CASE advisory on The Discovery Group Pte Ltd

Finally, Discovery VIII's unscrupulous tactics is slowly coming to CASE's attention. To all those victims who are caught in the same situation, please lodge your complaint with CASE. Every case lodged is a little step closer to bringing them down. Here's CASE's consumer alert for those who are unaware:

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Source: http://www.case.org.sg/consumer_alerts.html

Consumer Alerts

7 June 2012 NEW Consumer Alerts – June 2012: CASE advisory on The Discovery Group Pte Ltd From February 2012 till date, CASE received cases from at least 11 consumers with regards to the contracts they signed with The Discovery Group Pte Ltd. The said 11 consumers have asked CASE to help them cancel their contracts with The Discovery Group Pte Ltd. Considering that the Discovery Group Pte Ltd was incorporated in Singapore only in February 2012, this is an alarming trend that CASE would like to highlight to consumers. According to what CASE understand from the affected consumers, they have existing timeshare contracts with another company and were told about one or more of the following*: There is "corporate restructuring" The Discovery Group Pte Ltd is now the parent company of the company whom they purchased the existing timeshare contract from The Discovery Group Pte Ltd is taking over the existing contract / company whom they purchased the existing timeshare contract from The Discovery Group Pte Ltd can help to waive off balance payment under the existing contract The Discovery Group Pte Ltd can help to terminate the existing contract and recover monies / The Discovery Group Pte Ltd can recover monies under the previous contract AND A new contract has to be signed and fees have to be paid to The Discovery Group Pte Ltd. *Note: The list is not exhaustive. Fees paid range from $200 to $7000. CASE would like to remind consumers to exercise prudence especially when they are dealing with companies that claim to handle their existing timeshare contracts for them for a fee. In addition, we urge consumers to take time to evaluate any company or business which initiated contact and offer attractive solutions to their problems. In particular, consumers should check how long the company or business has been in existence and their track record in settling consumers’ problems in the ways offered or described. So far, CASE has not heard of any successful termination by timeshare-related companies. When in doubt, consumers should not sign any contract or agreement or make any payment. It would be best not to visit the company’s or business’ premises alone. Should consumers require our assistance with their timeshare or timeshare-related membership(s), they can speak to one of our Consumer Relations Officers by either calling our hotline at  6100 0315 between 9 am and 5 pm from Mondays to Fridays and between 9 am and 12 noon on Saturdays or visiting us at our Ghim Moh office between 9 am and 4 pm from Mondays to Saturdays, excluding Public Holidays. Look out for our latest advisories, warnings and alerts here! If you have an issue you want to tell us about, e-mail us: sayit@case.org.sg End

iDiscover International Scam - The same Cours Montreux Scam

iDiscover International appears to be the predecessor of Cours Montreux International. Of late, the same bastards who operate both Cours Montreux and iDiscover International have new tricks up their sleeves again. 

ACRA business profile records reveals iDiscover International and Cours Montreux are NOT related to each other, but Jerry Tan Kim Huat is their sole director. From the eyes of those affected, and based on their modus operandi, they are definitely managed by the same bullies. The latest news is out that iDiscover International has undergone corporate restructuring. And the most shocking part is they are making new T&Cs in the already one-sided iDiscover membership agreement to suit their taste. Pig's arse!

iDiscover International is now FORCING a membership transfer fee of $7,000 wef 1st April 2012 on all the iDiscover victims who signed the agreement with them. What shocking nonsense! Their excuse is that there is a change in business ownership and that THE NEW COMPANY, THE DISCOVERY GROUP PTE LTD shall continue extorting money from the poor victims. 

And if some of the victims think they are obligated to pay this transfer fee, I don't think they are. If you are one of them, don't let their gang mislead you anymore nor be intimidated by their lawyer. Tell your parents, family, aunts, uncles, relatives, friends and everyone else it is their new extortion tactic. If you have been following closely and studying all the evidences lying around them, you can very well tell their lawyers to F*** off. The law of attraction here is, iDiscover = Cours Montreux = Discovery VIII or Discovery 8 = The Discovery Group = (maybe more) = Their lawyers** 

I smell a big rotten rat coming in their new corporate restructure. It seems to me they are trying to clean up any obvious shit from enforcement authorities.

To all the victims out there, DO THE RIGHT THING. You have to start putting trust in CASE. All those people in public forums who have mislead or claim that CASE cannot help, I clearly know why that is happening. If 50% of the victims diligently lodged their complaints (no matter how big or small) with CASE over the decade, these wankas would have already ceased operations. The true fact is, majority of victims are reluctant or lacked knowledge of their consumer rights to come forward. If you are dealing with true law evaders, such reluctance and their preying on the weaker population is to their advantage. And this lets them run loose for the longest time, creating more damage to the entire public. Please, do the right thing. Lodge your complaints today.


**P.s. They appointed a crappy lawyer who cannot write for nuts. So DON'T BE AFRAID.