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Passengers who booked trips have been told refunds will be issued in monthly installments

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Life at Sea Cruises' first three-year sailing was announced in March and promised passengers willing to fork out at least $29,999 per year

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[–] chicory@midwest.social 110 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Refund paid in monthly installments seems like a huge red flag too…yikes. Hopefully these passengers can come out of this mostly okay at least.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago

Yeah that was my first thought. I'm willing to bet the company declares bankruptcy soon.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago

Seems like fraud to announce that close to leaving, the monthly payments on top makes it worse.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Was wondering if I floated a bad thousand dollar check if my restitution would be allowed in monthly installments.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

(with a few extra steps) yes

Wage garnishment, repayment plans, etc. The difference is for you it typically requires litigation before you're "allowed" to. Technically it's probably the same for them if someone challenged it, but they have the benefit of litigation costing less than all the paid lump sums, where your proverbial thousand-dollar check would not.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I bet it would cost more than a thousand, too.