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[Q=micheleg175] It seems like you all should file a class action law suit against this company! If anyone hired a lawyer I am sure that lawyer would look into class action seems like there is enough of you who have been taken advantage of over this! Good luck[/Q] People seem to suggest "class action lawsuits" quite casually. No personal offense or disrespect intended, but I don't think that you even begin to grasp what is actually involved in filing a class action lawsuit. it is not simple or easy and it is seldom really even a feasible option at all. First, you need to find a capable attorney who is essentially willing to work for free on the mere *possibility* of (maybe) getting paid someday in the very distant future if / when a case gets filed and a settlement is actually successfully reached --- good luck with that. Second, in a class action lawsuit it is necessary to first identify and then notify a sufficient number of impacted parties to get represented in the first place. Good luck with that too. Last but not least, even if those formidable obstacles can be overcome, settlement terms are usually ridiculous and insignificant. For example, when RCI was sued on behalf of thousands of disgruntled RCI members in a class action lawsuit some years back, when that case was ultimately resolved (6+ years later) the plaintiff [b]attorneys[/b] received hundreds of thousands of dollars for their legal services --- but the plaintiffs (RCI members) each received a puny $10 "credit" on their RCI account and a RCI "agreement" to change their self-serving ways and practices regarding RCI's handling of prime time "deposits". Big deal. That case spawned the creation and introduction of TPU's (trading power units) by RCI for all deposits; a practice that now assigns specific (but RCI-determined and quite arbitrary) "valuation" to each and every timeshare week deposited into RCI for "exchange". It is certainly your prerogative to suggest "class action lawsuits" all you want, but at the end of the day it is very difficult to actually "walk the talk". In my personal opinion, people are much more likely to elicit action and achieve meaningful results by filing individual, detailed, formal complaints with state authorities (specifically, with the state Attorney General office branch which handles consumer fraud). [b]No[/b] out of pocket cost is incurred by such complainants and it's very real legal muscle --- and no time and effort is wasted "just spinning your wheels".