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Complaints about time shares top the list of consumer complaints to far this year. More than 85 hundred since January. Most complaints involve scam artists offering to help sell a time share. Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson says they ask for a fifteen hundred dollar retainer, then disappear. “What happens” says Bronson, “is you pay the the fifteen hundred and what they say is the buyer backed out, or we’ll have to try and get another buyer. and you never hear from them again. The rip off artists get the 15 hundred, the person wanting to sell loses 15 hundred, they don’t get to sell their time share and they are still in economic mess 15 hundred dollars further in debt.”

Over the last week, Bronson, along with Attorney General Bill McCollum cracked down on time share scam artists, issuing 137 cease and desist orders, arresting four and issuing fines of one hundred twenty five thousand dollars.