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We received the same targeted mailer directing us to call to claim free RT airline tickets and a free week-long rental car, in the same manner as others who have posted here.  We called the noted number and reached a "marketing" enterprise in Arizona, "Perfekt Marketing," which pitched us to attend a 90-minute seminar at this travel office.  The opener (Sierra) and the closer (Kay) mentioned several restrictions associated with the plane tickets, and none with the rental car, outside of attending the seminar.

We attended the seminar, where we were given a hard-sell by a team of representatives to buy into a travel program which would turn us into travel agents and make us eligible for reduced-cost travel packages.  We politely endured the presentations and, near the end of the 90 minutes, requested the round-trip tickets and rental car.  The representative then sitting with us reluctantly provided us with two highly-restrictive vouchers, and asked us to sign a waiver which, among other things, disavowed any reliance by us on the representations used by the "marketing" company to get us to participate.  When I explained to the representative that the only reason we attended was to claim the plane tickets and rental car as described to us by the telemarketers, the representative was miffed.  He saw nothing wrong with the travel agency attempting to get around the promises made to us on the phone.  We refused to sign the waiver and left.

I read through the voucher certificates given to us.  There were MANY restrictions on claiming both the plane tickets and the rental car which the telemarketers had not told us about, which effectively made the certificates useless to us.  I researched the issuer of the rental car certificate, VIP Travel in Florida.  Apparently, it has a history of refusing to redeem the certificates if all of the previously-undisclosed requirements, right down to the need to conduct correspondence by certified mail within a very short turnaround time, are not scrupulously followed.  Separate "deposits" for each of the plane tickets and the rental car were also required.  You can see where this is going....

I called the telemarketers again.  Kay assured me, for example, that she had not been instructed to include a disclosure of the $75 advance deposit to claim the rental car in her pitch to us prior to the time of our initial call, and seemed geuninely apologetic about the additional, previously-undisclosed restrictions imposed by VIP Travel.  She seemed stunned when I told her that the travel office tried to get us to disavow the content of her previous sales call with us.  She said she would report these discrepancies to her manager.

The manager (Tom) called me two days later.  He tried to rationalize the various discrepancies and saw nothing wrong with the travel office's attempt to get us to disavow the representations made to us by his telemarketing firm.  The owner of the telemarketing firm was equally adamant that both his business and the travel office had not participated in a deception or otherwise done anything wrong.  One of the things he made sure to mention was that, because they were in Arizona, they could freely tape our calls without authorization from the remote party.  Is this the kind of operation you want to do business with?

To this moment, I cannot understand why ALL of the restrictions could not have been read to all of us unsuspectingly pitched -- except, of course, that, if they had, not many would participate in their promotion.

Times are tough enough without having to worry about businesses which talk a good game but do not deliver as promised.  Don't part with your hard-earned money or free time:  wherever you might live, stay away from Perfekt Marketing in Arizona, Pulaski/Hallmark Travel in California, and VIP Travel in Florida.