Diamond Interval Services

Unfortunately I fell for it and I am out $2498. Got sucked in by the whole song and dance story. Had caller ID's that matched for sales rep and buyer from another state. Didn't find anything negative on the internet when I first looked. I am looking into what I can do about my money, but probable just kiss it goodbye.

christineb283 wrote:

Unfortunately I fell for it and I am out $2498. Got sucked in by the whole song and dance story. Had caller ID's that matched for sales rep and buyer from another state. Didn't find anything negative on the internet when I first looked. I am looking into what I can do about my money, but probable just kiss it goodbye.

Have you tried filing a complaint with the Attorney-General where the scam artist is located. It may be a lengthy process but it is a shot.

I have contacted the FTC and the Florida Attorney General. Let me know if you can think of anything else I can do to stop these people from preying on others.

The same thing happened to me and I also spoke with Angelina-complete with the barking dog and sob story of a backed out sale. She kept me on the phone for about an hour. I asked for the number of the person to contact at Diamond and phoned that person who basically told me that they would handle the closing but I had to pay $2500 up front. Needless to say, after reading some of the comments on this post, I did not pursue this any more. What I was confused about was how they got my listing to begin with. I have only listed through redweek and they said they got it from the resort. What a crock.

That seems to be how they got my info as well. Don't know how they got my phone number??? But red week is the only place I am listed. Perhaps there is someone inside selling numbers.

Andrea and Christine,

Please know that RedWeek.com doesn't share your phone number without your permission. I checked both of your RedWeek accounts and neither of you included your phone numbers so we don't have them. It doesn't appear that either of you included your phone number in the description area of your postings either. Even if you did include your phone number on your posting only paid members can view that information. These companies get access to your phone number and other timeshare information from a lot of different sources but they aren't getting this information from RedWeek. Please be assured of that.

Thank you, Marty

christineb283 wrote:

Don't know how they got my phone number??? But red week is the only place I am listed. Perhaps there is someone inside selling numbers.

Personally, I have for a LONG time suspected that rogue employees within RCI occasionally "leak" (i.e., sell) owner info to third parties (although RCI itself does NOT do so and does NOT authorize or sanction RCI employees doing so on their own). Of course, this same type of "owner info leakage" could also just as easily occur via a rogue employee right AT the actual resort, REGARDLESS of whether or not that particular resort is RCI affiliated (my particular resort was ONLY RCI affiliated). Interval International could also have rogue employees "leaking" (i.e., selling) owner info on II-affiliated resort II members, without the knowledge or authorization of company management.

Back when I was a RCI member (...which I am no longer and will never be again...), I owned a few weeks at a particular resort (an ownership I've since sold). I used to get frequent, unsolicited, unwelcome "timeshare related" calls at my (unlisted, unpublished) home phone number from assorted third party parasites and scammers, such as those apparently contacting you now. I had NEVER advertised those particular weeks anywhere, at anytime, for ANY reason --- so how could these parasites even know I that even owned weeks at this particular facility in the first place, let alone obtain my unlisted and unpublished home phone number??? To me, there were really ONLY TWO possibile explanations for these parasites somehow obtaining my resort ownership info and / or my unlisted, unpublished home phone number --- the info was obtained from EITHER internal RCI records OR directly from the RCI-affiliated resort at which I owned those particular weeks. I could think of NO other possible explanation then and I can think of NO other plausible explanation even now.

In any event, if you are registered with the national "do not call" registry administered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [...if you're not, you should be, since it takes less than 30 seconds to register...], file a complaint on line regarding any and all unsolicited telemarketer calls which you receive. See http://www.donotcall.gov (..this is also the same site at which to register in the first place). If you're not registered with the FTC "do not call" list, then filing a complaint is of no meaning or value.

I am by no means blaming redweek and we are not affliated with RCI-just interval international. However, I do intend to contact the sales associate at the resort that this pertains to. "Angelina" did not have enough pertinent information about the week that I had listed to have gotten the information from redweek. She didn't even know what the name of the timeshare was.

They got me! Similar situation back in July.... I thought I did enough research etc. Follow up attempts fruitless and phone numbers and web address shut down. I will be contacting the attorney general in Florida.

Frustrating. Not sure how they got my phone number

Well, they have a new one from Las Vegas. They called my home number from 702 987-1549. Don't know how they got my number, but a man said they had a buyer. Went through the whole story about how it isn't going to cost me a thing. They just want $1500 to show I'm not going to back out. That's when I hung up.

Anyone heard any successful resell case?

susanh640 wrote:

Anyone heard any successful resell case?

Yes. Mine. I advertised here on Redweek and priced it competitively. I was not delusional thinking that I would get a king's ransom for it.

All inquiries I answered clearly and promptly. When we both agreed on a price, we used JRA Services (timeshareresaleclosings.com).

Within a couple of months, all the paperwork and tranfers were legally done.

There was no need for an expensive middle man. My only upfront fee was the advertising fee here on Redweek (plus My Resort Network which I used but found the buyer here on RedWeek).

It's a scam. Don't fall for it like we did. I am Florida Attorney General 1-866-966-7226 and next ConsumerFraudFTC at http://ftc.gov. Do not fall for this scam. Run away and tell them you aren't interested.