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Re: the manhattan club (by Elizabeth K.):

veratop wrote:

howardb21 wrote:

marjoriem12 wrote:

We are yet another dissatisfied MC owner. We trade our week last year b/c we couldn't get any days at all. We would LOVE to become involved with a class action suit, and will write to the Attorney General. marjorie

veratop wrote:

Hi everyone, I am another dissatisfied owner that can not get her 4 days this year. We own 3/4 split Junior Studio since 2004. Until this year we had no problem reserving our days. This year I called in April, and there were no availability this year. Since the time I on a waiting list, that works very strangely I must say. I am willing to join any protest action that you plan. I believe we should have the right to contact other owners, in other words, get the owners list. Shall we write to the 2 owners board members and request an action from them? They should be able to represent us not just once a year but whenever there is an issue that management can not resolve. Tell me what do. I plan to write a letter to Attorney General. You can reach me at vera_80@hotmail.com just put 'MC Owners Protest Action' in the subject. Buy the way we may need to bradcast the situation on the inernet. Any ideas on other sites where it will get out to other dissatisfied owners? Vera

Vera, is this 2008 weeks you are talking about, as they only take request from 9mths out, they are book thru mid Sept. there are days all the way to Dec. 30 The Manhattan Club has Issues, but I own 8 timeshare and MC is still my favorit, Howard

Hi Howard, I was talking about 2007 week. I am surprised I am getting responses to the post, I placed it in September last year, if I remember it correctly. I check yahoo.com group too periodically but it does not look like we have more than 10-15 people all together. This does not sound like a class action to me. This year annual meeting is in August, I believe? Can anything be done about lowering maintenance fees? Does anyone have a plan? By the way, I do not think this is going to violate MC members privacy if we suggest for MC to send (include into an annual letter) a suggestion to add members forum to http://www.tmcny.com/ site. I believe it is being maintained from our maintenance fees, correct? Then we have the right to use it AND LET EVERYONE KNOW IT EXISTS. Would not that be better than to use yahoo or redweek? This may be a place then that every member knows about, we can gradually build momentum for a change there. Any suggestions?

Vera.

It took me some time to find a place to vent about the MC. I've just been in the same situation as most of you. Requested a few possible nights in Sept. (not available) requested a night in December (not available and this was 9 months in advance) and just called the toll free number in the RCI Endless Vacation Magazine and said that I was interested in coming into town and purchasing a timeshare but would only be in NYC in Sept and low and behold they said there was limited availability and I should confirm that visit immediately. I then called Owner Services and talked to Jose Rosario who I had talked to a couple of times this month regarding the problem. He claimed that the sales pitch is only for the new Metropolitan Suites and that new buyers would be put there and that is why there is availability. Do I believe that, I don't think so. I guess the people at Owner Services are now so used to people yelling and complaining that they are basically indifferent. They also told me I had 1 more night to use for my '07-'08 term when in fact I have 2. Not that this is doing me any good when I can't get a reservation. This policy of "use it or loss it" is also unacceptable. I think it might be a little better if they would let us carry over any unused nights from 1 year to the next. My husband and I looked at our total cost since our purchase in 10/01 and then divided that by the number of nights and it came out to $550. a night. Well hell I could be staying at the Waldorf for almost that amount. I will be preparing a letter to the board and send it registered mail and see what kind of response I get. One thing that seems to be a common thread is that we all started to have problems starting about 2 years ago. Does that mean that they totalling over sold units. Does anyone know how many weeks they can legally sell since some of it is flex time and some is fixed weeks. I own a Junior Suite, did they take some of the junior suites and convert them to the NEW Metropolitan Suites which now makes the number of suites available to us less. If anyone wants to get in touch with me about doing something as a group I can be reached at elkelsey6349@yahoo.com and just put Manhattan Club Group in the subject line.