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Whilst we note that some former salesmen are now creating secondary, profitable businesses by reinventing themselves as organizations who can get your money back from mis sold timeshares, etc. There are others who are preying on the timeshare members yet again with their dodgy reselling sites and their nasty "we will get you released," for a huge fee, cold calling set ups.
Ok most of us can avoid a lot of this but what we cannot avoid is industry change taking place such as we see in certain developers where the changes are made that are yet again disadvantaging their members and forcing them into even more onerous contracts by changing their constitutions.
Changes are needed but they have to be balanced towards the consumers if timeshare is to repair the damage it has done to itself.
The salesmen. We can do nothing about as consumers, other than report financial abuse to Action Fraud or The Trading Standards. They are not overly bothered about the reputation that they and some developers are responsible for creating as this is their last scam. "They intend to make enough money out of this one to retire." They never do make enough however as they waste it away on living the high life and so move on to another scam.
The developers are companies that we can do something about by banding together and lobbying authorities to act against what can only be seen as bad practices in the timeshare industry. These developers may be large but they are in a minority and they are bringing further ruin on the already poor reputation of the industry. So we can give these selfish developers maximum negative publicity whenever we hear of events or constitutional changes. It matters not whether it is deemed as being within the law. Timeshare is very much a service industry and as such it is not always about the law it is about the spirit and goodwill that is required to uphold reputations in this service industry.
Ok most of us can avoid a lot of this but what we cannot avoid is industry change taking place such as we see in certain developers where the changes are made that are yet again disadvantaging their members and forcing them into even more onerous contracts by changing their constitutions.
Changes are needed but they have to be balanced towards the consumers if timeshare is to repair the damage it has done to itself.
The salesmen. We can do nothing about as consumers, other than report financial abuse to Action Fraud or The Trading Standards. They are not overly bothered about the reputation that they and some developers are responsible for creating as this is their last scam. "They intend to make enough money out of this one to retire." They never do make enough however as they waste it away on living the high life and so move on to another scam.
The developers are companies that we can do something about by banding together and lobbying authorities to act against what can only be seen as bad practices in the timeshare industry. These developers may be large but they are in a minority and they are bringing further ruin on the already poor reputation of the industry. So we can give these selfish developers maximum negative publicity whenever we hear of events or constitutional changes. It matters not whether it is deemed as being within the law. Timeshare is very much a service industry and as such it is not always about the law it is about the spirit and goodwill that is required to uphold reputations in this service industry.
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