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Re: Huge Difference Between Purchase and Resale (by R P.):

Of course developer prices are out of whack, but the developer is there to make a profit minus all his overhead (we live in a capitalist society).

Even on the resale market, the only true value of any timeshare is what the market (buyer) will pay. That's why you may see the same timeshare in the same resort with many different prices. It's value is what the seller has in it or what they want out of it, but the asking price does not reflect what they will get for it.

This is the reason banks and loan institutions will not loan money for timeshares (resorts have their own loan service). There is no true scale to calculate what a timeshare is worth, unlike a house or real estate.

ken1193 wrote:

In other words, in my opinion it's the developer prices that are completely out of whack in the first place --- NOT the more realistic (and more value accurate) figures reflected in the resale market. In your shoes, that may not be at all what you want to hear, but don't shoot the messenger.