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Re: sELLING MY TIMESHARE (by Rob K.):
jayjay wrote:I can say that Reweek has helped my out tremendously since I stumbled upon the site a few days ago. I wish I had know about it sooner. Thanks for the Info.jons29 wrote:We are never going to convinence people that upfront fees are a sham. When one of the companies tells you that your TS is worth three or four times it's actual worth and that they have a buyer standing by, a large percentage of "sellers" are going to bite.If "sellers" would simply price their units at their true value, they would most likely sell them. But that's not our nature. If "sellers" (at least those who read Redweek) haven't figured that out by now, there's little hope for them.
It would appear that at least one of the problems is that "sellers" don't understand "upfront" fees. All of the sites try to sell them on the idea that the $1,000 they request is for "marketing/advertising". As a "people" we are simply too gullible!!
That's why it's so important to research, research, research ALL RESALE sites to see what comparable weeks have sold for.
And it's forums like these at Redweek that are trying to educate the public on all scams involving timeshares including upfront fee resale companies. True, there are those people that will not research the subject and will fall for anything told them by a reseller.
It doesn't matter if the upfront fee is called a marketing fee, advertising fee, selling fee or whatever kind of fee ... NEVER PAY AN UPFRONT FEE TO A TIMESHARE COMPANY TO SELL YOUR TIMESHARE. And do not believe what an upfront fee reseller will tell you your timeshare is worth ..... it's all baloney as they will tell you some extravagant price.
The word has gotten out to those who peruse Redweek and other timeshare forums concerning upfront fee resale companies, and if we have helped only 10 people then it's all worth our time and effort.