Anyone have any dealings with Innovative Timeshare Resorts or Innovative Resorts International

jayjay wrote:

neiln3 wrote:

Sharp Innivations offers a money back garentee if the don't sell your timeshare in 6 months timeframe. They sound legit. Has anyone had dealings with this outfit?

nnsellhi@aol.com

When the 6 months is up they'll tell you that they'll keep listing it until they find a buyer (there will be no buyer). All they want is your upfront fee and they may even ask for more money to extend the listing.

It is so sad that people still believe these scammers and liars. The only way to sell a timeshare is through advertising on sites like Redweek or through a licensed real estate agent that gets paid when the unit is sold.

judikoz wrote:

jayjay wrote:

neiln3 wrote:

Sharp Innivations offers a money back garentee if the don't sell your timeshare in 6 months timeframe. They sound legit. Has anyone had dealings with this outfit?

nnsellhi@aol.com

When the 6 months is up they'll tell you that they'll keep listing it until they find a buyer (there will be no buyer). All they want is your upfront fee and they may even ask for more money to extend the listing.

It is so sad that people still believe these scammers and liars. The only way to sell a timeshare is through advertising on sites like Redweek or through a licensed real estate agent that gets paid when the unit is sold.

Yes, it's sad that so many people can be so vunerable to scams this day and time especially with the world at their fingertips via computers and the internet .... even if they don't own a computer they can go to the nearest library and research all the scams concerning upfront fee resale companies BEFORE they even consider giving them their credit card # .... the info concerning these scams is all over the internet.

Yes, it's sad that so many people can be so vunerable to scams this day and time especially with the world at their fingertips via computers and the internet .... even if they don't own a computer they can go to the nearest library and research all the scams concerning upfront fee resale companies BEFORE they even consider giving them their credit card # .... the info concerning these scams is all over the internet.

Timesharing Today is working to have the Home Owners Associations put printed material in the hands of the people who don't have access to computers that will explain these scams to them. The Developers and Associations really need to step up to the plate so that the scams will stop. We have seen a slow down in Florida since the State is being so active in arrests. We are pushing for jail time for all of them.

Too late - I fell for the same scam and I should have known better. Spoke to Eric who told me that if they, and they being Innovative, didn't sell my timeshare w/in 120 days, I would get my money back. Well, imagine to my surprise when I read the fine print and it said my money will only be returned after closing. My fault - I should have read "everything" on the contract, but it is amazing how these companies can get away w/ fraud!!!!!

ds241 wrote:

Too late - I fell for the same scam and I should have known better. Spoke to Eric who told me that if they, and they being Innovative, didn't sell my timeshare w/in 120 days, I would get my money back. Well, imagine to my surprise when I read the fine print and it said my money will only be returned after closing. My fault - I should have read "everything" on the contract, but it is amazing how these companies can get away w/ fraud!!!!!

What a upfront fee resale company tells you over the phone and what's in the written contract are two different things .... the only thing legally binding is what's in the written contract.

Yes, but reputable companies will tell you EVERYTHING upfront, and that is one of the many reasons I should have known better!!!! Innovative is a scam just like all of the rest!

DON'T DO IT. I have been scammed by time share sales companies twice before and feel I was ready for anything but like an idiot fell for their very well done sales pitch. Tell me if this sounds familiar (which is why I was sold...again). "New York has laws that protect the consumer" "We have a buyer in place that we got by combing the area outside your time share offering a financing deal for the buyers that they could not qualify for inside (this is the one that sold me)" "You will receive 100% of the cost required back paid by the buyers for us to do a title search" etc... Basically, this company had rehearsed it's pitch so well that I thought I would take a chance considering they allowed me to use my credit card for the transaction as opposed to paying by money order or cashiers check. After the inevitable waiting period (90 days) to allow time for the title search and "final" credit approval for the buyers the time period to demand a credit from my credit card company had passed.

Here's what I did and it worked out well for me. I demanded copies of the title search and blacked out documentation that they did in fact do all the things they said they did with the proposed buyers. At this point I entered the endless stall tactics, no return calls, and a requirement to contact another department that I could never get through to.

I now had an option to go with by having my credit card company research a products not rendered complaint. They tried the same thing and after Innovative would not comply to their requests for the same I got a 100% refund for my purchase. Yeah!!!

I also agree with another poster that this is the same company that was banned in Florida for their practices. Of course there is no way to prove this but basically as has been said, "if they charge an up-front fee it is probably not legit".

So, if sounds too good to be true then... well you know the rest.

I (stupidly) signed conract with Innovative Resorts in March 2011, and essentially have lost my money ($2899). I was desparate to sell my HIlton Head timeshare, and the rep Vince James seemed to know what he was talking about. He was slick. Does anyone have ideas of a way to get my money back? They don't have a working phone #, and their website is not working. I am angry at myself for falling for this stupid scam. Vickie

The only way to try to get your money back is to file a complaint with the Attorney General in your state. Good luck.

donp196 wrote:

The only way to try to get your money back is to file a complaint with the Attorney General in your state. Good luck.

Actually, it should be the state where the scam outfit is located although I guess it wouldn't hurt to file one with the A-G of the state where you live.

lancec13

donp196 wrote:

The only way to try to get your money back is to file a complaint with the Attorney General in your state. Good luck.

