Original Message:
Re: a very expensive listing company (by William S.):
The Timeshare industry survives on advertising & marketing and they obviously stack the deck in their favor, because that is in their self interest.
Nevertheless, a spade remains a spade; it's like a pack of wolves looking after a flock of sheep. It is easy to do dishonest things without doing anything illegal. It’s also easy to make excuses for them, like they're a very expensive listing company. That still does not make what they do right or decent, except in an alternate universe, where nothing makes any real sense anyway.
The BBB, in spite of all of their imperfections, is about the only truly impartial arbitrator of this buffoonery. For every complaint that they receive, hundreds go unreported.
It’s a hard sell for me to pay a large upfront fee to a “shady” company before it actually does anything . . . and even if they did anything, their upfront costs are negligible. Remember what our parents told us, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”