Global Discovery Vacations Refusal to Cancel Unwanted Membership Nationwide

This is to call attention to a vacation membership company that engages in questionable consumer and information privacy practices. The company is Global Discovery Vacations. If you receive an invitation to one of their meetings/seminars, please be careful . Ask pointed questions regarding the length of membership, hidden costs, ability to opt out of your membership, the ways they will use your personal information and their marketing practices.

My wife and I attended one of their meeting over 20 years ago. We signed up for a membership but discovered that there were caviots that would result in higher costs. We notified the company that we wanted to cancel our membership. The company told us we could not cancel but could suspend our membership; in essence the membership is for life.

Over the years we have renewed our objections  to our information remaining in their data base and on their marketing list. After posting comments on various consumer sites about this company, I received a call from them (this was several years ago).  They agreed to “cancel my membership and delete our information” and I thought that had been don until I received a marketing letter from them that began “Dear Member”.

Like the Mafia, these guys will use the membership process to gain a strangle hold on you and your information. Although their methods has not cost me additional money, only God knows how they have been using (and possibly selling) our information.

We want nothing to do with this company so why do they want to hold our information hostage? We can’t force them to engage in ethical business practices but we can warn you to “beware!”