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Re: Anyone have any dealings with Innovative Timeshare Resorts or Innovative Resorts International (by Raymond C.):

I was recently contacted by a company called Innovative Resort Marketing who are based in Hartford, CT. Is this a new manifestation or sister company of the Jericho based Innovative Timeshare Resorts / Innovative Resorts International, or is it just an unfortunate similarity of name? During the initial cold call contact I had been dismissive stating I was not interested in anything that would cost me upfront money as the seller but they assured me that nothing was required upfront and that they have a pool of corporate and international buyers and work purely on results (they take 7% of the sale proceeds). So I saw no harm in giving them the details of one of my weeks and they said they would get back in touch with me with either a status update (still listed, no interest yet) or details of an interested buyer.

I recently received phone notification of the latter and a resale contract (awaiting my signature) via email. This all sounded too good to be true so as part of my exercising due diligence and researching this company before putting my John Hancock to anything I found this thread. What concerns me about this company is that there are too many similarities with other details reported here for ITR and IRI. Similarity of names aside, the buyer is a Mexican corporation and there have been phone issues WRT people not being able to contact them (I only know that because they apologized for it in advance to alleviate any concerns I might have had in case I had been trying to contact them myself).

So far I have not paid anything nor been asked to pay anything, but I suspect that boot is yet to fall, and I would like to be forewarned and forearmed if and when it does. So does anyone know of a connection between these 3 companies? BTW, IRM have a website (http://innovativeresortmarketing.com/content/our-company) and marketing videos on YouTube (here's a link to one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_e13QSxXOk).

Thanks in advance for any information that is posted that will help.