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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OUR MEMBERS:

Please be advised that over the past few years we have had many of our members query us about calls they receive at home offering to resell their timeshare, or stating that they have a buyer for their week and all the member needs to do is send a few hundred pounds off to a bank account (usually in Spain) and within a few weeks time they will receive a cheque for a figure that surely sounds "too good to be true".

Suffice it to say, that if you receive a direct marketing call to your home or work, suggesting that they have a client that is waiting to buy your week in a timeshare resort, then there is every chance that this is part of a scam. Please do not send any money to anyone calling you and saying that they have a buyer for your timeshare, nor should you send them your signed deeds.


The O.T.E. (Organisation for Timeshare in Europe) is a trade body that most successful timeshare operators in Europe belong to. They have a code of ethics for all their members, including any Timeshare Resale companies.

Their Code of Ethics states:

O.T.E. MEMBERS RESALE CODE

Resale O.T.E. Members should clearly disclose to seller and buyer, as appropriate, the relevant obligations and rights of all parties to the resale marketing, sales and conveyance transactions, including but not limited to the Resale Member and the seller and buyer of the timeshare interest.

Resale members must offer buyers of resale timeshare interests the same benefits of cooling-off period and protection of advance payments as are offered to other buyers of timeshare interests or as otherwise provided by the Law.
Resale Members may not directly nor through a third party make unsolicited contact, via telephone, fax or mail, with timeshare owners on what is, or may be construed to be, a cold call approach aimed at inducing such owners to permit the resale organisation to act as their selling agent.

Resale Members may not directly or indirectly solicit a fee from a vendor by falsely representing that there is a purchaser ready, willing and able to acquire the vendor's timeshare.

Resale Members are not permitted to take any form of mandatory upfront payments for the listing, marketing and sale of any timeshare interest.

For more information, please see the O.T.E. web site at: www.ote-info.com
 

Calling all budding writers!

The industry trade body, OTE (Organisation for Timeshare in Europe) and TATOC (The Timeshare Association) are launching a competition for all European based timeshare owners this summer.

Submit an article* of around 500-800 words about what you love about your timeshare to win our top prize of £150, with second and third prizes of £75 and £50 respectively. The star prize winner will have their story featured in the first printed edition of the new consumer magazine, Owners Perspective - www.ownersperspective.com - in January of next year.

You might want to write about the exciting locations you have been to, why your resort is so special to you, your holiday adventures .… the choice is yours.

Your article should be emailed to Sue McNicol on smcnicol@btinternet.com no later than 30th September, together with your full name, country of residence and details of where you own.

*Articles submitted may also be used in full or in part in media releases, on the OTE and TATOC web sites and may also be featured in the exchange company magazines. The judges´ decision is final and no further correspondence will be entered into. The winners will contacted by email.

 
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