Found this on twitter this morning and figured it would be a good read for everyone and not just residents of Lee County, Florida. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office fraud hotline has been getting numerous phone calls from residents who have been receiving unsolicited phone calls from timeshare resale telemarketing companies who claim to have a buyer for their timeshare property.
As always the complaints say that these telemarketing companies are promising great profits for their property in exchange for an upfront fee ranging between $200-$8,000. 8 Thousand dollars, are you freaking kidding me??? Many timeshare owners have already lost thousands of dollars from timeshare resale companies who have duped them into believing the hype they give over the phone. As usual, they take the money and no services are ever rendered and in many cases the timeshare owner will never see their money again.
Tips To Avoid Timeshare Resale Telemarketing Scams
- If a company is cold calling you out of the blue promising top of the line service, along with the rest of the bullshit they spew out of their mouth’s then hang up the phone.
- If the timeshare telemarketer is promising they have a buyer waiting to purchase your timeshare property, hang up the phone.
- Does the timeshare resale company want any money upfront for their services? They will, so hang up the phone.
- Avoid the high pressure sales tactics. A real business will want you to think about the decision and consult with others, timeshare resale company will want your decision as fast as they can get it. If they are pressuring you with today only sales, “my manager says we can do this one time for $$$$” HANG UP THE PHONE!
The answer is simple, if ANY telemarketer calls you out of no where offering you things that sound to good to be true, chances are they are to good to be a true so ignore the hype the tell you and simply hang up the phone. What are your thoughts on how timeshare telemarketing companies abuse not just the phone but the person on the other end? Do you have a funny story regarding a telephone call you received from a timeshare resale company? Post it here so everyone can get a good laugh!
Selling My Timeshare is about educating the public about how timeshare resales work and what timeshare resale scams to avoid. If you have been scammed by a timeshare resale company, please let us know or search for them and leave your story.
This whole web site is a joke. No contact information what-so-ever. Obviously no timeshare experience what-so-ever. Admin. cannot type. Dis-information site better describes it.
My personal favorite is that the “BANNER ADS” on the top of the site advertise for a RIPOFF TIMESHARE RESALE COMPANY. It’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
The owners of this site are obviously in the Timeshare Resale Ripoff Industry, and use this as a forum to bad mouth their competition.
You cannot contact Admin. directly. Only the site is able to add opinions, and articles. Their content is not verified, merely biased opinion and conjecture. I could go on but you get the picture.
No contact information? This is not a business website and I am not in the timeshare resale business. Go to the home page to find the contact form. If you knew why the banner ads were here it would just piss you off even more.
“Timeshare Resale Ripoff Industry” you say, and what do you call Buy Owner Resort Marketing and Project Transition that you put down as your website? Buy Owner Resort Marketing was shut down, last I checked state investigators do not shut down businesses that are run legit. You left a previous comment claiming to have purchased the services of Project Transition and how happy you were with them. Now you sound like a pissed off employee of the company since you posted under the same damn name.
You can add content to the site, hell you just did when you responded. People also use the contact page as well to send in information, but I see your not tech savy enough to even find it…