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by vkou 637 days ago
They are all scams, because they all lock you into a single-vendor maintenance contract that can charge you anything they want, that you can never get out of.

Theoretically you can run a non-scammy timeshare, but why would you, when running a scam is the same work but so much more lucrative? The lemons push out the good ones in this market.

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> They are all scams, because they all lock you into a single-vendor maintenance contract that can charge you anything they want, that you can never get out of.

This is simply factually incorrect. While I myself would never own a timeshare because it just would never make sense for me, some timeshare contracts are for limited lengths (e.g. 20 years) and maintenance fees are capped.