timeshares

Buying a timeshare property may have seemed like a good idea when you signed the timeshare contract. But if you're taking yet another "staycation" this summer – and really haven't been able to travel as much as you'd like the rest of the year as well – you may have realized that you...

A telemarketing scam that swindled timeshare owners trying to unload their properties has been temporarily shut down by a federal court. The temporary restraining order, issued at the Federal Trade Commission's request, names Florida-based Vacation Property Services, Inc.; Vacation Property...

A well-educated, normally astute consumer recently related a story of $160 in unexplained charges on his American Express Gold Card. He found himself on the hook for subscriptions to magazines -- published by American Express -- that he couldn't remember ordering.That's because he didn't -- or did...