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WARNING - PAID $6000 to relieve themselves of 2 unwanted timeshare weeks (by R P.):
I was reading below on another timeshare site about one of those "I'll relieve you of your unwanted timeshare for $3500" scam companies. These companies are the same company listed under different alias names, so BEWARE:
A couple "bought into" this sceme. They paid $6,000 to relieve themselves of two timeshare weeks ... one was a prime week at a great resort that could easily have been sold for about $5,000.
the other was an off season week at a mediocre resort that these 'scam' guys apparently never disposed of. The resort told the supposedly previous owners that it was still listed in their names and that the 2006 maintenance fees, which were due 6 months after the "transfer" took place, had not been paid. When they tried to contact the company that supposedly "relieved them of the burden," the company had gone out of business. The Better Business Bureau told them that they have numerous similar complaints, and that there are warrants for their arrest.
The couple was also told by their resort that there will be costs involved in obtaining a replacement of the deed they signed over, and no longer possess. They will first have to file a police report in the city where the timeshare is located, which is thousands of miles from their home, and that they will have to obtain a title report to be sure that someone hasn't already registered the ts in another name. The only consession that the resort made was to cancel the penalty for the late payment of the maint. fees.