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by eric-hu 633 days ago
When you say "to supposedly help", do you mean they actually help, or this industry is also scammers?

Asking because someone in my extended family owns a timeshare and got scammed with an exit offer. It sounded similar to the timeshare pitch itself.

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I am very sorry to hear that and I hope they can properly escape this situation.

Maybe my opinion is biased (the media generally does not publish "everythibg is a-OK" articles), but my perception of the timeshare escape industry is that they are sketchy too.

I think this Last Week Tonight episode is very informative on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM