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Re: How can I rent a timeshare? (by Mary D.):
jayjay wrote:======== Folks looking for a place to rent contact us via Redweek. They don't have our personal e-mail unless we give it to them. This would be true, would it not, whether they contacted us with or without paying a fee. MDadahiscout wrote:I rather imagine a lot of people searching for a vacation week on Redweek are "turned off''' when they learn they must pay for the right to contact the owner who is trying to rent a unit as well as paying the rental price. Many will come to a screeching hault when asked for a credit card number. We who try to rent out weeks on the site might do well to pay a little more to advertise and have the customers contact us at no cost to them. Yes, I know that a fee discourages the less than serious lookers, but it stops some serious one too. MDI respectfully disagree. I was reading on Tug just yesterday about a person who placed an ad on that site and then getting all kinds of spam in their email. Ad email addresses are listed on all Tug ads for anyone to phish .... you don't have to be a member of Tug to phish an ad email addresses.
Here at Redweek, I have not seen anyone who has placed an ad here that has been bombarded with spam because you have to be a member here to access personal information and email addresses. This protects the members of Redweek that place ads here.
The people that access Redweek are serious about rentals and sales, they are not merely phishing for personal information. I personally would be glad to pay the small Redweek fee to keep my personal information away from scammers and spammers.