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Re: Need referral for Playa del Carmen attorney (by Jerolyn D.):
victoriaf56 By law, you have five business days in Mexico to cancel the contract after you have signed it. If you decide to cancel the purchase within this period, notify the developer by email and certified mail. Keep the receipt as evidence you cancelled on time. You should receive a prompt refund of all the money you have paid, without any cancelling penalties, within fifteen business days
It's the "by law" part that's always in question...hence my original email. Re the 5 day "legal" refund of a timeshare purchase ... that's all good "in theory", but for this to take place, you have to first BUY the timeshare, take a couple of days to do your research (like someone else suggested), THEN (and here's the catch) you have to TRY and get your money back from the Seller. We bought another TS in Mexico a long time ago and had regrets the next day. I spend the next TWO weeks of my vacation going back and forth at the Profeco's office in two cities (where almost no one spoke any English - we finally found a wonderful Mexican business owner who was gracious enough to hear our plight and he just helped us through the process, out of the kindness of his heart - seriously, he was just wonderful!).
The Profeco's office kept telling me that LEGALLY the seller's had to refund our money, but GETTING them to actually do that, was a miserable experience and ended up with the seller's requiring (and the Profeco's office telling us we needed to comply if we wanted to get our refund...) that we show up AGAIN, in person, at the resort to PERSONALLY request our refund, so they could get one more try to convince us...
The bottom-line was that if we didn't start the "refund" process at the beginning of our TWO week vacation, I shudder to think how hard it would have been to get the refund from the US.