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Re: sELLING MY TIMESHARE (by KC):
Re: >> The message you got from them [My Resort Network] probably had nothing to do with your RedWeek posting. I got a note from them last week too! MD<< ===============================================
Many people (among whom I include myself) who have current TUG ads (where email addresses are openly identified) have received recent unsolicited messages from MRN. I too believe that your surprise contact from MRN has nothing whatsoever to do with RedWeek. I'm willing to bet that you also have a TUG ad of some kind "up" and that is almost certainly where your email address was obtained and then used. Just one business using "open source" info from a "competitor" site to look for more business for themselves --- nothing nefarious.
P.S. If TUG didn't openly publicize email addresses in their ads (addresses which are also routinely "harvested" for a lot of "scam spam" which is completed unrelated to timeshare), then there would be a lot less volume of unsolicited material received as a result of posting TUG ads. However, TUG seems disinterested in a solution, preferring to just repeatedly state "we warn you that in posting an ad that your email address will be exposed for all the world to see and use". I like TUG and I certainly respect the high level of knowledge and experience of members there, but that's still a weak and unconvincing answer from the site owners in regard to privacy protection. Even Craigslist (which is absolutely free) has decent privacy protection measures in place --- RedWeek and MRN do as well. TUG will be TUG...