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Re: Re: How do payments work with listings that are not Verified & Protected? (by KC):
naomis88 wrote:...am learning that to look at rentals you have to pay a membership which doesn't make sense to me...I can understand if I end up renting...maybe I'm missing something...
To be clear, you do NOT have to pay anything to look at rentals advertised on RedWeek. However, you DO have to join RedWeek in order to respond to listings and / or to communicate with the listing party. RedWeek membership is less than $20 per year and (in my opinion) it is well worth the cost if you intend to actually conduct any rentals on RedWeek. Requiring a paid membership goes a very long way toward effectively repelling scammers and spammers from RedWeek. As a result, RedWeek is a much safer site than Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. which are "free" but they are also sites popular with scammers and spammers. hiding behind the curtain of anonymity that those “free” sites provide.
It’s entirely your choice on how much risk you are willing to take in conducting an Internet timeshare rental transaction. .