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Re: Getting rid of a time share. (by Orville M.):

annab99 wrote:

My husband and I were able to work with a group called The Owners' Advocate to get our timeshare with Bluegreen canceled. They worked with us to dispute their intentional misrepresentation and make it so we never had to pay those crooks again! Seriously, they are legitimate and they work!!

Their website is quite interesting and appears legitimate. However, I'm a little puzzled by the material provided there from "Joanna Bond" of Timeshare Accountability Group (TAG). She does a rather thorough take-down of 3 scammers and one legitimate competitor of The Owners' Advocates. However, the TAG website simply says "coming soon" although it's been registered since last year. The principals in the WHOIS registrations for both sites are hidden behind a privacy shield.

Furthermore, based solely on writing styles, it appears to me that much of the material on The Owners' Advocate *may* have been authored by Joanna Russ of TAG. If - and I stress if - she is writing material for The Owners' Advocater and if she also is an "investigative reporter" for TAG, that raises questions such as why is the TAG site empty, why are both sites' owners hidden by the WHOIS privacy shield, and why her "investigative" work has not been posted on the empty TAG site.

If I sound a bit paranoid and conspiratorial, it's because this whole industry has been built on smoke, mirrors, and illusions spun by players who are not always - in fact, often are not - what they claim to be. I'm ready to give TAG and TOA (the original one) the benefit of the doubt and hope that they are successful in their putative missions; but does anyone have any information on the somewhat less transparent TAG and Joanna Bond? I haven't kept up on developments in this area so any information is welcome.