Why am I trying to sell it?
I wanted to get some feedback on why so many want to sell their timeshare. do people just no longer want to travel? Is it the corruption of many of the resort developers?
If people can share their views maybe we can come up with a better solution.
Because the crooked developers broke their committments. I inherited this timeshare from my mother-in-law. She bought in Arkansas(!), too far to be convenient. But she bought because the slick salesman told her it didn't matter where she bought because she could easily exchange the week for weeks anywhere through the Fairfield FAX program. And for many years she did so. And we did for a while. Then Fairfield (and later Wyndham) made it successively harder and harder to exchange.
The exchange fees kept creeping up year after year to the point where it wasn't economic. At the same time, Fairfield (and Wyndham) kept removing more and more resorts from the exchange program, limiting our options. About six years ago, Fairfield told owners it would no longer print and mail a catalog of resorts eligible for exchange. You had to go on their cumbersome and painfully slow website and query all the resorts, one-by-one, to see which ones were still in the dwindling exchange program.
Then, to cap it all, three years ago owners received a letter informing us that exchange was not a part of the ownership contract; it was now being construed by Wyndham as a revokable benefit and they were choosing to revoke it. There were to be no more exchanges beyond those already booked.
So, you ask, why do I want to sell this timeshare? It's too far away and in a place I've never wanted to visit! That's not to say I'm against timeshares in general. I just bought one in South Carolina two years ago.
Another question I had:
If you wanted to sell your timeshare what would make you consider keeping it?: better accommodations? lower maintenance fees?
One thing: a low-fee exchange program with desirable resorts.
Larry M
