What about Redweek.com

The common theme here is "DO NOT PAY ANY UPFRONT FEES". Some of us has paid redweek.com to post our timeshares for rental or resale. Does anyone know if any timeshares have actually been sold? And no offense but Jayjay who are you? You seem to be totally in the know most of the answers category and seem to steer us back to redweek.com or perhaps an affiliate??? At this point I am questioning everything and everyone. I just paid redweek.com to post my timeshare for resale and was surprise to see that one like mine was selling for only $1,000 but has been listed already for a couple of months. Huummmmmm!

mattlynr wrote:

The common theme here is "DO NOT PAY ANY UPFRONT FEES". Some of us has paid redweek.com to post our timeshares for rental or resale. Does anyone know if any timeshares have actually been sold? And no offense but Jayjay who are you? You seem to be totally in the know most of the answers category and seem to steer us back to redweek.com or perhaps an affiliate??? At this point I am questioning everything and everyone. I just paid redweek.com to post my timeshare for resale and was surprise to see that one like mine was selling for only $1,000 but has been listed already for a couple of months. Huummmmmm!

I always tell owners to think before joining any site! Go on and see how many units at your resort are listed and for how long. Check prices and then decide if you want to spend the money to list there!

Sometimes Redweek would work great and other times you need to try some other site with less of your resort listings!

Remember to check apples to apples when comparing the units.

You need to understand that it is hard to sell a timeshare so price is everything and type of resort and location is also everything!

Remember that there are owners that will take almost any amount to get rid of their timeshares. There are others that are just plain greedy or clueless and this is why you will see big difference in unit pricing!

I was looking at another site couple days ago just to watch my resort and found two ads next to each other with the cheapest season of fall/spring which covers about 12 off weeks a year.

One owner was asking $1900 and this included 2007 mf and the other ad listed same exact unit for $15000.

This is what I mean by greedy or clueless owners! Get your ad next to couple of these owners and your price will look good!

If you really just want to get rid of it list with low price and remember you are not going to make a profit unless you paid almost nothing for it!

Good luck and hope you bought it on the resale market!

ALSO REMEMBER TIMESHARE RULE"DO NOT LIST WITH PAY UPFRONT COMPANY" OR YOU WILL STILL OWN YOUR TIMESHARE BUT YOU AND YOUR MONEY WILL PART WAYS!

I have this problem every trip to Lake Tahoe but have fun while losing it! Couple guys/girls name Keno/ Slot Poker and Blackjack take my money!

I don't like to double post but here goes:

matt, I'm not in any shape, form or fashion employed by Redweek, nor do I have any technical knowledge of how Redweek works. I am a mere member of Redweek and have been so since their inception several years ago. I have sold several timeshares via Redweek.

I do know that Redweek was started by the same man who started the very successful classmates.com. Redweek is not owned by timeshare members. The owner had the vision to realize the millions of resale timeshares there are in the marketplace and he set up this classified site for the purpose of buying, renting, selling and now exchanging timeshares for a reasonable fee, which is not considered an upfront fee. It's a classified ad and exchanging fee.

There's no way you could dig up any dirt on Redweek. It's a perfectly legal site that doesn't lie to it's clients.

You, as a timeshare owner, are responsible for what you write in your Redweek ad and what you ask for your timeshare. If you bought from the developer you will NOT recoup what you paid as resales typically garner only about 1/3 + - of what you paid the developer (that is IF you can sell it at all). The market (buyer) and supply and demand sets the price for any resale timeshare. There are hundreds of resales on Ebay for $1 with no bids ... some timeshares can't even be given away.

Thousands of people are getting timeshare educated due to forums like these and they are realizing that once they buy a timeshare they are then responsible for yearly maintenance fees and possible special assessments until they sell the timeshare or die, and even then their timeshare is transferred to the heirs of their estate who are then responaible for those yearly maintenance fees and possible special assessments.

The main hindrances to any timeshare ownership are rising yearly maintenance fees and possible special assessments.

Good Jayjay,

In that case, keep providing valuable knowledge.

mattlynr wrote:

Good Jayjay,

In that case, keep providing valuable knowledge.

Thanks Matt, I'm trying my best. BTW, sorry to have accused you of being a shill for an upfront fee company. They have been known to come here and post.

what does floating week mean? I am looking to purchase a timeshare in Myrtle Beach SC. We just toured South Beach Resort and the price was outrageous but the resale units seem reasonable since South Beach is now building on the ocean side and you will be able to stay on either side of Ocean Blvd. when the new building opens next year (or so they said). We go to Myrtle Beach 5 or 6 times throughout the year. We love off season but the children like summer months so we go a lot.

stephaniee21 wrote:

what does floating week mean? I am looking to purchase a timeshare in Myrtle Beach SC. We just toured South Beach Resort and the price was outrageous but the resale units seem reasonable since South Beach is now building on the ocean side and you will be able to stay on either side of Ocean Blvd. when the new building opens next year (or so they said). We go to Myrtle Beach 5 or 6 times throughout the year. We love off season but the children like summer months so we go a lot.

If you vacation mostly in the summer months, then a fixed week is the way to go. A floating week means you don't own a certain week and you have to make reservations in advance for summer since summer weeks are the most requested with kids/teachers out of school.

Minimal fees should not be considered as bogus upfront fees. Otherwise redweek and other good rental and resale sites would be included in the upfront scam outfits. The highest upfront cost that I have seen that was in the legitimate category was $ 50.