REM -- Resort Equity Marketing -- Anybody Know about it ?

[Redmike]

May be a dumb question at TUG, but this firm was mentioned by a friend of mine, for renting my timeshare.
Anybody ever heard of them ? Deal with them ?
They claim to not be a listing company -- they claim to contract with conventions that need lodging space.

 

[AwayWeGo]

No Knowledge -- Just A Strong Hunch.

May be a dumb question at TUG, but this firm was mentioned by a friend of mine, for renting my timeshare.
Anybody ever heard of them ? Deal with them ?
They claim to not be a listing company -- they claim to contract with conventions that need lodging space.

For some reason that I can't quite put my finger on, this sets off my digital Baloney Detector to the max.

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

 

[gorevs9]

Click here for an old thread on this topic.

I'll give them credit...they're persistent

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

May be a dumb question at TUG, but this firm was mentioned by a friend of mine, for renting my timeshare.
Anybody ever heard of them ? Deal with them ?
They claim to not be a listing company -- they claim to contract with conventions that need lodging space.

From my experience with conventions and trade shows, conventions would have zero interest in timeshares for lodging. Every convention that I have been associated with has contractual obligations to fill minimum numbers of hotel rooms as part of the convention package. We are always concerned with meeting our minimum commitments for hotel rooms. Let's say someone were to approach us proposing timeshare lodging and siphoning people away from the hotel. On a scale of 1 (no interest) to 10 (what a fantastic idea), we'd rank the idea at about -8.

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I hope you get the idea. Talking about marketing timeshare rentals to convention arrangers is total nonsense. Of course they can contact convention planners and offer their rooms, and I guess that could be construed as "marketing to conventions". But the likelihood of actually contracting with a convention to put people into rooms or even having the timeshares listed as a lodging option for attendees ... :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical:

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That being said, I do know of people who have stayed in timeshares when attending conferences and conventions. I've done it myself. In every case I know it was done by people who were timeshare owners and saw a way to save money by using one of their weeks for the conference.

 

[calgarygary]

May be a dumb question at TUG, but this firm was mentioned by a friend of mine, for renting my timeshare.
Anybody ever heard of them ? Deal with them ?
They claim to not be a listing company -- they claim to contract with conventions that need lodging space.

I would re-evaluate who your friends are!

 

[sugareboo]

resort equity marketing

oh yeh i know about rem they took $800 never heard a word from them had many other stuff goinmg on in our life so didn't keep track until am while later much to our chagrin there was a class action suit against them and we were too late to get in have heard later that they are defunked lesson learned

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

have heard later that they are defunked

I guess that means that James Brown and George Clinton won't be using them either. :rofl:

 

[s0ldiersc0tt]

Dang

Well I got a call from these guys today. I have two timeshares with Silverleaf and they acted like they were representing them. I spoke with Sliverleaf, and they said they never heard of the company. I started searching for the company name online and came across this website. They said they could rent out my weeks for $2,190 guaranteed. That seemed fishy to me.

He then asked for my CC number to pay the $800 enrollment fee.
I didn't give it to him. Said I wanted something in writing.
Said his "legal" department couldn't draw up a contract until I paid.
I said email me agreement to sign first.
Said he tried but his email "Didn't go through".
Told him to fax it to me.
He did. I received it; it was a two page flyer for his company.

To bad I wasn't this diligent before I posted my timeshare for sell with Buyatimeshare.com.