Sorry to dig up an old thread... I had purchased a Willow Ridge week with alltimevacations on ebay a couple of weeks ago... I asked to choose our own closing company and they did not allow that.. I thought it was odd that they wanted the money right away and not through an escrow company... I wanted the week so I proceeded...
They used "Property Relief" for closing... they sent me the contract and said they would get our deed prepared and sent... numerous e-mails to Property Relief to get an update for the Marriott ROFR and estoppel report were not answered.. after 10 days I filed a dispute with Paypal and they refunded my money immediately without sending an update. I am glad they refunded the money even though we were excited about purchasing the week.
The Harbour Lake week we had purchased through another seller on ebay took 2 days to get the ROFR back and within 10 days since purchase had the deed recorded and paperwork to Marriott... alltimevacations e-mails and says that Marriott takes 30 days for ROFR and he can provide me with the number to confirm that with them...
Another thing that alltimevacations does is that they do not allow payment through ebay... they specifically request that payment be sent through paypal invoice only. After refunding ouir money.. they filed an unpaid item case against our ebay account!
I talked to ebay and ebay stated that alltimevacations set it up that way so they can get their ebay fees back. I have proof that it was paid through paypal but they said it would have to wait till the seller closes the unpaid item after 5 days.. then they get the money back and my account gets a strike for non payment. I would then have to appeal the non payment strike and get that removed...
I left a negative feedback for them.. and they commented back.. of course what they commented back on the feedback was totally not true as it was different than the status updates he has given us.