buy" rights to a place for two weeks a year.) We turned them down, as we were just entering grad school and more than broke. They were very nice, not _too_ hard sell, and quite unobtrusive the rest of the time. I don't remember the company, but it was _not_ Suncoast Travel Holiday. As an aside, the "tyme-share vacation" seemed sound from a business perspective. The main negative side is that you then feel obligated to spend two weeks a year at the same place. -- Jeff Offutt School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!ofut