Timeshare Scams and Fraud

I received a call from a pretty legitimate sounding salesperson. She knew when I had purchased a timeshare in June of this year and said that the bonus weeks that came with that were about to expire and that I could rent/sell them for $1500 each. She said I had 12 bonus weeks about to expire. She showed me an RCI page on line where you can sell weeks to friends or family and she said we could use that avenue to sell the "about to expire bonus weeks we owned". She said the units would be rented out within 60-90 days. The only thing I had to do was pay the $149.00 per unit that would release the units to be sold to her clients. She said I would not be charged until I signed the contract, but that she needed my credit card information to start the process. When I questione... Read More

Received a phone call on 10 July 2012 from ACCESS TRAVEL NETWORK and he offered to sell my "free weeks" (due, according to them, to expire in August 2012) of my timeshare. He said they "required" me to pay upfront for the booking fee of $149 per week for 10 weeks. Said they would send me a contract to consider and sign and return via fax. When I got the electronic version of the contract (11 July), that clearly stated "7 day cancellation policy" on the form, I reviewed the document and saw no protection for me after the initial period so I wrote CANCEL in large letters and faxed it back to them with a request for "immediate refund" of the charge against my card. Then I received another call from a different person offering to cut the charge... Read More