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A class action lawsuit accuses Wyndham of falsely representing the value and benefit of vacation timeshares.
Plaintiffs David J. Kriens Sr. and Brenda L. Kriens say they have been Wyndham timeshare owners since July 2015, and have paid more than $80,000 to Wyndham.
The Kriens say that Wyndham has created a “highly organized and fraudulent scheme” to sell timeshares to prospective owners.
Allegedly, the company misrepresents the timeshares in order to entice customers to purchase them, but does not disclose certain prohibitive limitations about the purchases.
The Wyndham class action lawsuit says that Wyndham’s timeshare business is driven by the sale of Vacation Ownership Interests (VOIs). Allegedly, these interests are represented by “points” in Wyndham’s business model.
The Kreins say that purchasers enter into a contract, agreeing to pay a certain amount of money for a certain number of points. These points can then allegedly be used to stay at several resorts owned or operated by Wyndham or an affiliate.
To stay at a resort affiliated with Wyndham, customers reportedly must use the points. The Wyndham vacation class action says that the number of points required to stay at a resort is based on a number of factors.
The Wyndham class action states that some locations and dates of vacation require more points to book, while to book during other times and at other locations uses fewer points.
The Kreins’ Wyndham class action lawsuit says that this much is represented to prospective customers, but representatives for the company do not accurately represent certain limitations of the system.
Allegedly, representatives do not warn customers that they are in competition with other point holders to have access to vacation timeshare spaces.
Additionally, the vacation class action lawsuit says that the company restricts the availability of reservations by using the spaces for marketing and rental income.
The Wyndham false advertising class action lawsuit claims that Wyndham knowingly misrepresents the rentals to plaintiffs in the interest of increasing its profits.
The Kriens call Wyndham and affiliates “sophisticated parties with superior knowledge of complex real estate and business transactions as to each and every [customer.]”
Allegedly, the company was under “continuous duty” to disclose the stipulations and limitations of the contracts, but failed to do so. The customers say they had no choice but to rely on the company’s representations of its products, and were financially injured by it.
This Wyndham class action lawsuit is not the only one of its kind — a separate Wyndham class action lawsuit takes issue with similar points.
The Kreins are represented by Donald S. Hackett III.
The Wyndham Vacation Timeshare Class Action Lawsuit is David J. Kriens Sr., et al. v. Wyndham Destinations Inc., et al., Case No. 6:19-cv-01650-RBD-EJK, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida at Orlando.
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Please Help! Can you add us to class action lawsuit? Wyndham swindled us out of over 30 thousand of my retirement money and we are not rich, plus monthly payments for something that is difficult to use due to supply. We are both disabled, cannot afford this…so dissapointed that we fell for this that it is not worth a penny as soon as we signed all those papers…such a huge company stealing from millions of vulnerable people like us. They are evil for screwing people out of the little bit of savings that they have.
Please add my spouse and I to this class action lawsuit. How do we join?
How do I get added to this?
How can we join this lawsuit? Wyndham has ripped my girlfriend and I out of almost 15k.
Wyndham swindled me out of over 30 thousand of my retirement money and I am not rich.. cannot afford this…so dissapointed that I fell for this that it is not worth a penny as soon as I signed all those papers…such a huge company stealing from millions of seniors like myself. Crimimal.
My husband and I would like to be added to the law suit as well. Who and where I get more information from?
I would like to be added as well
We have been tricked, lied too by this company. We haven’t paid as much as some have but we have paid over 7k and we still owe 10k. We just want out and they say no. we have to pay full amount and them we can give back to them but we dont get our money back. We are having a hardship due to covid and they are like, too bad. We havent been able to use once due to the point system. we dont have enough points but we can buy more. we could have went on a hell of a vacation for 7k. lies, lies. Please add us to this law suit. we just want out.
I have been harassed by Wyndham and also have been accused as having a delinquent acct even after proving my acct was not delinquent. I have had a difficult time with everything that has happened and still managed to make payments and still they continue to call and say the payments made went towards loans I had no idea I had with them. I’m baffled. We just lost my mother n law to cancer and my mom has had a major surgery the same week, I am a healthcare worker taking care of pediatric patients in this terrible time of dealing with the corona virus, and have 4 children. My husband is out of work due to employers having to close their doors to prevent spreading the coronavirus and yet they continue to harass me for a payment and tell me I’m delinquent. Even proving the February payment was made they still call and tell me I owe for February and March. When I prove them wrong they tell me the payment went towards something else…please please please add me to the lawsuit!