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received a call from a company called The Holiday Specialist saying that they were working for teletext holidays and that I was entitled to a "free" holiday as I had previously booked holidays through teletext. They could give me all the information about this holiday. End result is I paid them  £400 for this free holiday plus a loyalty card which was going to save me hundreds of £s. When I received the initial correspondence from them it was to sign and return the receipt for my cash.
The name on this receipt is LIFETIME MARKETING SOLUTIONS. I  returned the signed paperwork and received paperwork from a company called GOLDEN TRAVEL CLUB and as far as I can make out are selling timeshare .The smallprint in the T@C says that this freebie is only for people between the age of 25 and 65 earning £15,000 a year. As I am 68 and my wife is 71 I think I have been ripped off. I,ll have to see what my credit card company has to say.
wwwthe holiday-specialist.com    Tel08701 992 176
Golden travel club    Tel (00 34)922 712 664/ (00 34)922 713 464

i typed the addr in to google and got to this site my dealings are with the holiday specialist.com i was a little woried to start so i phoned nationwide c.c. was told to recontact them .i then managed to get through to 08701922176 they could save me £50 + on my flights on trying to pay was advised my card was not accepted have since been advised by nationwide they do not deal with lifetime marketing.hope this helps

i would not book any flights with LMS first one i booked was for Bristol book car parking night stay. week before holiday no tickets phoned said they had been sent but would send me them by email okay till i found flight was easy jet not thomson and going from Cardiff lost money from car park and tickets  have never come.they change times of another flight returning 2-30in morning still not had tickets was to old for vouchers

VERY DODGY - It's a Spanish based scam operation:

http://whois.domaintools.com/lifetimemarketingsolutions.co.uk


Domain name:
       www.lifetimemarketingsolutions.co.uk

   Registrant:
       GEORGINA DORAN

   Trading as:
       LIFETIME MARKETING SOLUTIONS

   Registrant type:
       UK Individual

   Registrant's address:
       C/ RUPERTO CHAPI 9 EDF COLISEO BLOQUE 1 LOCAL 1 BIS 1
       ALFAZ DEL PI
       ALICANTE
       03581
       Spain

   Registrar:
       Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = LIVEDOMAINS]
       URL: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk

   Relevant dates:
       Registered on: 18-May-2010
       Renewal date:  18-May-2012
       Last updated:  08-Jun-2011

http://whois.domaintools.com/theholiday-specialist.com

Registrant:
The holiday specialist
Kalle
Ruperto
Chapi 9
Edisicio, Colissao 03581
ES

Domain name: WWW.THEHOLIDAY-SPECIALIST.COM

Administrative Contact:
   Doran, Georgina  
   Kalle
   Ruperto
   Chapi 9
   Edisicio, Colissao 03581
   ES
   +44.034966868576
Technical Contact:
   Master, Host  
   Lister Pavilion
   Kelvin Campus
   West of Scotland Science Park
   Glasgow, Scotland  G20 0SP
   GB
   +44.3707555066    Fax: +44.1419316785

LMS got my name from Club La Costa. All these scam artist time share holiday companies in Spain are related. God knows why the BBC's Jennie Bond supports Club La Costa. She's blackened her reputation for ever as well as that of the BBC's Watchdog programme:
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2010 ... nnie-bonds.html

Not much as far as company details go:
http://bizzy.co.uk/es/5754974/lifetime-marketing-solutions-sl
http://mintportal.bvdep.com/MintPortal-FJDKCJFIEIEIFIEIJIIIII.urk
http://guiaempresas.universia.es/e-2516135/li ... utions-sl..html
http://www.boe.es/borme/dias/2010/02/23/pdfs/BORME-A-2010-36-03.pdf

They are still at it, taking people for a ride.  I bought the travel card, booked my holiday through them, just for them to inform me 2 days befoe my departure that they never booked my tickets.

When I bought the tickets and the card, they ensured me that they are ATOL and ABTA registered,  Now that  I have actually asked for the numbers of their registration, they informed me that they are not actually registered, but the airlines are.  

LMS also feel untouchable as they are in SPAIN.   As said to me by them, they are in Spain, so they are safe, non of the regulations apply to them.

That might be true, but what you sow you will reap.   And they are sowing plenty.

LMS now use the name The Holiday Specalist and telephone number 08701922176 proport to be a UK based Travel Agent selling holidays and cruises at "Trade Prices" what they are actually selling is club loyalty card and payments are made to LMS Benidorm ES. Telephone agent states no connection to Timeshare or any other like companies. Even direct you to a web site www.theholiday-specalist.com which looks very good. This is a scam be careful.

Hi Mike,
Like many others, I have benn scammed by The Holiday Specialist or Lifetime Marketing Solutions or whicheven name they use. You indicate that you have been able to get your money back. Can you indicate what arguement your Bank.or Credit Card supplier used to achieve this? I want my bank to use the same.
Regards
Terry

we made the mistake of booking with them even though we had our suspisions, its all a scam. 2 days prior to flight departure they called to say there were no flights for us and we had booked with them 9months prior. we still have not had any money back. My advise is to stay well clear.

I was lucky I used my visa to pay for my flights. Visa payed me in full

Hi, I have bought the same loyalty card. Could you please tell me what was said to your credit card company and on what grounds did they recover your money.
Many thanks

Hi Terry,

I too have been scammed with this loyalty card. I was just wondering if you have had any success in getting a refund from your card company.

Thanks

Steve

do not give them anything its a rip off, i got caught , htey never phone back and its hard to contact them?? PLEASE  BE AWARE

I have been contacted by The Holiday Secialist and was suspected some was not right, because if it sounds too good to be true it usually  is. Having found this page, I am VERY GLAD not to have handed any money to them. DO NOT TRUST THEM OR HAVE ANY DEALINGS WITH THEM.

I placed a comment on here the other day with regards  to this company and the other associated companies, Ive just come on to check if anyone had replied to me and the post has been REMOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can anyone please tell me why or who has removed my post. I am more than happy to repost my original post if needs be. I assume it is an employee or the named person herself, if this is correct how is that poosible?.

Can any of this slander be taken seriously when no one is leaving their real names ..... REALLY !!

All of the complaints looks exactly the same with names and locations changed ... REALLY !!!

It looks to me like we have some ex-employees and haters out there

Wilmot, I also read your post and to be honest it did sound like you have some sort of personal hate campaign for the person.

Maybe this was the reason.

For sure it was the site as only the administrator can delete posts.

Just had a phone call from an international number saying they were the holiday specialists. Thought their offer of a loyalty card for 30% discount and a free luxury 5* holiday for £299 seemed too good to be true so I googled them and came across this and the thread on trip advisor. Luckily I had told them to phone me back in an hour which they just did. After bombarding them with the info I found on the web and asking for an ABTA and ATOL registration number from them, they still weren't giving up. Telling me that if I had googled Thomas cook or Thomson online, I would find bad reviews about them too. In the end after telling them to delete my number from their system, I hung up. Pushy pushy pushy. Oh and they couldn't produce ABTA or ATOL numbers surprise surprise.