WWV Media

Has anyone heard about/used WWV Media to rent RCI bonus weeks (Extra Getaway weeks available to my RCI account)?

Different name, same scam. You cannot rent out your RCI Bonus weeks simply put, because you do not own them. RCI bonus weeks are simply weeks that owners deposited with RCI and RCI wants to rent out. RCI might rent them to you at a very favorable rate.

The scam we see and hear on these boards all the time is that the scam artist claims it can rent "your" RCI bonus weeks out for thousands of dollars. All you have to do is pay this scam company $1000 to "activate" the account (or some other bogus excuse).

Bottom line, they will not rent these out for you and you will have lost whatever money you paid them.

The registered agent for WWV Media (DBA for Worldwide Vacation Marketing) is John Evvard. WWV Media is registered with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, but is incorporated in New Hampshire. A1 Marketing was run by Joanne Evvard in Florida before the state shut them down in 2013.

"On March 6, 2013 the Florida Attorney General filed a lawsuit against A1 Marketing Unlimited, Inc., Joanne Evvard, Joseph Linde and Michael Paramo. Charges filed allege the business is in violation of Florida Statutes 721 and Florida Statutes 501.

Some of the alleged deceptive practices used by the company include, making false representations to consumers promising to sell their timeshares within a short time period; claiming to have buyers waiting with approved financing; offering full refunds for their services, but they never provided the refunds; misrepresentations of the contract terms; and charging consumers credit cards or cashed consumers' checks without obtaining a signed written contract from the consumer."

WWV Media is run by the same people who ran A1 Marketing in Florida. I've posted a link to the press release regarding the case against A1 Marketing below:

http://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsreleases/72733474378CF0A185257B26006678EE

Also, just so there's no room for someone to argue that they're different people and it's a coincidence I have seen statements from people who were paying WWV Media, but the charges showed up as A1 Marketing.