Same thing happened to us. We just came back from the "gifting ceremony". We were there from 6:45 till 9 pm. We were paired with a representative for 20 minutes, making small talk, asking us about our vacation history etc. Then followed a 30 minute presentation, followed by buffet dinner. They refused to give us the price of the membership. We ate beforehand and thus chose to have a smoke break instead (the representative was a little nervous as she probably thought we were going to leave LOL).

We came back and were sat at the table with the rep who presented us with a folded sheet, that outlined all the deals. When she unfolded the paper it finally showed the price... - $21000! for 49000 points for 49 years. Holly crap! We refused.

The rep got up and was replaced by one intimidating dude in glasses, hands covered in jewelry and an apparent "coke finger". He dismissed our concerns over the huge expense - again, $21000 at 21% interest! That's $1500 paid on the spot, followed by $580/month for 60 months. Insanity. We refused.

The dude left and was replaced by one of the seminar presenters. She acted very nice and understanding, i.e "boy, do I know how you feel! That's a lot of cash! So I want to offer you a better deal. Only $7999 for 25000 points for 49 years. And I will talk to Damian (the intimidating dude) and get you 0% financing for the first 24 months." Bla-bla-bla. We stepped aside to deliberate. It sounded good but... we were hesitant.

We came back and refused. The lady was replaced by another guy - "from the corporate office" - who offered us $4800 package for 5 years with only 10 weeks of vacation. We refused.

Then ANOTHER guy showed up and slashed that offer in half to $2800. We refused and they swiftly sent us away to the "prize claim room." We picked a ticket from a raffle box. The numbers did not match the top 5 prizes that they advertise. thus we were given a choice of either a week at Cancun or Orlando. We picked Orlando ($14 processing fee). We will use the trip within a year and will let you know whether we had to sit through another seminar in Florida! LOL
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I don't know... no offence but you two sound like a scam to me. You work for the Premium Buyers Club?

An agent called me in the morning and said i have won a prize !!! you don't need to buy anything to get my prize !!!! but when i went to Premium Buyers Club i liked the presentation about furniture and i bought. Its not our waiste of time like previous. Thanks.

So all of you are pretty much correct, it's a scam the company does illegal things and easily tricks people out of THOUSANDS of dollars, I know from personal experience. I hope more people are reading these forums so they know that when they get a call they either, threaten to call the police, call the police or come in with the police. What they are doing isn't right, they've already been sued once, but that clearly wasn't enough because they are still at it and as of my concern they are trying to make the company bigger.

Oh the Premium Buyers Club...I can always expect a call from you!

Yes, they have been calling me since October 2009 to come to their 'headquarters" at 1510 Drew Road (Mississauga) to claim one of the *5* fabulous prizes just waiting for me to pick up! Wow, I somehow even entered into a draw at a "retail location" "months ago" and that all I have to do is leave my wallet at home and come on down to pick up my prizes! WOW!

So, I did lots of research (because obviously they have scammed more than just 1 person) and as luck would have it: THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT TO 1,000'S OF PEOPLE! Please, don't go there. They just want to sell you a timeshare and their HIGH PRESSURE HARD SELL is hard for some people to resist. It's not worth it. I've heard stories of the people that work there being very threatening if you don't purchase one of their 'packages.'

I have already collected at least 5 of their phone numbers and contacted Crime Stoppers and the BBB. Hopefully we can all put a stop to these people once and for all.