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hello Q, your concern, "Has anyone even heard from a claims administrator, to inquire if You (OR ME) was ever in these situations? If not how could they possibly adjudicate claims, as they've never requested any specifics from individuals except one general questionnaire years ago?????" ...................this is a totally valid question for those of us who were screwed out of our usage/ reservation time at TMC. eric schneiderman, the new york state attorney general (who established the case against eichner, et al) did an incredibly poor job as an attorney by accepting the ridiculous SETTLEMENT against the defendant, eichner and his cohorts at TMC. we are currently left with $6.5 million (eichner's settlement fine) to distribute among 14 to 18 thousand owners. do the math. you leave out a very important aftermath of this poor settlement: the maintenance fees are where they were before the conclusion of schneiderman's case........exorbitantly high and out of whack and, to some owners, out of their financial range. the original promise by eichner's sales personnel was that maintenance fees "would rise VERY SLIGHTLY as time goes on".................a 400% rise in maintenance fees would hardly be considered slight. REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE [Q=lc121] I'm sure many owners who weren't able to book rooms sometimes, caved & booked less desirable nights, occasionally not even able to get use that night, or traded nights to an exchange co., which may or may not have been used later elsewhere by adding additional $$'s, trying not to totally throw them away. etc. etc. None of these are recorded. I can go on with more scenarios, but there one point. All of these scenarios were lost days! And few to none were recorded! If Better Business is the supposed distributor of the AG's 6.5 mill. to owners, there is zero way for BB to distribute the first 50% by the unavailable reservations criteria. Has anyone even heard from a claims administrator, to inquire if You (OR ME) was ever in these situations? If not how could they possibly adjudicate claims, as they've never requested any specifics from individuals except one general questionnaire years ago?????[/Q]