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Re: sELLING MY TIMESHARE (by Kenneth K.):

What makes anyone think that Redweek is a consumer magazine? This forum is a part of Redweek.. (hopefully to the owner to make lots of money) that was probably started with the hope to give people advice on how Redweek could work to help people sell or rent a timeshare ( or even an apartment).

They probably don't even know what many of the ads are when google searches them and puts them on the screen.

All we are supposed to do in the manner of trust, is to hope Redweek helps rent or sell by a sell and buyer who are honest. The buyer wants the lowest price or rental....the seller wants as much as possible.

Adding ads to this site simply helps pay for the usage of this BBS. Marty gets ot moderate....between other things, and what ever negatives or positives we might think of companies advertising, it should (in the case of Redweeks BBS) have an influence on how this company is run...which is to help people buy rent & sell the subject product. (Redweek is not a public service)

Now....if a product suggests to help people LEARN about timeshare or another product, and claims to be un biased....maybe then the ads may need to be modifier or even not allowed by the company.

The ads currently in a magazine that says it helps T/S owners has for several issues put in ads that lead to a big post card company. The editor explained that he had gone to a meeting and felt it was OK. But the wording in the ad does not say YOU will pay them $3500 to take the unit from you (which they say is worthless) and resell it on e bay for $1.00 or up. To me. when this magazine sub runs out, I will no longer get it. It can't be trusted (IMO) as a public service....only as a need to sell more space to anyone for the dough!

Can you believe that WCBS-AM (NYC) ( which we also don't listen to anymore) sell ad time to the biggest group of upfront T/S try to seller ( Sellers..thats a laugh) out of Orlando.

What...the group has realtors in it? How can that be, when Florida Law forbids a realtor to take an upfront fee? Well ask them? I'm not the AG.

And who even listens to the quacks that advertise under the guise of a radio program. Give it time....they will be on the sat. service soon, too...pay for radio service for an infomercial disguised as a radio show.

(Radio was once a right to use for the public service....as is broadcast TV.

But Redweek isn't. Just keep thinking...Redweek needs to make a profit on what it says it is supposed to do. The BBS Redweek supplies is an extra.

There are other t/s bbs services that do not allow ads on their BBS pages...spam is immediately deleted, an innocent question on selling my unit with too much info will also get a delete. But...on the other pages of the sites, there will be ads....and some may be similiar to what you see here.