Jared Ryan Properties

[Sandy Timershare]

Has anyone had any experiance with Jared Ryan. I paid them up front money to sell my timeshare. Now I realize that that was not a good thing to do. Am I out this upfront fee?

 

[Dave M]

Almost certainly.

The upfront fee companies will eagerly take your money. Getting it back after they don't do anything for you isn't easy. Only a very few people have reported here of success in obtaining refunds.

And welcome to TUG!

 

[davidslatosky]

Jared Ryan Properties-did it sell

I have talked to this company several times. it sounded better do to the sales nature. how did it end up for you?

 

[london]

Has anyone had any experiance with Jared Ryan. I paid them up front money to sell my timeshare. Now I realize that that was not a good thing to do. Am I out this upfront fee?

How high is the upfront fee to list your timeshare?

Have they priced your timeshare realistically?

 

[Sandy Timershare]

Its been over a year now and I have stopped calling. When I did call I was told to just "give it time". I think the time is up and I am out $400. And now that this has happened to me I read everwhere that you should not pay up front to sell your timeshare. That's lesson 2 for me.

 

[Bill4728]

The general wisdom is never pay a fee over about $50-$100.

THe reason the up front fee companies are able to get listings is they say they will be able to sell your TS for a price that in the most case is way too high. So you list with them and they may try and sell it by listing it a Ebay or something like that. But since the price is so far out of line with what is selling, you never get offers.

 

[DaveNV]

The general wisdom is never pay a fee over about $50-$100.

THe reason the up front fee companies are able to get listings is they say they will be able to sell your TS for a price that in the most case is way too high. So you list with them and they may try and sell it by listing it a Ebay or something like that. But since the price is so far out of line with what is selling, you never get offers.

Wow, Bill. I think you may have just solved a little mystery that happened to me awhile back. I was cruising through the eBay ads, and I saw a resort listed for an outrageous sum, far above what I knew that resort was selling for in other auctions. I wrote the seller a polite email, suggesting they may want to look at what the other sellers were getting for a similar week at that resort. The seller wrote back and basically told me to get lost. It was pretty unexpected.

At the time I couldn't figure out why they'd be so rude, or not care to know why their timeshare wasn't generating any bids. Now it occurs to me that if they were a PCC, they wouldn't care whether the timeshare sold or not. And maybe that explains why I see some ebay auctions that are so completely outrageous, the seller can't possibly expect to sell the TS for that amount.

Dave

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

At the time I couldn't figure out why they'd be so rude, or not care to know why their timeshare wasn't generating any bids. Now it occurs to me that if they were a PCC, they wouldn't care whether the timeshare sold or not. And maybe that explains why I see some ebay auctions that are so completely outrageous, the seller can't possibly expect to sell the TS for that amount.

Dave

I don't think it's the PCCs that are listing TS at unrealistic prices. Those outfits - or their cohorts - are interested in getting any money back that they can. So they price their auctions to sell.

It's the upfront fee listing outfits that have little reason to price auctions realistically. I'm sure most of them just set a reserve at the owner's asking price. Then they use the listing to show that they did their work to publicize the listing. But, unlike the PCCs and cohorts, the upfront fee companies don't make money on the sale.

 

[DaveNV]

Thanks, Steve. I meant upfront fee company, not PCC. Sorry. My brain got twisted. Again.

Dave

 

[TUGBrian]

happens on TUG too...just got a call from a very nice lady who has her timeshare listed at just a few k below what she paid for it from a developer and was curious as to why it got no attention.

hopefully now that she has called and asked and been pointed to the how to sell article and the starwood forum here...she will be able to more accurately price her resale.

However without her calling or asking about it...it would have sat on the TUG classifieds with zero inquiries!