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Re: Timeshare buying scam- watch for "Albert Brown" or "Judy Boulay" (by Lance C.):
pamelar200 wrote:They apparently have a ridiculously high offer for our timeshare in Tahoe.
That's usually a tell-tale sign of a scam. They tell you that someone is willing to pay a lottery-type price for your timeshare (to buy or to rent). It's their ploy to paralyze you with excitement and stop you from thinking rationally.
Let's think rationally for a minute here. If they have someone wanting to pay "a ridiculously high offer for [your] timeshare", why don't they just buy it from you for a few bucks and turn around and flip it to this alleged buyer for such a high amount?
The answer, they don't have a buyer willing to pay that amount. If you still have doubts, ask them either to buy it from you for $1 and then sell it too their so-calledbuyer or tell them that the fee they are charging you will double if they take it out of the proceeds of the sale.