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Re: Is there an honest Timeshare transfer company....no upfront fees? (by Stephanie M.):
Lance,
We got a call that we won a vacation package and we just had to come pick it up. It was through Great Destinations and they really took my husband for a ride with their "all inclusive" wording (which is NOT true) and that we wouldn't have to pay the maintenance fees til we used it which is also incorrect. Not to mention all the weird things they did in that presentation that I now look back on and think, wow, there are some really cruel ppl in this world. It's all about the commission I'm sure.
So, the company that duped us was Great Destinations. That loan (because my husband mortgaged it 🙄) has been coming out of our acct so that's not in default, and to this date, about $2500.00 had been paid to them. He also put down $870 at the time. We still owe $7311.73 and I just called and they are willing to take $7,262.30 for a payoff amount.
We owe the place we actually own, I guess (which was never shown to us during the presentation, just pictures of castles in England and stuff like that, which you have to also pay to another co to trade in your weekly points to use it to go anywhere else other than the San Clemente Inn which is what we actually got, which we looked up recently and found you can get a room there for the same dang price without being roped into a dang timeshare, ugh!) $1200 I guess and that has to go to the collections dept since someone sent us there although I had in June done what I was told by VRI (management co of San Clemente Inn) which was to send an email to a certain dept letting them know my health is failing and we cannot use a vacation package or vacation at all right now. And was supposed to wait to hear back. In August I was in and out of ER's and had to have a procedure, and my husband had been calling to see where they were with that, so he had been in contact and following up just to be told "nothing yet". We were told to hold off on paying the fees until the deedback would be approved or denied.
So short story long, $7262.30 to satisfy the loan to Great Destinations + $1200 for the maintenance fees to San Clemente Inn (VRI, their management co) and do the deedback they offered or hire a lawyer due to the fraudulent statements that we were told, the fact that I was grieving and on a lot of medication at the time, and that I am physically and mentally not equipped to vacation at all. All my husband's vacay days go to taking me to Dr visits at this point in our lives.
Trying to deal with this myself has magnified my anxiety, stress, and panic attacks and depression which has caused all my physical ailments to also become worse. I just need time to grieve and heal and try to have a simple life and I feel like if it's between my health and sanity or losing money, that my health is more important than losing money at this point.
I appreciate you getting back to my comment very much.
Thank you.