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Re: How can I rent a timeshare? (by Mary D.):

mike1536 wrote:
phill12 wrote:
mike1536 wrote:
I recently rented my unit and used PayPal for payment, then followed up by sending the confirmation. This insures the money cleared. However, this DOES NOT insure the "tenant" that the owner will come through with the confirmation. The Escrow service protects the tenant in that end of the transaction. I offer the escrow service to potential tenants and let them make the final decision. If they refuse the service, I put it in the rental agreement.
Mike, I might be wrong but thought to use escrow service for rentals you needed to be sixty days out from date of use!
It is good you liked working with Pay-Pal but I would never deal with them ! We signed up on a Friday morning trying to buy my daughter a collector set of Bobble Heads back in 2002. Nothing but problems and that same weekend we closed the acct without ever using it! The seller was great and even sent the Bobble Heads before he had my check so my daughter would have them!
We have had scam artist e-mailing us for last five years about our acct.
For the fifth time I talk to Pay-pal and they went back and showed our closed acct and agreed they had problems that weekend but our acct shows closed within 24 hours of opening it.
The agent admitted that they have major problems with scam artist nailing Pay-Pal customers. Said there are three new ones starting up right now!
I was promised no one could ever use our closed acct even though I question why they would keep this acct that was never used in their files.
Pay-Pal might be fairly safe but I would never use and if that is only way I could make a deal then forget it! PHIL
---------- Phil, Thanks for the input, things went smoothly, but I'll keep an eye open for potential scammers. I'm really not familiar with the redweek escrow service. Is that one you recommend or is there another one that you use.

I have an e-mail address dedicated to PayPal only, so anything that pops up on my other e-mail account claiming to be PayPal is bogus. Also, scammers won't address you by name like the real PayPal does. They just say "Dear customer" or something like that.

Isn't it sad that there are so many crooks on the internet? I "win" several lotteries a week and click them off. If I really won something.......well, easy come, easy go!