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Re: Alert to Timeshare Scam (by Karen G.):

Guees What, there is another company doing the same thing. You can have a meeting in person or have a conference call over the phone, but the bottom line is the same, they want $3000 - $4000 from the seller to take the timeshare off your hands. They make it sound as if they are doing you a big favor, so that you will never have to pay another maintenance fee again. I even had an argument with the lecture guy when I told him that I could close and transfer ownership for $450. He told me that I was wrong. I told him (and the other owner/listeners on the conference call) to get on redweek.com or myresortnetwork.com and check out the closing companies (which I have used when I sold a timeshare a few years ago and just checked out a few weeks ago). He did not like that and told me that he was going to hang up on me, I did so first. Then the big sales person called me and tried to argue the cost ( she also said that it was the going rate) and told me that 35,000 people (many of them OLDER people) were very happy to have paid that fee to let go of their timeshare. I told her that I felt sorry for them, they were robbed. Or, if they had $4,000 to spend (or throw away), they were in much better a financial situation than I was in. I rather use the money to keep the timeshare, not GIVE it to THEM. They are in a win/win situation, they get your timeshare and make thousands. The seller loses his vacation property AND thousands of dollars. And they said that the advertising companies, where you paid hundreds for up front ad costs were ripoffs? This company was "Timeshare Relief". So, beware!!!!! There must be many more..............