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Re: Has anyone ever sold their timeshare to Despegar.com travel agency? (by KC):
nancyk490 wrote:I also was contacted by Despegar, and went down the path as far as the contract, which I received today. No typos, etc, but just curious as to how they would handle the extra costs that you all talk about. SO lines 7 and 8 address the Mexican tax and that the escrow company is not liable for that, so one could assume that the buyer is...
There IS no applicable "Mexican tax" in the first place, so that one reference alone reveals and verifies that this is just another scam.
Mexican timeshares involve no ownership of ANYTHING (and there is no "Mexican tax" on timeshares). Mexican timeshares are merely time-limited "right to use" contracts (for a 15-30 year time period). Accordingly, the only "fee" in a RTU contract transfer is whatever "fee" the resort itself charges (sometimes it's nothing at all, sometimes it's a punitively high amount, but in NO case does it EVER involve paying a non-existent "Mexican tax" to some obscure, anonymous third party Internet entity). You are wise to run fast and far away from these Internet-based scammers of unknown identity. If you send them money, you will never hear from them again and any and all money that you send will simply disappear forever.
I'm now wondering if these parasites are actually the same scammers operating with a slightly different name from Dacolar.com, currently identified and under discussion as scammers on Timeshare Users Group. Anyone here know what "Despegar" or "Dacolar" might mean (if anything) when translated from Spanish to English?
P.S. It has been stated in a post above that PROFECO is (quote) "fake". That odd claim is completely inaccurate and untrue. PROFECO is a quasi-governmental agency in Mexico that can (and does) intervene in developer-direct Mexican timeshare transactions if / when said transactions have been improperly or illegally conducted (such as a developer attempting to get a customer to sign a waiver of rescission rights, for example). That being said, PROFECO has absolutely no authority or influence over any unknown, obscure Internet-based "Anonymous Scammer.com" entity running its' game online. PROFECO's authority and "reach" is limited, but PROFECO certainly is NOT "fake", as falsely described above.