“Special Notice”
to
Former Members of Thousand Adventures (TAI)
December 15, 2003 - NO ONE, not Travel America, not All Seasons,
nor any one else has the right to demand money from you because
of your TAI contract! There. We’ve said it.
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None of these organizations have the ability or the intention
to honor all of the provisions of your TAI contract.
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No authority, State, Federal, etc., has given them the
authority to modify the provisions of your contract without
your permission. [NOTE: except for the defunct “Resale” provision
of the “Thousand Adventures of Ohio”.]
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You are not required to pay dues, maintenance fees, contract
payments, etc. based solely on the existence of your
defunct TAI contract.
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If you continue to use Travel America (etc.) camping
facilities, however, you must pay the fees and obey the
rules associated with that usage. (NOTE: Not Travel America,
All Seasons, nor any one else has ever acquired the right
to collect contract payments on any of the defunct TAI
contracts. Several lawsuits have been won and several
more are pending to recover money extracted from former
TAI members in this way.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE USING TRAVEL AMERICA FACILITIES:
You have a right to demand a written statement of all of your
rights and their obligations (e.g. a written agreement with “Travel
America”). If they fail to provide such a statement
in a reasonable time – you would probably be foolish
to continue to send them money or use their facilities.
So there it is in a nutshell.
Now what if they still try to extract money from you that you
don’t owe them?
ANY local attorney should be able to make them
leave you alone and stop their harassment. A GOOD attorney might
sue them to recover any money you have already paid and for punitive
damages.
Continue to file your complaints with your own Attorney General
and/or with NAM. If we get your complaint we will do what we
can to get it to the appropriate authorities and end the abusive
and coercive practices of these and other companies.
Dan Hopper,
NAM |