Praetorian Legal and the Monster Scam

Praetorian Legal where it all began

About 10 years ago we went on a free holiday to Tenerife and we got asked to attend a 2 hour talk......in return for the free holiday. We were taken to a room with about 5 other couples and one guy sat opposite us.

Anyway, 1 and 1/2 hours in he still even hadn’t started to make his sales pitch, instead he was showing us news clippings and stuff about his timeshare company !!


So I looked at my watch and told him he had half an hour left so he better get started and that I'm not buying anything we only came for the free holiday.

Five and a half hours later !!!!!!!!

Tenerife Timeshare and Praetorian Legal 

Anyway, the convincing sales patter meant we ended up buying the timeshare. We  bought into to a two bedroom apartment in Tenerife for one fixed-date week in April every year. The resort is lovely and all the staff were friendly and helpful, it was spotlesly clean. Even the loos by the pool side were cleaned regularly throughout the day.

We enjoyed loads of holidays in the resort, even brought an extra week and upgraded to a larger apartment.The trouble started when the timeshare company, was taken over by a larger firm and fees started rising.

When we first brought the timeshare, we paid around £200 a year. This rose to £400 after we'd upgraded and took a second week. But after the new company took over it doubled the maintenance fees, and with the weakened pound we now pay nearly £1000.....

We decided we no longer needed a big apartment and couldn’t afford to keep spend so much a year, so I went to the timeshare company to discuss selling it.

Praetorian Legal and upfront fees 

They gave me a list of companies that could sell it on my behalf but they all asked for upfront fees.

We was so desperate that we decided to use a company that they’d recommended called Monster. They promised that if we brought something called Monster credits from them they’d get rid of it for us. We didn’t want the credits but the maintenance fees was so high that we had no choice. We paid £8,000 to Monster and took another loan to fund it.

None of my timeshare and Monster credits were sold, when i complained, Monster took me to Bournmouth to introduce me to a company called Praetorian Legal. Thats when my true nightmare began......