Property owners beware: no matter how nice your house is, my wife and I will never rent or lease it so long as the property is listed with vacation station. Vacation Station permanently lost our business by sheer incompetence. We saw a beautiful house at a cheap price online that we were about to lease for 12 months so we scheduled an in person viewing with vacation station. We then drove 4 hours to see the. Vacation Station, Inc. Is a Texas Corporation filed on October 2, 1998. The company's filing status is listed as Franchise Tax Involuntarily Ended and its File Number is. Lucky nugget casino app. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Stephen R Wood and is located at 18205 Ridge Rd, Leander, TX 78645.
An Orlando-based telemarketing company and its owner have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made millions of illegal robocalls and calls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry to pitch vacation packages.
Because the calls were so cheap to make – less than a cent each – defendants could profitably call more than 100,000 consumers for every vacation package sold. As a result, Lilly Management and Marketing and its owner, Kevin Lawrence, bombarded consumers with illegal calls, even after both the Better Business Bureau and the FTC contacted them about their abusive conduct.
“We've halted this intrusive and troubling unlawful robocalling campaign and deprived defendants of the full revenues they obtained,” said Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
The FTC’s complaint charges Lilly and Kevin W. Lawrence with violating the TSR by making millions of illegal robocalls to sell packages offered by a number of vacation package companies. Lilly also called consumers whose phone numbers were on the Do Not Call Registry and called consumers who had asked not to be called again, the complaint alleges.
Operating under the name “USA Vacation Station,” the complaint alleges Lilly bought leads – lists of consumers’ telephone numbers – from third parties. It then used automated dialing machines to call those telephone numbers, placing millions of calls that played pre-recorded messages. If a consumer picked up, listened to the pitch, and pressed “one,” they were transferred to a sales agent who tried to sell them a “magical Walt Disney World area holiday special” for which they “had been selected.”
The proposed civil penalty order permanently bans the defendants from robocalling consumers and prohibits the defendants from calling consumers whose phone numbers are on the DNC Registry, assisting others in making such calls, or doing business with anyone making such calls. The settlement also prohibits Lilly and Lawrence from calling consumers who have asked that they not be called again.
The proposed order imposes a $1.2 million civil penalty, of which the defendants will pay $19,000 due to their inability to pay the full amount. If they are later found to have misrepresented their financial condition to the FTC, the full amount of the penalty will become due.
The Commission vote to authorize the staff to refer the complaint to the DOJ and to approve the proposed civil penalty order was 4-0. The DOJ filed the complaint and proposed order on behalf of the Commission in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
NOTE: The Commission authorizes the filing of a complaint when it has “reason to believe” that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. Civil penalty orders have the force of law when approved and signed by the District Court judge.
The Vacation Station Complaints
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Contact Information
MEDIA CONTACT:
Mitchell J. Katz
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2161
STAFF CONTACTS:
Tej Srimushnam and Andrew Hudson
Bureau of Consumer Protection
202-326-2959, 202-326-2213
Mitchell J. Katz
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2161
STAFF CONTACTS:
Tej Srimushnam and Andrew Hudson
Bureau of Consumer Protection
202-326-2959, 202-326-2213
Vacation Station Complaints
We take an extensive family camping vacation every 2 years or so and we try to go different places throughout the US. Chose this campground based upon excellent experience/reviews with sister site in Silver Lake area and they didn't disappoint in the slightest. They have clean plush grassy concrete pad sites, some are open area and some are very woodsy. The area of the campground we stayed was very quiet considering so close to main street due to having tall mature trees all around us. All buildings/facilities were kept meticiously neat/clean (specifically laundry room, play ground, pool area, hot tub, showers). Staff picked up your trash bags daily if left them at the end of your pad by 10AM, delivered wood directly to campsite, and was given impression would deliever anything else..just has to call/ask. Paths/drives in park were perfect for teaching our daughter to ride a bike for 1st time..flat and smooth (not a pothole ANYWHERE). Easily in the top 5 of any camping facility we have ever stayed at in the 20+ yrs. we've been camping. The most impressive aspect was the customer focused staff and specifically the facility manager. Our oldest son had to fly back early for internship. The staff and manager eagerly offered to print out boarding pass, adjusted arrival and departure dates to accomidate, and generally assisted in any way possible to help. While camping there was some miscommunication during booking/check-in which I could have been charged extra days we didn't use (had signed paperwork before catching mistake after vacation was over). Although I didn't speak w/ mgr. directly while there, mgr. still offered refund/certificate dispite not having to do so. This made what could have been a large vacation disappointment into a memorable experience to share with others. Have rarely found such cutomer focused business. Not only will we be back, but telling all who inquire about staying in central west Mighigan to seek out this place specifically.