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A newish ''timeshare watchdog'' that has appeared on the scene is highly questionable to any who know the history of its sponsors.
Some who have been around a while remember the old Crimeshare website, on which consumers could post info on timeshare scammers, whether developers or resellers or anyone else. It was run behind the scenes by officers of the Timeshare Consumers Association of the UK. Some stuff posted was a bit over the top, but it had lots of good info. There was no attempt to censor anything a consumer wanted to post.
Some of the scamming developers who were exposed on Crimeshare were officers of the Organization for Timeshare in Europe (OTE) who got that organization to go to war to try to shut down Crimeshare, using threats of lawsuits from OTE's legal team. In Europe, where free speech is less protected, this intimidation led most if not all timeshare sites to prevent any post regarding Crimeshare on their sites. In the US, however, the laws were more protective of sites, and no site I know of knuckled under to this thuggery by OTE. Indeed, some like The TimeshareBeat / Street Talk were vocal in support of Crimeshare and denounced OTE's despicable censorship.
OTE's legal team also began threatening anyone who hosted Crimeshare's site, and they bounced from server to server. Finally, OTE succeeded in destroying Crimeshare.
Now OTE has changed its name to Resort Developers Organization (RDO) and they are funding an alleged timeshare consumer site called MindTimeshare on the web. As one would expect, it has no info on scamming developers and points all attention only at scamming resell companies and the like. Certainly none of the slimy developers who are accepted into membership at RDO along with the reputable ones would ever find themselves exposed on MindTimeshare site.
Now, there is an effort to expose this phony watchdog:
Mind Timeshare Truth | The Truth is Out There
A watchdog that only barks at one set of threats and not at another is not much of a watchdog. This mutt is firmly on the leash of RDO and will cover up for those members of RDO and probably any other developer which has less than honest business practices.
Some who have been around a while remember the old Crimeshare website, on which consumers could post info on timeshare scammers, whether developers or resellers or anyone else. It was run behind the scenes by officers of the Timeshare Consumers Association of the UK. Some stuff posted was a bit over the top, but it had lots of good info. There was no attempt to censor anything a consumer wanted to post.
Some of the scamming developers who were exposed on Crimeshare were officers of the Organization for Timeshare in Europe (OTE) who got that organization to go to war to try to shut down Crimeshare, using threats of lawsuits from OTE's legal team. In Europe, where free speech is less protected, this intimidation led most if not all timeshare sites to prevent any post regarding Crimeshare on their sites. In the US, however, the laws were more protective of sites, and no site I know of knuckled under to this thuggery by OTE. Indeed, some like The TimeshareBeat / Street Talk were vocal in support of Crimeshare and denounced OTE's despicable censorship.
OTE's legal team also began threatening anyone who hosted Crimeshare's site, and they bounced from server to server. Finally, OTE succeeded in destroying Crimeshare.
Now OTE has changed its name to Resort Developers Organization (RDO) and they are funding an alleged timeshare consumer site called MindTimeshare on the web. As one would expect, it has no info on scamming developers and points all attention only at scamming resell companies and the like. Certainly none of the slimy developers who are accepted into membership at RDO along with the reputable ones would ever find themselves exposed on MindTimeshare site.
Now, there is an effort to expose this phony watchdog:
Mind Timeshare Truth | The Truth is Out There
A watchdog that only barks at one set of threats and not at another is not much of a watchdog. This mutt is firmly on the leash of RDO and will cover up for those members of RDO and probably any other developer which has less than honest business practices.
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