LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The state Attorney General’s office is not happy with the operator of a chain of private campgrounds that has a site along the Lakeshore.
In a statement, first-term Democrat Dana Nessel announced the issuance a Notice of Intent to Outdoor Adventures for what the office is calling, “serious concerns with the company’s aggressive and misleading sales tactics.” Investigating nearly 30 consumer complaints placed against the Bay City-based entity since 2016, including 10 in this calendar year alone, the AG’s Corporate Oversight Division found that Outdoor Adventures was “engaging in several unfair trade practices,” including confusing consumers about their legal rights and credit terms, not restoring deposits or down payments, “gross discrepancies” between what was said and what was written, and “causing coercion and duress as the result of the time and nature of a sales presentation.”
Nessel warned that her office is intending to file a lawsuit on the matter, and added that Outdoor Adventures, “can avoid legal action by agreeing to voluntary compliance to ensure it addresses all of the concerns outlined by the Attorney General, including a mechanism to ensure appropriate reimbursements are made to all customers affected by the company’s unfair trade practices.”
Representatives of Outdoor Adventures, who operate a campground off of US-31 south of Grand Haven, as well as at seven other Michigan locations and one in Ohio, did not immediately respond to Nessel’s notice or allegations.
