Original Message:
Anyone have any dealings with Innovative Timeshare Resorts or Innovative Resorts International (by James M.):
DON'T DO IT. I have been scammed by time share sales companies twice before and feel I was ready for anything but like an idiot fell for their very well done sales pitch. Tell me if this sounds familiar (which is why I was sold...again). "New York has laws that protect the consumer" "We have a buyer in place that we got by combing the area outside your time share offering a financing deal for the buyers that they could not qualify for inside (this is the one that sold me)" "You will receive 100% of the cost required back paid by the buyers for us to do a title search" etc... Basically, this company had rehearsed it's pitch so well that I thought I would take a chance considering they allowed me to use my credit card for the transaction as opposed to paying by money order or cashiers check. After the inevitable waiting period (90 days) to allow time for the title search and "final" credit approval for the buyers the time period to demand a credit from my credit card company had passed.
Here's what I did and it worked out well for me. I demanded copies of the title search and blacked out documentation that they did in fact do all the things they said they did with the proposed buyers. At this point I entered the endless stall tactics, no return calls, and a requirement to contact another department that I could never get through to.
I now had an option to go with by having my credit card company research a products not rendered complaint. They tried the same thing and after Innovative would not comply to their requests for the same I got a 100% refund for my purchase. Yeah!!!
I also agree with another poster that this is the same company that was banned in Florida for their practices. Of course there is no way to prove this but basically as has been said, "if they charge an up-front fee it is probably not legit".
So, if sounds too good to be true then... well you know the rest.