You should file a complaint in the State you live in, the State the scammer is in and the State the timeshare is in. If they have a real estate license you should go after their license. If they have a real estate license there is a fund to help people that have been scammed.

jayjay wrote:

neiln3 wrote:

Sharp Innivations offers a money back garentee if the don't sell your timeshare in 6 months timeframe. They sound legit. Has anyone had dealings with this outfit?

nnsellhi@aol.com

When the 6 months is up they'll tell you that they'll keep listing it until they find a buyer (there will be no buyer). All they want is your upfront fee and they may even ask for more money to extend the listing.

My mother listed her timeshare with sharp innovations. She listed 3 months ago. In 3 months she has not heard from them once. She has called several times and can not reach her sales agent or the inventory director. She spoke with both before she gave her credit card number. She complained and tried to cancelbut was told she has to wait the 6 months. I am calling her credit card company tomorrow. If she waits six months to see if the refund comes it will be to late to call visa. Sharp innovations is a scam. They said they would be at a Daytona Beach event. I went looking for them and they were not there! So on our way home from vacation we stopped in at their office in Atlanta. Except it was't their officeatall. Theman there told us they just forward the mail to sharp innovations at a FL address but would not give us the address. SCAM SCAM SCAM DO NOT GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD TO THIS COMPANY.

SCAM! Followed the guidelines to the T.....initial response after my 6 month contract was that I had not send in my request in a timely fashion....I emailed them copy of the "mail receipt" proving that my request had been received within their time requirement. I was told that they would resubmit my request......have not heard from them by phone or email for 4 months now....now no one will return my calls or emails.....SCAM! Beware and AVOID~!!! Anyone else in this boat....email me, maybe we can go a class/group suit (one person would be too expensive....but many might be cost-effective to get a lawyer to serve them....let me know if you are interested. edaniels615@gmail.com

edwardg145 wrote:

SCAM! Followed the guidelines to the T.....initial response after my 6 month contract was that I had not send in my request in a timely fashion....I emailed them copy of the "mail receipt" proving that my request had been received within their time requirement. I was told that they would resubmit my request......have not heard from them by phone or email for 4 months now....now no one will return my calls or emails.....SCAM! Beware and AVOID~!!! Anyone else in this boat....email me, maybe we can go a class/group suit (one person would be too expensive....but many might be cost-effective to get a lawyer to serve them....let me know if you are interested. edaniels615@gmail.com

What you can do TODAY is file a complaint with the attorney general of GA. He is very good about going after scammers. You can file this complaint online by googling contact info for the GA AG. I filed a complaint once on a scam out of GA and it was immediately taken care of by the AG.

I was recently contacted by a company called Innovative Resort Marketing who are based in Hartford, CT. Is this a new manifestation or sister company of the Jericho based Innovative Timeshare Resorts / Innovative Resorts International, or is it just an unfortunate similarity of name? During the initial cold call contact I had been dismissive stating I was not interested in anything that would cost me upfront money as the seller but they assured me that nothing was required upfront and that they have a pool of corporate and international buyers and work purely on results (they take 7% of the sale proceeds). So I saw no harm in giving them the details of one of my weeks and they said they would get back in touch with me with either a status update (still listed, no interest yet) or details of an interested buyer.

I recently received phone notification of the latter and a resale contract (awaiting my signature) via email. This all sounded too good to be true so as part of my exercising due diligence and researching this company before putting my John Hancock to anything I found this thread. What concerns me about this company is that there are too many similarities with other details reported here for ITR and IRI. Similarity of names aside, the buyer is a Mexican corporation and there have been phone issues WRT people not being able to contact them (I only know that because they apologized for it in advance to alleviate any concerns I might have had in case I had been trying to contact them myself).

So far I have not paid anything nor been asked to pay anything, but I suspect that boot is yet to fall, and I would like to be forewarned and forearmed if and when it does. So does anyone know of a connection between these 3 companies? BTW, IRM have a website (http://innovativeresortmarketing.com/content/our-company) and marketing videos on YouTube (here's a link to one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_e13QSxXOk).

Thanks in advance for any information that is posted that will help.

It's a scam. They will claim that you have to pay some sort of " fee " before the transaction can be completed. This is the new Nigerian lottery scam only using timeshare sales as the bait. Don't sign anything and you won't be ripped off.

raymondc95 wrote:

Similarity of names aside, the buyer is a Mexican corporation and there have been phone issues WRT people not being able to contact them (I only know that because they apologized for it in advance to alleviate any concerns I might have had in case I had been trying to contact them myself).

Red flag #! .... corporations don't buy timeshares .... Red flag #2 .... you haven't been able to contact them ..... any entities that cold calls you out of the blue with a timeshare deal are scams .... scams are rampant in the timeshare industry.

"Red flag #! .... corporations don't buy timeshares .... Red flag #2 .... you haven't been able to contact them"

Actually, you are wrong, corporations DO buy timeshares (as executive perks), although corporations are frequently cited as the potential buyers in the scam offers. Also, where in my post did I state that I haven't been able to contact IRM? I have had no problem as yet in contacting them ... I only stated that their apology to me (in passing) that they were having phone issues with regard to others looked potentially suspicious.

I did not make my post in order to solicit uninformed speculation from others ... I'm quite capable of coming up with my own uninformed speculation about this company. I do not have access to BBB and Dunn & Bradstreet type resources. I was hoping that based on the info. I provided above someone else (who did have such access) might be able to confirm a definite connection between IRM and ITR and IRI based on commonality of office location or personnel, etc. I'm looking for useful FACTS (which, if they are posted here, will in turn help others reading this thread) NOT potentially libelous speculative opinions about IRM.