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Timeshare reviews are full of complaints. Learn the most common ones and avoid becoming a timeshare victim. As soon as you hear these lies usually told in sales presentations, say "no, thank you" and walk away from the sales rep.
Selling fraudulent timeshares in Mexico is becoming a common practice, as it is becoming harder to reach the goals timeshare managers have every month.
The following is a list of the five most common complaints.
Please share this information with others to prevent your friends and family from falling victim to timeshare scams in Mexico.
Complaint #1: Guaranteed Rental Income
The most common complaint is the promise of guaranteed rental income for timeshare weeks.
Many clients are enticed into buying a timeshare or a larger package than they need or can afford, because the salesperson presents the timeshare as a financial investment.
The sales reps claim that the client’s timeshare weeks will be deposited into their marketing program and rented out by them.
In reality, after the client has purchased and returned home, they are referred to an outside rental agency.
The rental agency will charge an upfront fee to list the property.
The timeshare weeks are typically never rented, and when the client tries to contact the rental agency or the timeshare resort, their calls and emails are ignored.
Complaint #2: Guaranteed Resale of Previously Owned Timeshare
Most vacationers who already have a timeshare membership are not interested in purchasing another membership due to the high maintenance fees involved in timeshare ownership.
The salespeople are very aware of this, and as a sales tactic, they promise to resell, trade in, or do an equity exchange for the previously owned timeshare in order to subsidize the purchase of a new timeshare contract.
Some organizations will create an equity exchange agreement.
The client believes that the resort will take over their old timeshare, which means that they will no longer be responsible for paying the maintenance fees.
Other resorts refer clients to an outside resale agent.
The resale agents draft up a contract stating that the sale of the other property will be completed in 90–120 days.
Within this time period, the timeshare resort tries to offer incentives, such as discounts, if the client pays for the timeshare in full.
This is because they are aware that the previously owned timeshare will not sell, but they still want to ensure that the client remits their full payment.
The promised of a guaranteed resale or trade-in of an old timeshare is one of the most financially detrimental timeshare complaints because the client is left buying a new membership, without the profit from the old membership, and has to pay maintenance fees on both properties.
Complaint #3: False Annuity Programs
Some timeshare salespeople claim that the resort has relationships with major banks that will offer an annuity program.
The timeshare salesperson claims that if the purchaser pays an additional 5% of the timeshare purchase upfront to an outside organization, the purchaser will get the benefit of the use of the timeshare, and receive the entire purchase price of the timeshare back at the end of the contract from the annuity program.
This is another ploy to ask for upfront fees for a service that does not exist.
Complaint #4: Maintenance Fees Increase continuously
Another common complaint is the verbal promise that the maintenance fees are fixed and will not increase for the life of the contract, essentially, locking in the cost of the vacation.
Unfortunately, this claim is not true, and the timeshare owners find themselves responsible for maintenance fees that increase far more rapidly than the rate of inflation.
The increasing costs of maintenance fees, coupled with the affordable online travel deals available today, negates any benefit of owning a timeshare.
In fact, taking a vacation to a timeshare resort is often more expensive, when you factor in the flights, maintenance fees, food, etc. than booking an all-inclusive deal to the same resort online.
Complaint #5: Special Assessment Fees
Increasing maintenance fees are not the only complaint that owners experience.
Some timeshare resorts are also implementing special assessments every 5 years or so, which, in effect, double the maintenance fee for that year.
The timeshare resorts claim to be using the special assessment for special projects or to cover costs incurred by unexpected circumstances; however, most of the resorts that are imposing special assessments do not have valid reasons to do so.
If you have been sent a bill for a special assessment, ask the resort to clearly outline each expenditure that it will be used for, as well as how your maintenance fees were spent.
If it does not seem valid, contact Mexican Timeshare Solutions for a free assessment of how we can help you cancel your timeshare contract.
If you have experienced any of the above timeshare scams, do not hesitate to contact us at Mexican Timeshare Solutions.
We help clients with all types of timeshare complaints to cancel their Mexican timeshare contract and recover their hard-earned money.
Contact us today for our free advice on how we can help you resolve your timeshare complaint.
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Good day to you all, Here is my experience with Maeva at Saint Raphael, in south of France. Mafia, just, mafia. I bought 5 months(nov. to march) 8 years ago. When I did the ex owners showed to me the worderful business I was going to have. Every week was rented so I could pay maintenance and get a bit of my money back. I paid 30.000 euros and by now I lost another 30.000. The appt is rented 2 o 3 weeks in 5 months ( I cannot believe it, of course, the real truth is that they do not say anything to me and keep the rented money for themselves) Once I could not paid the maintenance money and they just took me to the Justice. Wonderful Maeva and his dreadful empire.
nunca te ayudan con nada, se comprometen a ayudarte a vender tus propiedades pero jamas hacen nada, te hacen creer que lo han hecho!!
I don't like timeshares
My family has a timeshare and I dislike it. It's great to have a garuanteed vacation every year, but it's really annoying to not be able to pick the week (the trading they tell you you can do isn't as easy as it sounds)
We save money on vacations as well by having a kitchen and can sleep all 8 of us comfortably. But we will simply rent a house for a week when we go to a particular location. It is very easy to do without the annual fee.
I think that people get caught up in the moment when they are on vacation. I too own at Sheraton Buganvilias but would never, ever have payed for what they are asking for at the resort.I dont care how how good it sounds for a free breakfast and whatever else they may offer you, they will hold you hostage for hours trying to wear you down. It's best to say "NO" from the get go. I got a chuckle out of people in the pool talking about the timeshare they just purchased there.Impulsive decisions as far as i am concerned.I am proud to say i purchased my one bedroom ( 14 years left on the lease) for $450.00.
I just purchased a two bedroom there for $250.00 with 10 years left on the lease.My scheduled weeks are not convienient for me so i pay $59.00 for an internal trade fee.I come out less than $75.00 a day to stay at a four star Gold Crown Resort for the one bedroom and less than $90.00 for my two bedroom.I will use both this year and rent them out next year for just my maintance fees.
I would love some type of group action against the Timeshare Industry. Anybody know how? I'm tired of just taking it.
So you buy a time slot or share of a property and than pay additional fees for maintenance and than find it extremely hard to sell this "option" to others? So you pay exorbitant upfront costs and basically own it for life?
I have a timeshare that is fully paid for. I bought it over a decade ago because my girlfriend at the time wanted me to do it. Now that girlfriend is gone and my wife hates the place so we don't go. We pay maintenance fees for something we don't even want. i've looked into selling it and all I find is scams. I can't sell it because I'm told it has no value.
the false promises are the most common complaint, they always promise you everything, the best, they say that buying a timeshare is going to be a good invest, but it's not true, they always ruin you
there is not just 5 complaints, there are a lot of complaints about fraud on timeshares :S but i agree with all
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