Complaint Review: Superior Timeshare Buyers

Received a call from some woman at this company on Monday 9/6/10 stating they were a property locator company and that they had a buyer for our timeshare. She then had her "account manager" Mark Hanson call me back with all the details. When I first talked to Mark he seemed very legit and really nice. He then went on to tell me that they had a buyer interested in purchasing my timeshare. He said that he had until the 11th to get a buyer or he would lose the money he was given by the buyers. Everything he told me seemed to be on the up and up and he even e-mailed me a letter of intent signed by the so called buyers Donna and Marshall Stewart. When I asked him how much this would cost me, he said all it would cost was $99 for the Title Search and $47.18 for the State and County Transfer Taxes....this seemed legit enough for me to believe seeing that I have been burnt in the past by other timeshare resellers. It was when he said I had to go to a western union and wire the money over to a person named Eduardo Albrecht from Daytona Beach, Fl who was supposedly one of the owners of this company, that I should have seen the automatic red flags!! I was just so thrilled that we were going to be able to sell our timeshare that we have been trying to sell for years, that it didn't even phase me. Like an idiot I went out to the store and wired the money over to this eduardo along with the $12 money transfer fee. I should have also been tipped off when Mark kept calling me every 5 minutes asking me if I sent the money yet, and telling me that I had to send the money today or the sale would be lost. Again, I was just so happy to be getting rid of the timeshare, none of these obvious red flags set off any alarm bells for me.

After I sent the money, I got Mark on the phone and he said ok well the transfer fees came back well but the title search fee had changed and there was an additional $28 to be sent out, he said if I didn't want to do it then he would refund me back the money, but I figured oh well its just an additional $30 and I will be getting it all back anyways once I get the money from the sale. So of course I said ok and sent it on out to him. He then told me that within a couple of days I would be getting the contracts for the sale by fed ex that i would then have to go and get notarized and then sent back out to him. Once he received the signed and notarized contracts he would close the sale with the buyers and my money for the sale would be sent out to me by the following week the latest.

Needless to say that I never received the Fed Ex package he claimed I would and he has not returned any of my phone calls or e-mails I have been sending him. So after doing some more research in which I should have done in the beginning, I found out that this company is a crock and run by all crooks. If you do a google map location search for the address they have, it will show you where the address is and there is no such company there. They also go by Property Timeshare Buyers and that name is the way they come up as scam artists, they must have just changed their names to Superior Timeshare Buyers because you can't find anything about them.

If you get a call, HANG UP ON THEM!!! They will STEAL your money!! I admit I was an idiot for being taken by this crook and should have known better, but I guess when you are desperate for money, you will believe almost anything. Please BE CAREFUL and spread the word around about these scumbags!!!!!!!!!!! Don't make the same stupid mistake I did!!!!