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Re: Resort Condos Plus - anyone? (by Michele M.):

So I got a call from my parents while I was out of town stating they'd sold their timeshare for $12000. I was skeptical that anyone would even pay that right now, but was happy for them...until I started asking questions. I asked them if they paid anything up front, and they said yes, we had to pay the $2000 commission up front. Oh man, I knew it was a scam right then. So here's how they got taken... Michael Dean called them saying he was a mortgage broker that dealt with Resort Condos Plus.com. He had a prequalified buyer for them and they wanted to pay the $12k they were asking from some other listing they'd put in. (This would be their 4th). My parents so wanted to believe him, that they ignored all the red flags. To really make this sound good, Michael had the interested party "Rick and Gina Thompson" out of South Lake Tahoe call my parents and ask a few questions. My dad got their phone number and now of course we only get an answering machine. It seems so real, but I read someone else had this Michael Dean do the same thing, have the buyers call and ask questions. The fact that they tell you to say "no" to the question "were you promised there was a buyer" on the recorded phone conversation gets them off the hook when you try to say they promised a buyer. They have you on a recorded message that they haven't promised you anything. This is just an advertising group that will list your timeshare for $2000. If you read the fine print at the bottom of the contract, it states that they are just an advertising agency and not a sales company. It also says they have sold zero (0) timeshares. I called the Texas Atty General Consumer affairs office, and they said there are 34 claims filed in the past 2 years. They are also called Global Resort Condos as well. My parent's contract had a mailing address in Kansas, but the sales guy is in Texas.

Has anyone ever gotten a sale out of these people? Has anyone ever gotten their money back through the company? I submitted within 7 days a cancellation via email, and now sending via registered mail a formal written cancellation. I'm pretty sure they won't send the money back, so my next step is to have my parents dispute through their Visa, and then I'm filing with the Texas Atty General. It is so frustrating that they prey on elderly people, and others that can't afford this. How do they sleep at night?

Thanks to you all for posting your experiences. It's been helpful, and I only wish my parents had told be about RCP BEFORE they sent their credit card info in, because I found all of your posts within about 2 minutes of checking.