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No blinders here... (by KC):
I have no "blinders", only my own 25+ years of timeshare ownership, first hand experience and extensive research. During this time period I have also bought and/or sold well over a dozen timeshares on my own ---never paying a nickel to unnecessary outfits like yours. During this same time period, I have also personally met hundreds of other people who have bought and sold timeshares --- NONE of them ever having been sold successfully through ANY "upfront fee" company (although I've met many people who made the huge mistake of unwisely paying one --- but only once).
The challenge issued to "upfront fee" companies to prove ANY successful sale has been publicly posted for many years now on various sites (e.g. Timeshare Users' Group, which has many thousands more members and readers than RedWeek). That challenge has NEVER been met (oops --- there's that pesky word NEVER, rearing its ugly head again...). Perhaps you'll be the first, although I sincerely doubt it. Absent concrete facts and verifiable details, there isn't a single word or any empty claim you can possibly make which would convince me that what I have known as indisputable fact for the past quarter of a century is suddenly incorrect --- just because you come along and say so in a feeble effort to justify your own buisiness model. I respect facts, but not meaningless, self-serving rhetoric and empty, unsubstantiated assertions from a profiteering salesman.
As far as RedWeek weighing in, that's not going to happen. The forums on this site are designed and intended for RedWeek member discussions. Appropriately, RedWeek staff intervenes only in cases of inappropriate attempts at free commercial advertising (which your posts here actually are, by the way, particularly in view of the toll free phone number you have so "conveniently" provided). Moderators may also intervene when there is use of profanity, or demonstration of other inappropriate behavior or language. It's not RedWeek's intent or role to take sides in the exchange of expressed beliefs and viewpoints.
Unfortunately for you, in the age of the Internet there are now many open source avenues (including this one) for people to become informed, educated --- and wary --- BEFORE they ever encounter parasitic, ineffective and self-serving commercial operations like yours. I am proud to say that I voluntarily make every effort to assist in that educational process and I will continue to do so as my time permits. My fervent hope is that the "sucker pool" that you fish in will continually shrink in size with each passing day, until operations like yours finally just disappear completely from the timeshare landscape. You can try to "make your case" and I will certainly continue to make mine. People can decide on their own who they ultimately choose to believe. I don't profit one penny from ANYONE --- you can't pretend for even one moment to have the luxury of claiming any such objectivity...