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**Ally** · 08-30-2008, 01:31 PM

Neil, if VoD are looking to cease operations, as Jane told me, why have they spent over a million quid on an advertising campaign for the Antarctica season?

It simply makes no sense to have a damaged ship, know you have a damaged ship but still sell and advertise cruises on it and conveniently forget about the problems that the ship has.

When my agent, Phil, first told me about this problem, I had absolutely no idea what it would become...certainly not the immense almost fraud that seems to be happening.

I had, nor have, no intention of putting VoD out of business as they seem to be doing that perfectly well all by themselves. It just totally devastates me that people who save for their retirement to cruise or those who just save up to go on a special cruise with VoD are being treated with such pure contempt by the company.

Like I said early in this thread, business is built on good reputation, and a good reputation is hard to earn, it takes alot of hard graft...you don't then take advantage of that reputation and screw people left right and center....you just do not do it.

The fact that VoD did not go public with the problem back in March only proves that they have never had any intention of being honest with their guests and that is absolutely disgusting behaviour.

David Yellow should resign from his post and anyone else who were in on the secret should also go. Its them who are bringing the firm down, no-one else.