Roll them dice...
We recently purchased a 2 br at Orange Lake week 10 for $2 off Ebay. They are now asking us to close the deal of course, and asking for ID etc. How do you know if a company is legitimate? The company is VacationServices2, anyone heard of them?
Thanks.
Personally, I've never heard this name before as a reseller
or as a known closing entity, but neither do I choose to ever conduct timeshare transactions vis eBay.
Many eBay resellers require use of their own mandated closing entity, with no other choice or option available to the buyer. Precious few (...if any) of these "mandatory" closers are excellent, despite often charging
more money for closing fees than even the best professional timeshare closing companies in the business. Many are only marginally competent (...on a good day) and some are just outright inept (...every day). In some instances, the seller and the "closer" are actually just the very
same people anyhow, merely donning different hats for different parts of the transaction. Unfortunately, it's often a real roll of the dice with many eBay resellers regarding even the accurate
identification of the listed product in the first place, let alone competent and reasonably priced closing services later.
I hope that your luck is good in rolling the dice on this, although a two dollar bet for a fixed week 10 in Florida certainly seems to be a decent bet with minimal risk, assuming that the listing is even factually accurate in the first place (...a
very big assumption with many bumbling eBay resellers). I would respectfully suggest demanding a recently dated copy of estoppel documentation issued by the resort (i.e., not one "created" by the reseller) for verification of the product and owners' account status.