Buyers on TV

Representatives from the newly formed Association for the Affected of Trampolin Hills and from the group Buyers for the Building of Trampolin Hills met the media at the Trampolin Hills site in Campos del Rio yesterday. They explained our problems to a reporter from an English newspaper based in the Torrevieja area and to two reporter teams filming for the main local TV channel and for Spanish national TV. Whereas the national program will focus on golf resorts as a means of attracting tourism, the main theme for the local program will be different cases of swindling, Both programs will appear in about three weeks and both teams promised to make known the new web site of the Association so that affected who have not yet been aware of the Association, and others, can find more information on internet.

At the site we found that the doors to the show homes, which had been closed with bricks after the complaints in December have since then been reopened. The houses are now robbed of all windows, electric switches, bathroom and kitchen fittings. We will send in new complaints to the bankruptcy administrators, asking them to report the robberies, notify the insurance company and have the doors and windows closed again. At the office building the glass in the windows had been broken. We feel that this is a sad and meaningless waste of resources.

We now need that a majority of the buyers join the Association so as to put pressure on all parties to cancel the bankruptcy and have the building started as soon as possible. We have heard that the Judge who sentenced the bankruptcy on behalf of a company which the Trampolin company owed 30 000 € (a sum which even seems to have been paid in the last minute) has since then admitted that the decision was rushed. The bankruptcy seems to have been easily avoidable and is now affecting approximately 1500 buyers. All estimates point to major losses for these buyers if the bankruptcy is maintained. The more responsible approach would have been to help getting the project approved and started and this is what the Association now will ask the authorities to do.