1999-2001 Survey Results
Section 2. Agents
Have you ever paid an agent to try to sell your timeshare?*
87 of the 192 (45%) of respondents admitted to ever paying an agent to resell their timeshare. Of these responders, 23% had been trying for up to 6 months, 19.5% had been trying between 6 months and one year and 18.4% had been trying for over 3 years.
| Base | Missing | Ever paid an agent to sell your timeshare? | ||||
| No reply | Yes | No | ||||
| Base | 192 | 53 | 87 | 52 | ||
| Missing | No reply | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| 1.6% | 1.9% | - | 3.8% | |||
| Trying to sell for | Not Selling | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | |
| 9.4% | 7.5% | 2.3% | 23.1% | |||
| Up to 1 week | 49 | 23 | 7 | 19 | ||
| 25.5% | 43.4% | 8.0% | 36.5% | |||
| Up to one month | 7 | 5 | 2 | - | ||
| 3.6% | 9.4% | 2.3% | - | |||
| Up to three months | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | ||
| 7.3% | 11.3% | 3.4% | 9.6% | |||
| Up to 6 months | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 8.3% | 9.4% | 10.3% | 3.8% | |||
| Up to 1 year | 31 | 6 | 17 | 8 | ||
| 16.1% | 11.3% | 19.5% | 15.4% | |||
| up to 2 years | 23 | 1 | 21 | 1 | ||
| 12.0% | 1.9% | 24.1% | 1.9% | |||
| up to 3 years | 13 | 1 | 11 | 1 | ||
| 6.8% | 1.9% | 12.6% | 1.9% | |||
| more than 3 years | 19 | 1 | 16 | 2 | ||
| 9.9% | 1.9% | 18.4% | 3.8% | |||
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About 25% of respondents who were trying sell were setting prices at 51-100% below their original asking price. 29% were asking between 31-50% less than their original asking price. |
 Two thirds of respondents who had not used an agent were either not selling or had been trying to sell for up to a year. But there is no direct indication that using an agent will speed up the sale of a timeshare. A fifth of all those who had used an agent at some time had been trying to sell their timeshare for three or more years. Two fifths who had used an agent had been trying to sell for between "just started" and up to 6 months. |
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* Source of Survey - Responders to TimeshareUK.com online survey in the 18 month period ending March 10th 2001.