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Re: Getting rid of your timeshare (by R P.):

nancye31 wrote:

I've recently been successful in finding homes for my 3 Ft. Myers Beach timeshares so thought I'd tell how this happened. I've had them listed for free in multiple places, Craigslist, Red Week, TUG with no interest. When I was there (FMB) in February, I put an ad in the local beach paper thinking that maybe someone who was staying at these resorts might be interested. I got multiple calls on them and about half of them were people who wanted to know if the ad worked so they could try giving theirs away! One of the people that called me said she was going to tell her friend up north and that friend ended up taking one and even typed up the QCD. This lady then told her son who took the second one and then the original lady told her son-i-l and he's looking into the last one. I guess there's something about "free" that attracts people. I plan to take the original lady to dinner the next time I'm down there as she has done one heck of a job for me and she's a total stranger, or was then.

What an excellent idea .... kudos to you .... if I was looking for a timeshare to buy then now would certainly be the time with all the free timeshares (or almost free) out there (well, nothing is free as the buyer will always be responsible for maintenance fees), but if I was looking for a specific resort in a specific location for a specific timeframe I would certainly be looking in all the timeshare marketplaces as well as local newspapers. This is a fantastic timeshare's buyer's market .... many of the free timeshares are in ultra nice resorts.