in mid SEPTEMBER i made a reservation for golden beach in venice beach florida thru vrbo and gave them my credit card info. On SEPT. 29 hurricane IAN hit the west coast of florida. i talked to a friend who lives 20 minutes from there and he said "its a mess dont come down here.
The newspaper ran pictures of major damage. I tried to talk to someone at vrbo and all i got were people in the Phillipines, Caribbean,even one time in EGYPT . No one could tell me who to talk to. I finally talked to the owner or manager ?
of the property and he said everything was OK i should come down ?? he offered me a 50% refund if i wasnt coming. I told him that was not sufficient since the hurricane damaged electric service,phone service and many restaurants .
I contacted my Mastercard at barclays bank they…