How do payments work with listings that are not Verified & Protected?

naomis88 wrote:

...am learning that to look at rentals you have to pay a membership which doesn't make sense to me...I can understand if I end up renting...maybe I'm missing something...

To be clear, you do NOT have to pay anything to look at rentals advertised on RedWeek. However, you DO have to join RedWeek in order to respond to listings and / or to communicate with the listing party. RedWeek membership is less than $20 per year and (in my opinion) it is well worth the cost if you intend to actually conduct any rentals on RedWeek. Requiring a paid membership goes a very long way toward effectively repelling scammers and spammers from RedWeek. As a result, RedWeek is a much safer site than Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. which are "free" but they are also sites popular with scammers and spammers. hiding behind the curtain of anonymity that those “free” sites provide.

It’s entirely your choice on how much risk you are willing to take in conducting an Internet timeshare rental transaction. .

Can a potential renter pay the $15 to Redweek to verify a listing?

davidb3146 wrote:

Can a potential renter pay the $15 to Redweek to verify a listing?

No. Only the listing advertiser / owner can get their rental listing "verified"; the advertiser actually has to submit documentation to Redweek proving their ownership. Why some advertisers don't get their listing "verified" for the small amount of money involved is a mystery to me. Personally I would never post (and have never posted) a rental listing without getting it verified. A "verified" RedWeek listing provides peace of mind for the prospective renter and, for the advertiser, it avoids wasting time answering multiple communications all asking the same questions over and over again.

As a renter, I would frankly be careful with (and leery of) "unverified" rental listings on RedWeek. For starters, such ads could have been placed by people attempting to rent out a week that they obtained by exchange from RCI or II, which is a practice strictly prohibited by the terms and conditions of both of those exchange companies. Such weeks could never get “verified” for the listing advertiser, since the advertiser doesn't actually own such "exchange" weeks in the first place.