GEVC Class Action Lawsuit: Askin Complaint and TCPA Damages

The main GEVC class action lawsuit is Askin v. Global Exchange Vacation Club, a proposed class action filed in July 2017 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleging that Global Exchange Vacation Club and four affiliated defendants violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) through automated telemarketing calls. No class has been certified, and the case docket has shown no publicly reported activity since 2018. Two other TCPA suits against the same cluster of GEVC entities were filed as individual actions and resolved through undisclosed settlements.

The Askin Proposed Class Action

The case is captioned Askin v. Global Exchange Vacation Club et al., Case No. 3:17-cv-01530-JLS-JLB, filed on July 28, 2017. The plaintiff, a San Diego resident, sued five defendants: Global Exchange Vacation Club, Global Exchange Development Corp., Global Vacations Marketing Corp., Resort Vacations Inc., and an individual named Richard Sargent.¹

The complaint set out three TCPA theories:

The defendants used an automatic telephone dialing system to call the plaintiff’s cell phone to sell vacations.
The defendants failed to notify the plaintiff at the start of the call that the conversation was being recorded.
The defendants failed to scrub their telemarketing lists against the National Do Not Call Registry.

As of mid-2026, no public settlement, class certification, or ruling on the merits has been reported in Askin. The last known activity on the ClassAction.org case page was dated May 2018.¹² If you were looking for a certified class, a claims process, or a settlement fund tied to this case, none has been publicly reported.

What TCPA Damages Would Look Like

The TCPA allows statutory damages of $500 per violating call, and willful or knowing violations can be trebled to $1,500 per call.³ Those are per-call figures, not per-plaintiff, which is why TCPA cases against telemarketers are often filed as proposed class actions. Because Askin has not been certified, no classwide damages calculation has been adjudicated.

The Two Related TCPA Suits

Two other TCPA cases against the same group of GEVC entities are documented in federal court records. Both were filed as putative class actions but resolved as individual matters without any class being certified.

Michele Del Valle v. Global Exchange Vacation Club, Case No. 8:16-cv-02149 in the Central District of California, began in Orange County Superior Court and was removed to federal court on December 2, 2016. The defendants were GEVC, GEDC, Global Vacations Marketing Corp., Resort Vacations Inc., and Doe defendants. Judge David O. Carter denied the plaintiff’s motion for class certification and her motion to remand in February 2017. After court-ordered mediation in April 2017, the mediator reported the case “completely settled,” and a joint stipulation to dismiss was filed on April 6, 2017.⁴ The settlement terms were not made public.

Javier Garcia v. Global Exchange Vacation Club et al., Case No. 8:24-cv-02662, also in the Central District of California, was filed on December 9, 2024, against GEVC, GEDC, Resort Vacations Inc., and Doe defendants, alleging the same type of TCPA violations. The parties filed a joint notice of settlement in late February 2025, and Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong dismissed Garcia’s individual claims with prejudice on April 17, 2025.⁵ Those settlement terms were also not disclosed.

Each of the three suits was filed in California federal court, named the same core group of affiliated GEVC entities, and centered on the same telemarketing conduct.

The Broader Complaint Pattern

The TCPA cases sit against a backdrop of consumer complaints about GEVC’s sales practices. The Better Business Bureau listed 144 complaints against the company over the three years ending in mid-2026, with 45 closed in the most recent 12-month period. Of the 144, 15 were marked resolved to the consumer’s satisfaction and 129 were classified as answered, meaning the company responded but the consumer either did not accept the response or did not confirm satisfaction.⁶

Complaints commonly describe recruitment through games like “spin the wheel” at carnivals or sporting events, promises of a free vacation in exchange for a refundable deposit and attendance at a sales presentation, and high-pressure presentations lasting up to three hours.⁶ Consumers report that salespeople described the product as a “vacation club” or “investment” rather than a timeshare, and that mortgage obligations or real estate interests were not disclosed until after contracts were signed. Members also report that advertised “member rates” sometimes run higher than standard travel websites and that availability is limited.⁷

What GEVC Says

In its BBB responses, GEVC generally denies allegations of deceptive practices. The company says standardized disclosures signed at the time of purchase cover cancellation rights and the nature of the timeshare interest. It frames booking difficulties as a lack of familiarity with the platform, points to tutorials it says are available to members, describes its inventory as “dynamic” and subject to availability, and notes that no specific resorts or destinations are guaranteed in the membership agreement.⁶ GEVC holds an A+ rating from the BBB and has been an accredited business since January 2021.⁸

In at least one 2026 complaint response, GEVC acknowledged that while a member’s timeshare had been terminated for non-payment of maintenance fees, the underlying promissory note remained valid and had been assigned to a third-party lender for collections.⁶ That matters for anyone considering whether stopping payment ends their obligations. It may not.

Where Things Stand

No public regulatory enforcement action against GEVC has been reported as of mid-2026. The Askin proposed class action has shown no publicly documented activity since 2018, and no class has been certified in any of the three known TCPA cases. The Del Valle and Garcia matters both ended in undisclosed settlements and dismissals of the named plaintiffs’ individual claims. GEVC continues to operate from Mission Viejo, California, with additional locations in Ontario, California, and in Houston, Dallas, and Irving, Texas.⁶

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