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Original Message:

Re: Update on Lawsuit against RCI (by R P.):

mike1536 wrote:
charles671 wrote:
now that l better understand the whole complex lawsuit,that it is not concerning the shady sales tactics,but byzantine structure of trying to arrange the exchange that you desire, i.e the manhattan club in nyc, never available. The only way this mess will ever be settled will be, when the appropriate government agencies start issueing the necessary legal papers and federal marshalls start serving them. l'm just getting to be a old grouch. charles671
=================== Do you really want the government to get involved with this?????

I don't have a dog in the RCI lawsuit fight, however I would love to see a federal agency formed to protect consumers from all the lies and scams involved in the timeshare industry from developer sales to upfront fee resale scams to everything in between.

Laws needs to be enacted on a federal scale, not merely a state scale, to protect the consumer.

Take Florida for instance, the state of Florida wouldn't touch timeshares with a ten foot pole since the industry is humongous in that state and brings in millions in revenue, taxes and tourist dollars. The state is not concerned for the consumer, the state of Florida is for the developers and scam artists (specifically upfront fee resale scammers).