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Better Business Lodging (by Ben A.):

Tracey, thank you for your research and Ill be happy to answer your questions. I hope you will answer mine as well. Do you speak from a personal experience you had in trying to rent or sell your timeshare? Which timeshare do you or did you own and have you done anything to rent or sell it on your own or with a company you paid? What were your results like? I did similar research on my end. There is over 35 David Taylor's in Orlando alone not to mention across the country. It seems to be a very common name. In doing further research I also found that the BBB had that info incorrect as he is not the principal. Besides, Im not a big fan of the BBB. I have made decisions in the past based on their good ratings on companies that didn't prove to be good ones. After reading a few articles about their practices I don't really gage my decisions an anything the BBB says especially since they are a for profit private not gov't organization and they charge for membership. To answer your question - The event was The Home and Garden show. I did look into this as well and don't think they had a booth but from what I understand they did have a large presence at the show each day. I agree with you that nobody would want to share a king size bed. That is not how it was presented to us when we bought the timeshare and they actually sold us on the concept of using one side of our 2 bedroom and renting the other or even renting out the living room to a friend on vacation with us since the pull out sleeper had its own private area. I know if I could get a resort for the same price or even similar to what I would pay a hotel it would be smarter. Hotels in the Orlando area, decent hotels anyway have gone up in price so the concept doesn't seem so far fetched.

tracey75 wrote:

Looking at the BBB doesn't tell much other than this LLC was started in May 2015 and the contact info is: Contact Information Principal: Mr. David Taylor (Director)

Doing a search on David Taylor-timeshare comes up with several timeshare scams connected with Mr. Taylor. So I would imagine the 25 years of combined TS experience is made up of at least 22 years of TS scams. I know some businesses like this say they advertise at conventions but I never really thought they did. Could you give me the name and the date and location of the convention you attended so I can try to verify if this business was actually a registered participant there.

I would also like to know what you own and why you think a business would want to rent out your unit for a convention. I know that these companies say that is what they do but I have never heard of a company actually renting timeshares for attendees. They rent hotels. No one wants to have to share a king bed with a colleague. No one wants to cook when they are in town to do business and have fun. No one wants to rent a full week when conventions are typically 3 days or less.