Lakota Vacations LLC Offer To Sell My Timeshare

[hockman4357]

I own a Villa Del Palmar studio floating week. A couple of weeks ago I received a call from a representative of Lakota Vacations LLS located in Washington and a subsequent email with an attachment claiming that they would guarantee the sale of my timeshare in the amount of $21,580.

I am quite certain that this is nothing more than a scam. Has anyone had dealings with this company? What is the catch?

 

[jc92869]

Try This.

I own a Villa Del Palmar studio floating week. A couple of weeks ago I received a call from a representative of Lakota Vacations LLS located in Washington and a subsequent email with an attachment claiming that they would guarantee the sale of my timeshare in the amount of $21,580.

I am quite certain that this is nothing more than a scam. Has anyone had dealings with this company? What is the catch?

Tell them that because you like them so much, you are willing to give them the timeshare away for free. All they have to do is send you $250 to cover closing costs. Since they can easily sell it for 21k, i'm sure they will jump at the opportunity.

 

[TheTimeTraveler]

Tell them that because you like them so much, you are willing to give them the timeshare away for free. All they have to do is send you $250 to cover closing costs. Since they can easily sell it for 21k, i'm sure they will jump at the opportunity.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[timeos2]

I own a Villa Del Palmar studio floating week. A couple of weeks ago I received a call from a representative of Lakota Vacations LLS located in Washington and a subsequent email with an attachment claiming that they would guarantee the sale of my timeshare in the amount of $21,580.

I am quite certain that this is nothing more than a scam. Has anyone had dealings with this company? What is the catch?

And the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and Great Pumpkin are all real too. You've nailed it as a scam. Forget trying to deal with them.

 

[Passepartout]

They will be wanting upfront cash- which if you send, they will disappear, never to be seen or heard from again.

My favorite M.O. is to tell them when they ask for up-front funds to offer them double their 'commission' to be paid from the proceeds at closing. You'll never hear from them again.

No one will pay $21,000 for something worth between $1.00 and $500. No one.

Jim

 

[RX8]

Scam

Lakota vacations LLC is a scam. They have many common characteristics of similar scams. They are:

• Cold call
• New website (created August 2012)
• Testimonials from early 2012 - how can that be if they just created a website?
• Their "local" number is a VoIP Internet phone. They are likely located outside the country
• Their address in Seattle is a major sky scraper yet they don't have a suite number? That is because they dont have an office there - see above.

There IS an LLC in Washington by that name, since 2005. I have noticed this on the last scam I investigated. I think the scammers are now looking for an active entity that has no presence on the web and are hijacking the name for their own purposes.

The only thing true at their website is this statement:

"The effectiveness of our business model is proven time and again"

That business model of course is scamming people. This is my guess of what that model is (maybe I should add a step of searching for a legal entity to hijack the name):

(1) Search Google to get an address of a nice "office", (2) create VoIP phone numbers that have a local pre fix to match their "office" location, (3) make up testimonials, (4) CREATE the website, (5) bombard timeshare owners with phone calls, (6) have shills post on TUG and elsewhere announcing what a reputable company they are, (7) reap in stolen money until the heat increases, (8) close website, (9) repeat step 1.

 

[AwayWeGo]

Razzle-Dazzle & Ballyhoo "R" Us.

No one will pay $21,000 for something worth between $1.00 and $500. No one.

Yeh -- nobody except maybe some of the vacationers who get fast-talked into taking no-obligation timeshare tours for freebies & end up paying $21,000 & more for timeshares worth . . .

. . . somewhere between $1 & $500.

Unfortunately, the biz model of the timeshare "industry" is based on hoodwinking people just that way.

I don't know how the full-freight timeshare sellers are able to look themselves in the mirror.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[hockman4357]

Thanks everyone!!!