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| - "I'm calling from Southwest Airlines..." said the woman who first spoke to me on the phone from Fiore, and she continued that she was inviting me to the "grand open house celebration of our US airline reservation center". I have these things in quotes because I was lucky enough to have my automatic call recorder turned on, so I have reviewed this conversation since. These are the exact words. This was only the start of the lies, as they told me to lie about my income, told me the gift of round-trip airline tickets they promise were for "absolutely no cost". This is the same generic certificate I got from a timeshare presentation a few years ago which requires sending them $100 on faith, which after a year they still kept denying me every date I requested until they finally offered me a fraction of my reward, knowing I was frustrated. They also delivered on a $100 dining card... one of the ones from restaurant.com that they sell for $40 or less and you have to spend $200 to use! What a joke!
Instead of getting to exactly how the package worked, the salesman kept talking about "pussy" (suggesting that having this package would help me get it) and took an hour to even start discussing the package at all. Despite talking to several people there trying to get details of the plan (such as seeing exact numbers for how points translate at certain resorts), they kept trying to sell me on ideas without details. Total scam operation from the details on the phone, the gift you get for attending, and the way they try to sell based on emotion rather than facts. The only positive thing I can say is that the staff were all very friendly and gave me free chips and water (the alcoholic drink, however, was not).
Some of the positive reviews sound strangely irrelevant to what Fiore Travel actually does, making it sound as if they are a standard travel agency rather than timeshare (though they hate that word there) sales.
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