jamcclure1044
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I get phone calls every couple of days from companies offering to take my timeshare off my hands, and I'm seeing lots of TV commercials with the same pitch.
A couple of years ago I went to a lunch presentation for one of these outfits. They offered to assume ownership of my timeshare in exchange for a bunch of points good for any vacation anywhere. And (no surprise) a fee of thousands of dollars. The pitch employed all the familiar timeshare sales tactics: a young sales person, then an older sales person and finally a "closer" with lots of numbers scrawled on a sheet of paper. As a timeshare veteran, I beat a hasty retreat.
Years ago my wife and I fell for a similar proposal and signed papers relinquishing ownership of one of our timeshares. Then we began getting collection calls to pay our timeshare maintenance fees because -- surprise! -- we still owned the timeshare.
Are any of these companies on the level?
A couple of years ago I went to a lunch presentation for one of these outfits. They offered to assume ownership of my timeshare in exchange for a bunch of points good for any vacation anywhere. And (no surprise) a fee of thousands of dollars. The pitch employed all the familiar timeshare sales tactics: a young sales person, then an older sales person and finally a "closer" with lots of numbers scrawled on a sheet of paper. As a timeshare veteran, I beat a hasty retreat.
Years ago my wife and I fell for a similar proposal and signed papers relinquishing ownership of one of our timeshares. Then we began getting collection calls to pay our timeshare maintenance fees because -- surprise! -- we still owned the timeshare.
Are any of these companies on the level?