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Re: ibd-marketing (by KC):

davide81 wrote:

I am disappointed to see that the topic is closed. I currently have contracted with IBD-MARKETING to sell my timeshare. I have had it in their hands for the last 8 to 9 months and gotten no positive feedback. When i say feedback, i will at least like for them to get back to me with counter offers from potential buyers like other companies like TIMESHARESONLY provide you. If they were doing their job effectively, being more aggresive in their marketing, maybe all of this will be happening. They gave me this impression when i initially signed up with them early in the year, very convincing. So far i have gotten nothing from them, just the same response, "check back next week". I wish i had read up on them from REDWEEK before paying them upfront, i will probably had not gone through with it.

What i will like is some feedback from anyone out there who has had success selling their timeshare with this company. From my readings so far all the vibe i am getting is negativity. I need something positive from owners who had success to help reassure me that i have not put my money in the wrong hands.

A very frustrated owner.

Unfortunately, I will be bluntly honest and say that no such reassurance exists or is forthcoming at any time. While this upfront fee parasite didn't actually break the law by collecting an "advertising and marketing fee" from you, the fact remains that they will never sell your timeshare either. I have NEVER known an upfront fee company to EVER sell a timeshare at ANY point during the 20 years during which I have owned and studied timeshare. On Timeshare Users Group, a moderator there states openly that in over a decade with THOUSANDS of current and former members and readers' reports, a sale by an upfront fee company has NEVER been confirmed. Never means NEVER.

Unfortunately, that lost "advertising and marketing fee" is now water under the bridge. You now need to "take the bull by the horns" yourself. You have to initiate your own smarter (and much less costly) actions in order to ever sell your timeshare. You need to identify a realistic selling price and advertise it yourself on RedWeek, TUG, Bidshares (free), Craigslist (free), MyResortNetwork, even eBay. For considerably less than $100, you will get exposure to most anyone on the planet looking to buy a timeshare --- and there ain't no one looking at some obscure entity called "IBD Marketing" to do so.

Bemoaning the unfortunate mistake of paying an upfront fee parasite to do nothing useful for you will not get your timeshare sold. I don't mean to be harsh, but you really now need to become proactive in order to ever get this timeshare sold and gone.

I wish you luck and success, but you now need to exert some effort on your own behalf in order to succeed.