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Re: IBD-MARKETING . HAS ANYONE HEARD OF OR DEALT WITH THEM ? (by Toni W.):
Understand that timeshare is not real estate! Timeshare is a luxury item, real estate is a necessity item. Timeshare is not easy to sell because simply you own nothing but a block of time with 51 other people. Real estate companies in general try to stay away from it. People walk into real-estate agency’s everyday to buy or rent a house to live. Timeshare is one week out of the year people use to vacation only. Nobody plans on buying timeshare, did you? Real-estate agencies do not give away a 3/2 night getaway or Broadway show tickets or dinner cruise for two to look at their houses. The resorts have to in order to get people to look at their resort. The resort normally spends $300.00 - $600.00 per prospect to get a tour buy, so the resort had to spend $300.00 - $600.00 to get you to buy. You’ll have to market your unit in a similar fashion. The resorts know selling timeshare is on impulse buy, not by necessity. If it was that simple they would fire every sales person, and build the most sophisticated web site, and they would advertise everywhere to save themselves 30 %, on the commissions that they pay their sales reps, they could build new resorts everyday.
Based on the offers and inquires that we summit to you from your personal agent; you are the one who sells this. We guarantee to market and advertise the property until it sells no matter how long it takes. With the assumption of 30 to 90 days, if it takes longer we will pay for the marketing and advertising until the job is done. Based on your flexibility, we put you in contact with any offer or inquiry that comes within your asking price. The more flexible you are, the quicker you will sell your unit, if you are selling your unit for $14,000 and your agent contacts you with an offer for $13,000 and you decline it, obviously it will take a little longer to find you that “perfect” offer you are looking for. We recommend that you seriously consider accepting offers with in a 10 to 15 % of your firm price that YOU decide on, that way we are allowed to send you more offers. We call it ORO or reasonable offer.