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Everything happens at least twice. There actually is an established industry to supposedly help folks get out of timeshares.



When you say "to supposedly help", do you mean they actually help, or this industry is also scammers?

Asking because someone in my extended family owns a timeshare and got scammed with an exit offer. It sounded similar to the timeshare pitch itself.


I am very sorry to hear that and I hope they can properly escape this situation.

Maybe my opinion is biased (the media generally does not publish "everythibg is a-OK" articles), but my perception of the timeshare escape industry is that they are sketchy too.

I think this Last Week Tonight episode is very informative on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM


Also, there are plenty of scams in that same industry.

Timeshares: not even once.




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