If you have been victimized by either a timeshare resale firm or a timeshare resort, add your complaint below.
Timeshare Scams and Fraud
Nashville Resort Sales Ripoff - Nashville Resort Sales
Company Name: Nashville Resort Sales
Company Address: 2817 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN,37203, Nashville, TN
Company Website: http://nashvilleresortsales.webs.com/
Company Phone: (615) 378-7552
Sales Person: John Hartman
Sales Manager: John Hartman
This letter’s purpose is to explain the actions and sequence of actions which led to an alleged scam performed by “Nashville Resort Sales, of Nashville, TN. which caused the writer a loss in an excess of $360.00
The scam all started from an email that was sent to me from a man named “John Hartman” from “Nashville Resorts Sales” telling me that they had a buyer interested in our Bluegreen Timeshare Points. The email included a phone number (which I found to be legit and after research could find no complaints towards the company online or even through Better Business Bureau. (see email # 1) Everything seemed legit, they had a company name, address, phone number (Nashville Resort Sales, 2817 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203 (615) 378-7552) and even their own website. (http://nashvilleresortsales.webs.com/), which is still active today.
They continued to email and call and leave messages during the work day, but would not reply to my emails or calls, until (see email #2) where I sent them an email providing them a phone number and John Hartman called shortly thereafter telling me that he had a client that had contracted with them to buy several pieces of Bluegreen properties.
(see attachments_bluegreen resorts_dc.pdf) where it gave the actual name of the buyer: Donald Collins, Client ID # TRE-847267 with the seller being found by “Nashville Resort Sales” at a purchase price of $15,700.
John Hartman emailed me the “contract” on 12/19/2012, between the two of them (Nashville Resorts and Donald Collins – witnessed by Lucille Moore) and within a couple of hours he had called me to inform me that Mr. Collins had accepted the dollar amount offer. I was then told that since they had already sold my property that the “Seller shall pay the City and County Transfer Taxes ($96.18,) Title search fee ($99.00,) and the Money Transfer Fee ($12.00.) (Quoted from the contract between Nashville Resort Sales and Donald Collins.) So I reluctantly wired the funds through Western Union on Jan. 28, 2013 for the sale of a Bluegreen property based in Pigeon Forge, TN with 7000 points for $15,700.00. (at the Rite-Aid store in King, NC) in the amount of $195.18 for transfer fees, title search and taxes to a “Craig Noble” in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (whom he called the “president of the company” explaining that it had to be sent directly to him because Florida law states that the president is personally held responsible for all fraud if there were to be any). I was then told that they would mail me the paperwork and I would receive my money within fifteen days.
They called me back shortly after getting back home from making the transfer and told me that they had received my money and told me to send my mailing address by return email so they could send me the paperwork. Then a few hours later they called again and said there was some type of computer problem that was not accepting the title search fees, because it was the wrong amount and that I needed to transfer by Western Union “Craig Noble” again with an additional $60.00 to make up the difference for the problem and was even told I would receive a refund for the extra $12.00 that I spent on the extra Western Union transfer fee. I even remember telling him that “everyone knows that a sure sign of a scam was where they asked for money up front.” His explanation was that you should never pay someone upfront to TRY to sell your Timeshare, but this was different, he had ALREADY sold mine, so it was not upfront. This was money being paid after the sale.
After several emails with no responses, no one personally answering the phone and no one returning my messages left on their voice mail, I came to the conclusion that I what I had feared had come true. I realized I had been scammed. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. I know I will never see my $360 + again but someone needs to stop these people.