Keller Williams

[Rainforest]

Is Keller Williams involved in legitimate timeshare sales or are calls from KW agents offering to discuss sale of our timeshare a scam?

 

[dioxide45]

If you don't have your timeshare listed anywhere for sale and/or they are cold calling you, it is a 100% scam. Often these scammers will use names of legitimate companies to make themselves look legitimate. When in fact they aren't.

 

[RX8]

Not likely. If you received a cold call telling you that they have a buyer for your timeshare it is 100% a scam.

Sounds like they called you based on your post. What did they say and/or promise? These scams usually target owners of Mexican timeshares but they have started to branch out to owners of US based timeshares. The scam is the same though. What do you own? Do you have it listed for sale? Did they offer a ridiculous amount of money?

 

[easyrider]

Is Keller Williams involved in legitimate timeshare sales or are calls from KW agents offering to discuss sale of our timeshare a scam?

Realtors can and do sell timeshares. In most resort areas a local realtor could have a few listings. The last timeshare adds I saw were in the window of a broker on the Oregon Coast. They wouldn't be cold calling anyone, imo. The seller would be initiating the contact.

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[rickandcindy23]

Probably a scam.

I used to work for the Denver MLS, and Timeshare was one of the property types a Realtor could choose to list a property. I only saw a few listed. This was back in the mid-1990's. I think most Realtors would see this as a waste of time and effort to sell timeshares, but I also know that there are companies that specialize in timeshare sales that are legitimate and are worthy of the time in listing and buying.

Disney, Westin, Hilton, Marriott, etc, are all great products that are sold through real estate brokers. My favorites are sellingtimeshares.net and advantagevacation.com I have only purchased through advantagevacation.com but have perused the listings on other sites.

The salespeople need to be on top of things and not ignore messages and questions, as though we aren't worthy of their time. That is what I got from sellingtimeshares.net's Samuel Rodriguez. I stopped taking that guy seriously. Seth Nock was great but you cannot get him on the phone.

If you have something worthy to sell and are willing to take a very low price for it compared to developer price, those are places to contact. But if you have a timeshare not even worth the broker fee, you won't be able to sell it for much. Wyndham points, Shell, legacy timeshares (older fixed week and floating weeks/units) are not worth much at all.

 

[montygz]

Is Keller Williams involved in legitimate timeshare sales or are calls from KW agents offering to discuss sale of our timeshare a scam?

The timeshare world is rife with scammers who claim they can sell your timeshare, sell your unwanted timeshare weeks, sell this, exit that and on and on and on.
If you own a timeshare you will get cold calls. Lots of cold calls.
Timeshare owners must have a reputation as suckers and easy marks who will believe anything and not bother doing a Google search to check if it is true.
All these scams devolve into prepayment scams. Give them money upfront and they will "solve" your problem. Solve as in disappearing or putting your timeshare on a website where it will never sell.
It is annoying to get these calls, but just ignore them. Understand what you own and how to legitimately get rid of your timeshare if you want to do that.