Holiday Property Services

[willowman]

My brother (genuinely not me) is investing in Holiday Property Services. Does anyone have information on this company? Sounds like a new form of timeshare company, and I'd like some honest info on them.

[buildersmate]

Are you talking about this organisation?
http://www.hpb.co.uk/
There is no organisation (that I can find) called simply Holiday Property Services

[dzug]

If it is Holiday Property <Bond> then it is a well established company very much at the respectable and honest end of timeshare. If only they were all like that there would be none of the scandals you read about.

[Hard@it]

spot on dzug, and we are members.

Cheers Hard@it

[willowman]

Thanks for your answers. I'm sure it's not HPB, I looked at that some time ago. Brother said originally (all done over the phone) that it was something to do with Petchey Organisation and the holidays were organised by a company called Infiniti. Looked these up and Pechey appers on a website called Crimeshare. Trouble is my brother is a dopey burger and when he gets a letter saying "You have won a competition (that you never entered)" he believes them.
His wife has just had a letter from USA saying she is in the semifinal of a poetry competition (she had sent off a poem)and the poem will be printed in a book. To have her details printed in the book she must pay x amount.
They fall for all the scams.

[buildersmate]

Jack Petchey's organisation is a well-established scamming operation - it is definitely timeshare - I'm 100% sure.
Crimeshare is also a very good but anonymous exposer of these scammers. I guess you found it? - here:
http://www.crimeshare.cc/74.html

[Hard@it]

willowman - honestly if he really is considering investing in holidays, he could not do better than HPB. The initial investment does not purchase any property but is a bond on which if you leave you may or may not make a profit. The main thing is it is the basis of a point system, and this allows you and your family to use properties in uk and Europe,also some further afield like Madeira etc.
I think buildersmate has hit it on the head with the scam.
Cheers Hard@it