How the timeshare report affects you

“Will we be able to cancel without penalty?”

That’s pretty much all the thousands of SA timeshare “victims” were interested in as an outcome to the year-long National Consumer Commission’s inquiry into the timeshare/holiday points industry.

These are people who were lured to timeshare presentations by the promise of free holidays or gifts, and then seduced by dazzling audio-visual holiday presentations and subjected to dodgy high-pressure sales tactics.

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