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I wonder how much money these scams net. Even if this outfit is fully owned and operated by a scuzzy timeshare company, do they really make enough money to jus
by audozeawayy 4y ago
I wonder how much money these scams net.
Even if this outfit is fully owned and operated by a scuzzy timeshare company, do they really make enough money to justify the $1500/~=22 marks?
The article only mentions people being contacted by the timeshare company, but I wonder if they might sell the info as a secondary revenue stream, especially given the waiver which claims to override federal do-not-call lists.
How much would one packet of contact info+metadata sell for, if the subject has signed on to be contacted by advertisers?
- aninteger 4y ago> How much would one packet of contact info+metadata sell for, if the subject has signed on to be contacted by advertisers? LendingTree.com was charging $70 per "lead", this was 2018 or so, not sure how prices have changed since then. However this was on the high end, zillow.com, also sold leads but for quite a bit lower (although you got what you paid for).
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- urbandw311er 4y agoThe 22 marks was in an hour and the $1.5k was rental for a whole day.
- audozeawayy 4y agoOh, I misread. Sounds like a good scam, if aninteger's $70/lead number is accurate.
- paulgb 4y ago> do they really make enough money to justify the $1500/~=22 marks I was wondering the same, but one thing that helps the math in their favor a bit was that the 22 was in one hour on a weekday afternoon. I imagine it’s higher on weekends and evenings.
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- Spooky23 4y agoYes. Timeshare sales orgs make a boat-ton of money. The average punter isn’t capable of doing the math to compute that a timeshare is among the worst deals anywhere.
- adrr 4y agoOr to search for the same timeshare that they can buy for a fraction of the price. Even better is just not buying one and just renting one a usually little more than the maintenance fee.