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Timeshare Ripoffs (by Barbara M.):
Timeshares have got to be the all time ripoff companies ever. We own a deeded red week in Myrtle Beach, that will be supposedly, passed on to our children. God forbid! I would't want them to have to deal with all we have had to deal with since we bought this. We used it when we could, or could'nt, exchanged it, (when I could finally get the information on how to do this), paid an exchange fee, paid 15% interest, banked and lost most of our weeks. We don't even get information anymore, except for our annual maintenance fee bill, which has doubled! We didn't get the week calendar to show us what week we have available this year.
We were once again caught in a resale scam and lost another $500 trying to sell our timeshare. This was to cover the evaluation of our timeshare, which they never did and we never received. Our credit card company could not recind because I only got an answer machine when I called them back within 3 days to cancel.
I feel sure that you are doing the same thing...
Barbara Martin
CC: Clark Howard, WGST Consumer Reporter, Atlanta, Ga cc: file