Vacation Club

[LJMORRIS2001]

I recently received several calls from Vacation Club (Tennessee) offering to buy my timeshare and paying all legal and title fees. All this after watching a 10 minute video about what it entails and gets you completely out of timeshare. The cost is about $15K to join their club WITHOUT yearly maintenance fees and YOU CAN TRAVEL to nice places and resorts by scheduling 8-12 months. I watched the video and it does sound convincing. I assume if you “sell” them the timeshare you get some discount from the $15K one-time fee. Anyone heard about this company or is it another scammer. I do want to sell my Sheraton Flex/Westin/Marriott Abound timeshare as a Gold Member but I’m not sure about this Vacation Club

 

[dioxide45]

It may not be a 100% scam, but it undoubtedly won't work out in your favor. This vacation club will be nothing more than leftover RCI inventory and other regular stuff you can book yourself online at any of the many travel website for the same price. They may take your timeshare and add it to the club, but what they tend to do is then rent the good stuff out for cash and leave "members" with leftover junk. My recommendation is to not do it. Don't throw good money after bad. Do you own the Vistana timeshare outright? If so, they are usually pretty easy to give away for free, or even sell and make a little cash. What exactly do you own?

 

[EnglishmanAbroad]

I recently received several calls from Vacation Club (Tennessee) offering to buy my timeshare and paying all legal and title fees. All this after watching a 10 minute video about what it entails and gets you completely out of timeshare. The cost is about $15K to join their club WITHOUT yearly maintenance fees and YOU CAN TRAVEL to nice places and resorts by scheduling 8-12 months. I watched the video and it does sound convincing. I assume if you “sell” them the timeshare you get some discount from the $15K one-time fee. Anyone heard about this company or is it another scammer. I do want to sell my Sheraton Flex/Westin/Marriott Abound timeshare as a Gold Member but I’m not sure about this Vacation Club

It's a novel concept. You want to sell your timeshare by giving somebody $15K? Hmmm........

 

[grgs]

If you're really interested in trips the video is marketing, you can likely take some of trips already with your existing ownership. Lots of people on TUG who can advise on maximizing what you have now.

If you want to be done with being a timeshare owner, TUG folks can advise on selling (or possibly giving away--depending on what you own).

I strongly recommend going either of those routes before you spend any additional money.

 

[DavidnRobin]

Getting someone to throw good money after bad is the basic essence of a scam.


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[dioxide45]

Getting someone to throw good money after bad is the basic essence of a scam.


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Timeshare companies do it every day with so called "upgrades".

 

[DavidnRobin]

Perfect…

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[EnglishmanAbroad]

Perfect…

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Nice to see another Englishman Abroad who also talks sense

 

[DavidnRobin]

Nice to see another Englishman Abroad who also talks sense

And yet the thread created was deleted?
Weird - I’d like to know reasoning as it contains many of the things promoted here?


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[dioxide45]

And yet the thread created was deleted?

I think it is because the video has already been posted across several forms and threads. No need for duplicate threads.

 

[DavidnRobin]

I think it is because the video has already been posted across several forms and threads. No need for duplicate threads.

Thanks. Brian let me know.
I only read Vistana thread - IMO it should be posted on every resort specific page as many may not see if they just go to one forum like me.


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