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Re: Has anyone ever sold their timeshare to Despegar.com travel agency?

I have had the same calls and offers. Each time I talk to the gentleman I ask more questions and get pretty good answers. He assures me they take an 8% commission on the sale. I can have payment sent via certified check or bank transfer. I am welcome to open a free bank account if I dont feel comfortable giving them my main bank account info. I dont have to pay anything upfront or during the process. I find several other posts about the same offer but no one has closed a deal yet. He tells me they cant just buy direct from the resort because they are in direct competition so they have to buy private. The travel website is legit, The guy ive talked too seems knowledgeable. He assures me if I feel the deal is a scam throughout the process I can pull out at any time. My major concern is like some of the craigslist deals where they wire you money then at the last second pull the funds and then your out a ton of money because you owe the bank. [Q=stevew446] THey dont do that with this outfit. They say no money will come out of my pocket and they are not buying it to sell. They say they are buying it to put together vacation packages to sell on the internet. They swore they only wanted me to send them a copy of the contract and they would send me a check that I could cash and I would in turn sign a seller agreement and send that with the deed to them when it cleared. It sounded to good to be true and their vacation reviews are mixed, about 70/30 to the bad side. The guy called a few hours ago and I told him I thought it was a scam and to not call any more. I was damn tempted to see how it worked since this one timeshare expires in 2017 anyway. I hope I didnt just look a gift horse in the mouth!!!!!!!!!!!![/Q]