BearCountry Vacations ripoff Los Angeles California

Think about it. You see a vacation for 2, all inclusive, 7 nights/8 days for $1500.00, and you have up to 5 years to use it.

Whip out the Credit Card and you're off. The seller contacts you with congratulations and states that they are only the advance booking agent, they only need $60.00 per person and refund the rest of the money to you, you get credit for $1380.00, that you will need to pay directly to the travel agent. You come away with great service, prompt refund, all around good deal.

The next contact is telling you that they are sending you the advance contract forms, that assure you of your upcoming vacation, just fill them out and send $65.00 per person ($130.00 also being deducted off the $1380.00 total owed). So, $1250.00 is owed when you finalize the dates and itinerary. Now, because you aren't going to use the vacation immediately, time is not of the essence.

The problem so far is the initial monies ($120.00) are most likely past the time you can get a refund, 30-90 days. And truthfully why would you want a refund, there are no apparent problems. The second payment is just a small down payment, again no apparent problem, you have almost 5 years to complete this deal.

Now, you have to pick multiple weeks and departure airports to fulfill your end of the signed contract. Send them off with the knowledge that you will not be notified of availability until 45-60 days prior to the first departure date. By this time the second payment of $130.00 is well outside of any stop payments, credit card fraud or any other recourse.

If you receive an itinerary, you send the $1250.00 and in 45-60 days you are on your way, OOPS, the airline/hotel overbooked, can we place you on your 2nd choice which is another 60+ days out, sure-why not, in this far. The check clears, you don't have an itinerary and no recourse......

So from the first sale to the first complaint is at least 6 months later. If these 2 "agents" sell 2 vacations per day/7 days per week for 6 months= $91,000.00, on only the "down payments". Pay off the first few complaints, send back forms not filled out properly, ignore a few more and now it's 9 months later, start sending out the itinerary's and collecting that money and by the end of the year you've scammed the $182,000.00 minus the couple of dozen "refunds", plus the last 3 months of "itinerary " payments, even at 1 per day = $112,500.00. WOW, $300,000.00 and you probably only have less than a dozen complaints, some refunded and others completely screwed.