Of course, it is true someone has to make a developer purchase for there to be resales.
And I don’t mind enjoying the spoils of the current system through buying resale.
However, I refuse to believe timeshares would go away entirely if they had to be sold ethically.
I do agree there is an ethics problem with sales, and there should be a way to hold them accountable for lies. But beyond that, I don't see what they're gonna be able to do to make retail the same as resale. They're just not going to "sell" initial contracts for free or ultra cheap like you can find on the resale market, they have to pay for the costs of both developing resorts (for the companies who are still creating new ones) and the sales apparatus, to include both marketing and salespeople. Those development and marketing/sales costs don't apply to resale. Yes, there may be costs from listing on sites like Redweek or commissions to brokers/realtors, but it's not nearly in the same ballpark. So again the main thing that we could try to resolve is sales ethics. Maybe if it were just straight salary rather than comission there would be less outright lies. Then there is the feeling of being "stuck" in a timeshare. I know some companies will accept deedbacks, but some won't at all, or only for specific contracts. And those that do, it's not always apparent and easy to find out how to go about it. I would support, at the least, mandatory free deedbacks once initial loans are paid off, and even a requirement that MFs be up to date, along with prominent advertising of that option.
