EccEu and Timeshare Consumer Association on Radio 4 You and Yours, discussing the great 2020 "Maintenance Heist".

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Radio 4 report on the great "Maintenance Heist" of 2020. With Timeshare Consumer Association and ECC

ECC and Timeshare Consumer Association on the Radio 4 "You and Yours" consumer affairs program, discussing the great 2020 Maintenance Heist. Pandemic profiteering by the world´s timeshare companies.

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