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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: refund listing fees from fraud sellmytimesharenow.com (by KC):
leiaw2 wrote:If it is illegal for them to be giving advice on the prices of the timeshares then their website soliciting message:” Owners: how much is your timeshare worth? Find out for free” would be an evidence of them breaking the law, wouldn’t it?
No, not by a long shot.
It is "illegal" to engage in real estate practices without a real estate license (a license which SMTN does not have). However, If SMTN simply shares price information regarding other existing listings for the same "product", or provides price information on transactions already closed, SMTN would merely be sharing information which is actually readily available to anyone willing to do the research. This is distinctly different from specifically "recommending" a listing price to a SMTN customer, which would be crossing the line as pertains to real estate licensure requirements.
I have no use for SMTN and I believe that it's just a crying shame that people willingly (and continuously) fork over such big bucks to place a listing on an obscure (and nearly useless) web site that will rarely yield any results at all, but what SMTN does is not illegal. If what SMTN does was "illegal", they would have been put out of business years ago. Not only are they still in business, but their business is clearly thriving.