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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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the maintenance fees increasing sooooo often it's, i think, my biggest complaint about timeshares
So not only are they scamming you on the way in, taking your "fees" and running with them, but then they turn back around and offer to help get those "fees" back for even more "fees"????
We have owned a timeshare week in Orlando for 19 years that we no longer use and wonder if you have any advice on how to unload it. It sleeps eight people, has two bathrooms and is for a “floating” week, which means we can go at any time of year, even over the holidays. But now we are of an age where we can’t travel anymore. We want to sell it, but we have fallen for a scam twice. Everyone wants money upfront to help you get out of your timeshare. We have tried most every avenue. We don’t know what would happen if we just stopped paying maintenance fees. We have good credit and wouldn’t want to ruin it. Any suggestions?
People got duped into buying timeshares in the 80s and 90s. They sounded like a good deal but the reality is a lot different. The timeshares are not “usually” close to main cities. Like I took a trip with a friend that has a timeshare and swapped for one in Mexico. It was way in the south and it took forever to get to attractions plus my friend would not consider “paying” for accomodatins someplace else if the day was getting late. A lot of our limited time was spent in transit so it was not good at all. I am not one to go to the same place every year and as far as my friend, she does not do anything at her regular timeshare any more since she has “seen it all”. So, she stays at the hotel?? If you want to stay in a hotel on your vacation, just go to a hotel in a sunny area close to home!! Save the $$ and time!! Plus going with her was not a deal financially. I could have book accomodations a lot closer to attractions for a lot less.
Yes, we are tired of so many lies and so many scams, I can not believe there is not anything to stop them, this must end soon.
Today only a top 5 is very little, there are so many timeshares complaints that not even we imagined.
What I do not like is that you force yourself to go to the same place or hotel for the rest of your life, I am dogleg and prefer to make the road by walking. It's a matter of taste.
On the other hand, to get rid of vendors anything I do is I tell them I'm a graduate student scholarship and I have not fixed incomes. I have not found a seller or developer of something to hold it.
I agree, everything in timeshares are false, are false promisses.
timeshare are too expensive to keep each year.
I wish we had read this info before we spent $14,000.00 plus maintenance fees each year. We bought the least expensive season, green months. We didn't know that we couldn't exchange for any timeshare. We had to have the 'red' months to go where we wanted to. Due to health problems, we aren't able to travel anymore but try to find a way to sell or just give it back to the contract holders.
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