We have recently received a lot of postcards by companies that claim that they can help TS owners stop paying maintenance fees for their timeshares. We attended one meeting and found out that the offer was to have us deed our timeshare to them (without any payment from them), and then pay them a fee to take ownership of our timeshare. In our case, the fee was $4,450; or, as they present it, the equivalent of a few years of maintenance fees "for the privilege of never having to pay it again." Mind you, this is on top of the timeshare that we were supposed to transfer to them. I was stupefied why someone would even consider this. But, they claim that since 1995, they have "helped" over 25,000 owners stop paying maintenance fees. The TS has to be fully paid and the maintenance fees current through 2010. Their marketing ploy to help an owner end payments of the maintenance fees can be enticing. I can even understand if an owner gives up his timeshare for no payment. But, paying a fee to transfer ownership of a fully-paid timeshare boggles the mind. I think this is ludicrous. Has anyone else been approached the same way?