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'Tis the season (Jingle shills, Jingle shills, B.S. all the way...) (by KC):
mike1536 wrote:kc165 wrote:As Phil stated previously many shills post of their "great experiences" with timeshare resale companies.Well I had a timeshare at the Westgate Resort. There was an upfront fee, according to the company this fee was to ensure that the sale would go through. It was $1000. I had a 2bdrm 2bth. foget what i payed for the property. I recieved a check for $24000.Receiving $24,000 for your Westgate TS is simply amazing (and unbelievable). There are many Westgate TS available through eBay for $1.00 (and those do not have any bids). Please tell us where the deed was recorded (town or county, book, number, page, etc) for further verification.
If you indeed received $24,000 on a Westgate TS resale, I pity the poor buyer.
I echo this well stated skepticism. There isn't a Westgate property anywhere on Planet Earth worth ONE FOURTH of $24,000, even in flush economic times (and these are NOT flush economic times). Currently, many Westgate listings don't even get any bids when listed for just $1.00 on eBay, as Mike has already mentioned. Furthermore, I am personally unaware of the existence of any timeshare facility called "Westgate Resort" in the first place. Westgate is a corporate chain entity called Westgate Resorts (David Siegel, President), all of whose properties each have specific individual names (NONE of of those names are "Westgate Resort", just for the record).
I too will certainly look forward to reading (and very easily confirming) the book, page, county and state of recording for this alleged (but likely fabricated and non-existent) "transaction". I don't believe for one moment that any such transaction ever occurred, quite frankly. More bluntly, I believe this is just another shill posting to enable having "Villa Trader" get some free exposure, also getting its name to pop up in a Google search. So, here's MY contribution to also pop up with others in any such Google search on The Villa Trader. :-)
Let's be real here. If Westgate doesn't (...and they don't) sell ANY of their timeshares for anywhere near $24k using "professional" sales weasels working on site at their various facilities for hefty commissions, why on earth would anyone believe that some fool just somehow appeared out of the blue and paid an unknown upfront fee company $24k for a Westgate (aka "Wastegate" to some TUG members) property in the resale market?? I'm sorry, but that scenario is simply not even remotely credible. It's just a fantasy.
I don't believe this tall tale for one moment, but I will humbly stand to be corrected upon review of deed information, as recorded in a specified state and county, with book and page numbers provided for verification. Go ahead --- prove me wrong. Meanwhile, I won't hold my breath waiting to see any such verifying facts for a transaction which I'm quite certain never actually occurred in the first place...