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Direct Timeshare Buyers review: took my funds and never heard from them again 6

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7:40 pm EDT
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do not deal with this company, like the first complaint you see here, a woman named wendy contacted me by phone and told me they had my timeshare in daytona beach florida for bike week #9 of the calendar year. she then transferred me over to a man named anthony aka tony. he is very quick speaking, direct and very believeable. he emailed me a signed letter of intent signed by a buyer, 3 pages long and very authentic looking. i agreed on the offer and antony proceeded to explain the process and said i would recieve a sales contract by fedex on a specific day 3 days from the day we spoke. he even gave an exact time frame on the day i was to get the sales contract. by law he said they must recieve funds that the seller is responsible for. items such as transfer fees for the property title insurance etc. this totalled very close to $300.00. i was to send it western union to one of the owners of their company in the state in which the timeshare is owned. on sunday, the next day, i got a phone call from him saying there was a computer glitch and another $101 was needed or the contract would have to be reviewed by the state and it would delay the sale and the recieving of my money from the sale for 90 days. he is very convincing but quite decietful! i started to ask him questions like their company not having a web site and such. he had agreat answer for all my questions. i started to get leary about this sale but i was already in for $300 and with a letter of intent i went ahead and made a big mistake by sending the rest of the funds. he said he would call me an hour later to get the western union reciept number as we did on the previous day. he gave me an account number to write on the LOI to send back to him. i NEVER heard from him again. they have NOT responded to my numerous calls and emails. i got taken real good! the first complaintant u see here was smarter than i was, but it will never happen again. do not DEAL with this company! i am proceeding with whatever i can do to take legal action. hope this helps someone else!

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bleuze
Los Angeles, US
Jun 12, 2010 3:09 pm EDT

Do not deal with these people. I believe that they just want to get your money and run. Out of the blue, they contacted me saying they had sold my timeshare at Orange Lake. They even sent me a letter of intent signed by a buyer (?).
I was willing to send them money prior to the sale, but stopped when I learned the following:
1. no escrow
2. money, not a certified check, to be transferred to a PRIVATE ACCOUNT.
Neither the company is listed nor the person that was suppose to get the money (I was checking while getting the instructions). I guess that they think everyone is a sucker! Oh, I almost forgot, they hung up on me when I told them that I would not transfer the funds to an individual. Their phone number is: [protected]. They are located at 3945 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA

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Kim A Fox
, US
Aug 02, 2010 3:44 pm EDT

See above, the name now showing on LOI is Timeshare Property Buyers, so they may have changed their name. This was also the name that showed with 1 complaint on BBB site.

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Kim A Fox
, US
Aug 02, 2010 3:39 pm EDT

We just got stung also. Will be filing a complaint with the BBB for Pittsburgh. Not sure what else we can do. Live in CA, so pretty far to go. Hopefully filing with the BBB will put an end to this. If you've been stung and haven't already done so, please file a complaint. It only shows 1 against this company for a 36 month period, so we didn't really think was a big deal...we were wrong. Just happened this weekend. I really didn't think was fraud as it seemed like a lot of work for little payback, not usually the way fraudulant operators work. Same scenario as above tho...call from Wendy, transferred to Tony, offered more than we paid. The interesting thing is that he had our cell phone numbers, e-mail, and the name of our timeshare, so he got info from a website. I had sent a message to one about 12-18 months ago just to see what process was to sell, but never heard from anybody at that site. Just wish I could remember what site it was as that would be a site to track these people maybe.

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mal341
Scottsdale, US
Aug 02, 2010 10:34 am EDT

very similar to me as well. received the phone call on my cell and they knew my info. said that a rep would be calling me the next day. after he called me back 3 days later, he offered 15, 700 for my timeshare. this is WAY more than the worth, so i got his name, phone number (it comes up unknown on my cell), company name, etc and searched online. this is the only place i found his name. i wasnt exactly sure where he was going to get his money so i played along and had him send me the contract. i think my 5 year old could have put together a more convincing piece of work. the guy is an a--hole on the phone and very arrogant for someone trying to make a "sale". he then called me back and asked the city and state my timeshare is in. So you have a buyer offering an exhorbant amount of money but you dont even know the area of the COUNTRY it is in? nice...

The information here is very accurate. i told this tony guy what i found, he was "unaware" of any ill feelings against his company. i asked him to look it up and call me back. as you can expect, no call back.

take my word on this, this is a scam to take a little money from your pocket so you just chalk it up as a small loss. dont even go down this road.

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tennisnut
Clifton, US
Jul 09, 2010 11:16 pm EDT
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Thank you all for your feedback. I was almost convinced until Tony said he needed the money sent through Western Union. That sent up a BIG, RED FLAG!
Even though approx $300. may not seem like much to some people, it would have been devastating to me right now. I'm grateful to everyone who shared their experience & I truly hope you are successful in getting your money back from this low-life!

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pssssd off
LACONA, US
Jun 17, 2010 7:15 pm EDT

We just got stung this afternoon by these same people. That address in Pittsburgh is the UPS Store. I did a little research (too little, too late) and found home addresses on the 2 people that stung me. I found a home phone number on Tony Gaines. Go to whitepages.com and type their names and city, state and you would be amazed at what you find.