Concert Pianist Loses $1,600 To Timeshare Reseller

(MCT)

Madeleine Forte of Hamden now knows she’s one of the thousands of people who handed money blindly to Global Resort Management to sell a timeshare.

“There were 4,000 idiots like me who gave them money,” she says.

Forte, a concert pianist, and her husband Allen, a retired professor of music theory at Yale, no longer use their two timeshare weeks at Divi Village Golf & Beach Resort in Aruba. As far back as January 2011 they were so eager to sell that when someone from Global Resort of Orlando, Fla., cold-called them, they listened.

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